Tricycle Daily Dharma May 9, 2013

Maintaining a Steady Practice Now if the practice is so good for us, why is it so difficult to maintain a steady practice? It may be that the notion that practice is 'good for us' is the very impediment—we all know how we can resist what is good for us at the table, at the gym, and on the Internet. This mechanical notion of practice, 'if I practice, then I will be (fill in the blank),' leads to discouragement because it is not true that practice inevitably leads to happiness or anything that we can imagine.   - Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara, "Like a Dragon in Water"