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Once, in the past, Ananda was teaching Srona to meditate. Srona had great difficulty getting it right. Sometimes he was too tense, sometimes too relaxed. Srona went to discuss the matter with the Buddha, who asked him:
“When you were a layman, you were a good vina-player weren’t you?”
“Yes, I played very well.”
“Did your vina sound best when the strings were very slack or when they were very taut?”
“It sounded best when they were neither too taut nor too loose.”
“It is the same for your mind,” said the Buddha; and by practicing with that advice Srona attained his goal.
Excerpt from Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche