“When contemplating a meditation object, check to see which object is right for you. It’s like food on a tray. You have to contemplate for yourself to choose which foods are right for the conditions of your body. In the same way, you choose a meditation object right for you. The in-and-out breath. Or you can contemplate the body.
In practicing, you have to keep at it gradually but steadily—like water that falls in drops, steadily into a big water jar. The jar doesn’t dry out; the animals living in the jar don’t die. If you contemplate the Dhamma themes of inconstancy, stress, and not-self until you understand, it’s like loosening a bolt in a counter-clockwise direction. It’s no longer so tight—so that you don’t grasp at what’s inconstant, stressful, and not-self.”