Zen teachers talk quite often about how you will make compromises when you try to practice on your own. As you are not disturbing anyone else, you don't mind shifting position to get a bit more comfortable---and then shifting again. You may cut the sitting short, then a bit shorter--then end up not sitting at all. But it is your own sitting that you disturb by moving, destroying the effort you've made up until then, by stirring up the mind and the ego. It is yourself that you cheat.
---Tom Chetwynd---
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