Shi Heng Yi

Similar like military structure.

What is the whole idea of this?

that you take from whoever joins the structure, you take away the necessity to even think about what needs to be done.

What needs to be done, it's written on the plan.

So what is your job actually to learn at some point?

Because let's just imagine you would come as a visitor and join us a little bit in the temple and you have your daily structure here already.

So it's very likely that if you come, you're not going to like that schedule.

You still feel tired in the morning.

Nevertheless, it's wake up time.

You don't feel like doing the training, but it's training time.

And so what you are being faced with all the time is with your thoughts.

All the time your body is living the structure, but your mind is having a lot of resistance against it.

So are you free?

No.

You are enslaved by the mind.

But after some time, when you start to literally give up your resistance, which happens by consistency,

First week, you still fight against the schedule.

Second week, you might even feel like, oh, cool.

Actually, it's not so bad.

Third week, fourth week, you actually start to really go into the structure, surrender into the structure.