Hello healingforme: Thanks for your reply to my Thread! No, I'm afraid my meditation practice could never have been called strict. I've been an on-again / off-again meditator for... oh... probably 45 years more-or-less. I've always been a pretty undisciplined sort-of person, unfortunately. Recently I've been trying to re-commit to it. I have done quite a bit of reading with regard the Tibetan Buddhist practice of "Lojong" as is taught by the Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön. I find much to appreciate in it.