This is the highest blessing. Many years ago, we brought one of our early teachers over from India and took him around to different centers in the country. He said, It is wonderful, all that is happening here in the West. But there is something about practitioners in the West that reminds me of people sitting in a boat. They are rowing and they are rowing with great earnestness and sincerity, but they refuse to untie the boat from the docks.
People are a little bit like that here.
But what we do all week long affects how we feel when we sit down on Sunday morning to meditate. If our week s existence has been fragmented, it s going to affect what we call our meditation. It s not separate. So we look with a lot of care at all these different elements of life. To live in a suitable place, And to have done good deeds in the past, Having a proper goal for oneself.