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Slow and Steady Wins the Race

One drawback of owning a superfast computer is that it doesn't train me in patience (in a conversation, interrupting the other person doesn't just mean speaking over them, but also beginning to talk while they are pausing to think about things).

Sydney's Warragamba Dam, which has 100,000 gallons of drinking water just for me, was built in the 1950's. Sydney was desperate for water. But as this documentary illustrates, the heroic men working on the project didn't rush, they made slow consistent effort.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu in his 2018 Dhamma talk "Persistence"  said this about his teacher:
"It’s hard to say that right effort is any particular amount of effort. It has to be the effort that’s just right for the situation. Ajaan Fuang made a comment one time that “The effort that goes into the meditation is not all that much, but you have to make it constant. That’s where the real effort is, in the persistence.” And because it is an effort in the mind, it’s something you can do in all kinds of situations." 


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