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Listening to an interview today the teacher Matthew Brensilver said something that I thought shed some light on the idea to not get hung up on meditation progress. He said your meditation practice is none of your business. It was a kind of Zenny clever way of putting it, but he explained its kind of like doing bicep curls and constantly checking to see if your muscles are getting bigger. It happens slowly and almost imperceptibly, with exercise we see enough examples to have confidence that it will work. At the moment meditation is still fairly new in the West and its harder to have faith that our efforts will bear fruit, so we keep looking for affirmation.

He also shared something from his own teacher, can't remember her name, about not getting hung up on success or having good meditations. Her advice was along the lines of treat it like a job, just show up, punch in, punch out, and do the work.