One neurosis of American Buddhism is the experience neurosis, looking for that experience that will do it for you, the experience that will make it all OK. It’s very simple. I like to think of Buddhist practice as being a very simple and perhaps even a humble enterprise. It’s not about big experiences. In the beginning it is about right understanding, and right understanding begins with a simple thing, and that is understanding what the goal is, the qualities of the goal, and then, step by step, in small, little increments, studying your attitude and seeing how you can transform your attitude so that the means reflects the goal.