QUOTE : When people come new and fresh and they have no experience of meditation, it happens. It happens and they are filled with joy—but the very experience creates difficulty. Then expectations begin: what happened today should happen tomorrow; not just happen, but happen stronger. But it doesn’t happen again, and they approach me, crying. They say, ‘What happened? Have we made some mistake? It happened once, but now it’s not.’ ‘This is your mistake,’ I tell them. ‘When it first happened you were not expecting anything; now you are. Now the mind is no longer innocent. Your expectation has contaminated it. Now you are not genuine, you are not open—asking has closed the doors. Expectation has arisen, and this expectation spoils everything. Now desire is aroused, greed enters.