Someone has written me something which is very true: that when one begins, one has no reason to stop, one begins with one hour a day, but this becomes a kind of necessity, a habit and one continues quite naturally.
If your exercise truly has this result, then it will be an excellent thing.
We can select three things from what I have read this evening. The first is that you must persist in what you do if you want to get a result. The Dhammapada tells us, for example, that if you have a mantra and do not repeat it sufficiently, there is no use in having it and that if you are inattentive, you lose the benefit of vigilance, and that if you do not continue in the good habits that you acquire, they are useless—that is to say, you must persevere. As for example, with the exercise which I asked you to do last time; I asked you to do it with the idea that if you form the habit of doing it, that will help you much in overcoming your difficulties.
[The Mother: CWM 3]
