All of us experience difficulties in our lives. Sickness, aging, death, financial problems, difficult relationships. At such times, our greatest need is often not the quelling of the problem, but quieting the doubt within our hearts. This is where faith in the way is needed. The test of true faith is to go on believing and trusting even while a storm outside is raging.
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He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other — take it that such a one has attained perfection–Bhagavad-Gita.
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Q- What can motivate me to practice regularly? Dave- Austin, TX
A- If you want to be liberated from suffering and become one with the Tao, it requires full time dedication. Not part-time, not when it is convenient, or when you feel like it, but a commitment to your practice. Anything less will be less than satisfying- Roshi Hogan
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