Learning is like going upstream in a boat: if we do not advance, we fall back. It is the same with cultivation; if we do not progress, we regress.
What is progress?
It is doing one more good thing today than we did yesterday.
Cultivation is giving up that which has little value to attain that which is invaluable.
It is turning away from our incorrect ideas to those that are awakened.
Cultivating oneself is teaching others. It is not asking, why aren’t they doing more to help?”
But, “Why aren’t I?”
Cultivation takes courage.
When goaded, it takes courage not to fight back.
When about to act, it takes courage to honestly examine our motives.
Cultivation is realizing that it is our duty in everything we do, to do our best with what we have. No excuses. No complaints.
Achievement in our cultivation is to be able to improve an adverse situation rather than be affected by it.
Cultivation takes work.
It takes the confidence that the work is worth the effort.
Just like everything worthwhile.
Ven. Wuling
Cats who teach me to fly... 
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