FAN IT AND COOL IT (PDF-1324)

A quote from an old Willie Nelson song that my good friend Drew Howard drilled into

me; this article is about what happens when we do get a little glimpse of what is beyond

our own self.

Dharma practice is just that, practice, a learning curve. Successful dharma practice is

like the proverbial tar baby, the more we struggle with it, the more we are stuck just

where we are. In all truth, dharma practice is learning to relax enough until our mental

straightjacket gives us up of its own accord. We can't force ourselves to rest, but we can

learn to just let our mind rest. The result is that we are eventually freed up. Yet there is

one major side issue I want to discuss and that is stabilizing our progress.