Tricycle's Daily Dharma: August 24, 2007
Boredom, Impatience, and Fear
If we do a little
of one kind of practice and a little of another, the work we have done
in one often doesn't continue to build as we change to the next. It is
as if we were to dig many shallow wells instead of one deep one. In
continually moving from one approach to another, we are never forced to
face our own boredom, impatience, and fears. We are never brought face
to face with ourselves. So we need to choose a way of practice that is
deep and ancient and connected with our hearts, and then make a
commitment to follow it as long as it takes to transform ourselves.
-Jack Kornfield in A Path with Heartfrom Everyday
Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book
