Conditioning

When I walk, my body starts to walk itself after I have gone a certain distance. For the first ten minutes or so, I can feel the effort in the movement, but then, it just opens up and the effort is gone. My body seems to think, "Oh, THIS is what you want to do !" and does it for me. The body itself seems to develop a memory.

Complaint becomes easy when we surround ourselves with complainers. Meditation becomes a joy when we practice every day. Drawing becomes effortless when we commit ourselves to it.

The trick is to make all this work for us rather than against us.

Think not lightly of good, saying,
"It will not come to me."
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the wise man,
gathering it little by little,
fills himself with good.
 -- Dhammapada 122 --