Ajahn Karuṇadhammo encourages us to not push away afflictive states of mind that come up in meditation but rather to experience them with patient endurance, allowing one to see these habitual tendencies arise and pass away again and again until they gradually lose their control. He speaks of how the monastic form supports this kind of practice, and how working with sense restraint as a lay person can do the same. This talk was offered on June 18, 2016 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.