JOCO says the minute something's wrong, we run to the doctor and see if we can't get a quick quick fix. This is one of the reasons antibiotics are so overused that they're losing their effectiveness. Western culture tells us that if something does not please us, that if it feels disturbing or wrong to us, it should have an immediate antidote. I had a student from Nebraska tell me that she didn't know what was wrong with her meditation practice. But for the last two weeks, she had felt sort of down. She really didn't feel bubbly like she liked to feel. So what's wrong with the practice? Nothing, absolutely nothing. What's wrong with feeling down for a few weeks. I'm not talking about a major depression here. As human beings, our emotions are constantly shifting, sometimes within a week, a day, an hour or a moment, we may be going along fine. And then suddenly, there's a dip, our spirits rise and fall. We know this. And yet in the moment we get alarmed. Oh, it's all going to shit. We may know intellectually, that we can't have the light without the darkness. And we can't have up without down. But when it comes to our own thoughts and emotions, we want to live full time in the light. We think there's something wrong with us, or our meditation practice. If we can't make everything feel just fine. But this misconstrues the purpose of practice, practice isn't about making things fine. It's about seeing that life is an alteration all the time, life and death, winter and summer, confusion and clarity. No matter who we are and what we do. We will experience these fluctuations, these highs and lows. There is nothing wrong with us. We don't practice meditation, to make things all better. The purpose is not to get to the up. We think if we could do it, right, we can get to a happy positive place and stay there would that be a great place to be? Not necessarily?