There's an old saying that wars are won in the general's tent—that winning a war means you have to have a great plan. And generals have battle plans, for instance, for making retreats sometimes. And I have a book on this. Somebody recommended it to me. It's from the U.S. Marine Corps. It's called Warfighting. It's just a pamphlet that talks a lot about planning for battle. It has a lot of metaphors that are helpful for life in general, and there is an appropriate time if one retreats and then makes a comeback. So any battle plans must include a way to make comebacks. And there are famous battles, which I won't go into right now, in which the general artfully retreated at a certain point, but then won the war—retreated from a particular battle, but that had an overall strategy to win the war. So that brings me to the topic of making comebacks, and I'm just going to read an excerpt from this stack of papers. And that is, how to make a comeback when you've stopped your daily japa.

Sometimes chanters give up their daily japa because of a lifestyle change. For instance, when preoccupied by starting a new intense work or school schedule or giving birth to a child, some stop chanting because of a traumatic event, like losing a loved one or when they've fallen ill. In these cases, chanters circumstantially break their daily vows of chanting. Others, however, allow their chanting practice to gradually fade, week by week, month by month, their practice grows fainter and until it eventually disappears. There are three reasons why chanters allow their practice to fade: laxity, bad association, and making offenses.

(excerpt from the talk)

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