And Jo Gu says, for those of us who are patient and determined in our practice, Joy increases peace increases the ability to live a beneficial and compassionate life increases and the life which can be hurt by the whims of outside circumstances suddenly alters. This slowly transforming life is not, however, a life of no problems. They will be there for a time. Our life may feel worse than before, as what we have concealed becomes clear, but even as. This occurs, we have a growing sense, a sense of growing sanity and understanding of basic satisfaction. Our contentment grows, and our enthusiasm for practice increases, our ability to be in the moment, not thinking about being in the moment, but just there, responding, doing what comes next, non abiding, not stuck anywhere. She says, to continue practice through severe difficulties, you must have patience, persistence and courage. Why? Because our usual mode of living, one of seeking happiness, battling to fulfill desires, struggling to avoid mental and physical pain, is always undermined by determined practice. We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are, not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life, not in avoiding pain, but in being pain when It is necessary to do so, too large in order, too Hard. On the contrary, it is the easy way you