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There are people who go into spiritual practice wanting to get rid of desire, not realising that they have added one more desire to their desires. Spiritual practice is not like a course that you graduate when you finally make it to a state, that you go through this step-by-step process until the completion of the course. Regarding the time involved in spiritual practice is the drawback with most spiritual practices. They give you time to get better and better at it, and to work towards the future goal of finding yourself, and that requires self-effort. Self-effort is like will power, and will power seems to yield results, but they are never lasting. There must be a certain degree of discipline because when you initially enter this path of self-discovery, effort most-definitely predominates. And it’s only progressively that effort gives place to surrender. Surrender implies a transition from resistance to non-resistance. The transition is surrender. Surrendering is both passive and active. Presence is an intrinsic aspect of the surrendered state. This then becomes less of a paradox and more of an absence of desire.