Excerpts from Supreme Master Ching Hai’s lecture:

Kids, they are so innocent. They have no criticizing attitude, nothing like that in their minds. They just love beauty, whether inside or outside. They just enjoy whatever is pleasant to their eyes and their senses and their souls. They have no critical mind, and that is so wonderful. If all of us can be like that, half of the meditation process is already done. But we struggle because our minds have become so complicated. It's not our fault, okay? It's not our fault. It is the fault of everybody, of the society; of the way things are in life, of the set up of this world and of the brainwashing system that has been heaped upon us since we were born, so we are just helpless victims. So never mind about your slow progress and your struggles with the mind; you are on your way up to recovery. That's why you feel your life is better every day.