Speeding

 Do you find yourself living most of the time in the passing lane of life? Always in a hurry to get to the next whatever?  A monastery avoids this by having schedules for ordinary people who are not trying to accomplish multiple tasks in a day.  There is work and then it stops at a certain point, regardless of the status of the job.  Life can be about a steady pace, rather than a fast pace.  It depends on what you are trying to accomplish.  Meditation brings you into the right lane, the slower lane.  it gets in the way of accomplishing the next thing, but also frees you from becoming a slave to the “next” thing.