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When one remembers the long stretches of practice in the Carmelite monastery at Roquebrun or the Zendo hall at Kamakura, where hour slips into hour but the monks remain persistent in their meditation, the few minutes that most Western beginners manage to find for their own endeavours seem ridiculous.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 4 : Retreat Centres > # 114