Retraining

 A spiritual path can be looked at as a retraining.  We generally don’t start out on a spiritual path sufficient for ongoing good behavior.  How many people adhere to a religion, maybe attend worship services, but then gradually or quickly, move into bad behavior, addictions, and so on.  Such people, myself included, are in training, that is in a regular practice of bad behavior.  If it does not kill us first, we decide that our training program is not working in our best interests.  So we get into a retraining to recover or discover a much better lifestyle, free from a lot of our bad habits and addictive behavior.  In our new spiritual path of retraining there are always new things to learn.  So we never get to the end of retraining.  People who think they are finished retraining usually end up a mess.  My daily meditation is part of the retraining.  Then I can try to become part of the solution and not the problem.