Do I need more practice?
A visitor asks whether another method is required, and what answer came back.
Recorded after an evening sitting, with a visitor’s permission.
Visitor: I have been sitting every morning. Still I feel unfinished. Should I add another practice?
Amma: Unfinished is not a mistake. It is the honest weather of a human day. Adding more can become a way of not staying with what is already here.
Visitor: Then what should I do when restlessness comes?
Amma: Let it come as a guest, not as a king. Feel the body. Feel the breath. Do not decorate the restlessness with a story about your spiritual progress. If the Name is near, let it be near. If silence is near, let silence be enough.
Visitor: I am afraid of wasting time.
Amma: Fear of waste is often ambition wearing modest clothes. Sit. Live cleanly. Be kind in the next conversation. Time is not a ladder you must climb before you are allowed to be still.
Visitor: And if nothing changes?
Amma: Then nothing changes, and you will have spent your mornings quietly instead of anxiously. That is not a small thing.
