It is to strengthen this faith that you study books rather than simply do your practices. Study brings you a deeper understanding of why you meditate and what to expect. When you read other people’s stories of a meditative life you get a sense of the possibilities for your own. These inspirations can generate sufficient faith to override the difficult moments in meditation. Understanding feeds your faith. Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time – just as there does in the development of any skill – when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence. Often you...goo.gl/Lhdhmg
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