QUOTE : Buddhist meditation practice: the opportunity to use diticult conditions-and the disturbing emotions that usually accompany them to unlock the power and potential of the human mind. Many people never discover this transtormative capacity or the breadth of inner freedom it allows. Simply coping with the internal and external challenges that present themselves on a daily basis leaves little time for reflection for taking what might be called a "mental step back"' to evaluate our habitual responses to day-to-day events and consider that perhaps there may be other options. Over time, a deadening sense of inevitability sets in: This is the way I am, this is the way life works, there's nothing I can do to change it.