discovery and can create illusion and frustration.
        For the time being, put aside your fears, anxieties, guilts
and worries, and give all your attention to understanding the
author’s instructions to you. Repeat the meditation exercise
by yourself many times a day, at least three if possible, es-
pecially first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
        Careful: do not try to analyze why it works. There is
a vast difference between concern and worry, analysis and
understanding.
        If you listen very carefully and do as you are told, you
will experience periods of well-being and then periods of
doubt, thoughts such as “Will it last?” or “Am I kidding my-
self?” Take advantage of your increased awareness to observe
this out of your thinking. Be attentive in this special way and
you will come to understand many things effortlessly.
Analysis always substitutes for understanding and leads to
worry and doubt, and doubt in turn will lead to confusion,
emotion, depression and despair.
        Although you cannot make yourself believe, you can
observe the demon of doubt out of existence. You will see
what is meant by this as you meditate.
        Do not wait until you feel like doing your exercise; do
it religiously. The object of the exercise, you see, is to lead
the way you feel. Our feelings have subtle ways of talking
to us and blocking us from doing what is wise. Therefore,
if there is only one thing you must make yourself do, let it
be to meditate. Once you have gotten past the mysterious
reluctance and the resistance, you will be glad you did.
        Be careful the exercise does not become a mechanical
thing. Do it each time as if it were the very first time, so that

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