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We're a nation with a 15-second attention span.

So you feel the breath one or two breaths, and then your mind wanders away.

You think about what you have to do tomorrow and the next day and what somebody said to you

and your plans and your car and your family and your bank account and your body and, you know,

your garden and the traffic and all these things and all of a sudden, oh, I was being with the breath.

So you have to bring the puppy back, as we say,

or St. Francis the sails, bring the heart back a thousand times, though it wanders each time,

just coming back each time, training the puppy. The dog runs after the stick or the car,

something, come on back here. Okay, next breath.

You don't have to beat the dog or, you know, be abusive to the puppy. Just bring it back,

put it back down, stay again. And gradually, the very process of coming back over and over a thousand times

is the meditation itself.

That's the movement of resuming our true nature, just returning.

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