Don't Put Yourself On Trial

How diligently are you practicing? How steady is your mind? Are these questions useful? And why do we even ask them? I was asking myself these questions all the time. Kind of relentlessly. Then a teacher asked me why I was putting myself on trial.

That's exactly what I was doing.

We do want to be diligent and we do want to steady our minds. But let's not put ourselves on trial. Or at least let's talk about that, in this episode.