A crinkling small water bottle heard in a past room stops annoying and starts to teach.

Our students need to reach a point, where we can make the choice not to react automatically to external stimuli. This requires going against the grain, against long established habits and self-indulgences.

The question, is as basic as: Can you choose not to be angry in the face of something that makes you angry?  Rather than being wasted in such an outburst, the energy accumulated through this effort can be made available for a moment of intensified consciousness. Such a moment can flood you with peace or quiet joy, or a sense of profound liberation.

Interestingly enough, such moments often occur during paradoxical events in distant meditation rooms..a crinkling small water bottle heard in a past room stops annoying and starts to teach.