A Little Bit of Faith in Everything

The eightfold path has persisted for 25 hundred years for a reason. It is a science experiment you run in the laboratory your inner life. And buddha tells you, if you do these things, and you do them from a place of sincerity and love and compassion, you will get these sorts of results. You will make progress. On the overcoming of duka, of suffering, of unsatisfactoriness. But it's not through any willed process that you're controlling. It's through stepping back and becoming aware of how the ind itself operates.