Quieting the self

In the dim light of a household chapel, a monk from the local Buddhist monastery chants prayers to bless a family's crop during the brief Himalayan growing season. In this remote valley isolated by past war, I get to discover a redoubt of peace..
"You have to go through the boredom of repetition until an energy arises of itself," says a nun while performing a meditation. "[Then] you will find yourself entirely free of wanting anything."

Sogyal Rinpoche: " The realization of impremanence is paradoxically the only thing we can hold on to, perhaps our only possession."