And so we may experience deep states of meditation where our mind seems to be stopped. It's important to use our higher stillness and meditation to understand the experience and transform it into something that can really help us with more serious issues, such as stopping pain and death itself.

The question then becomes how long we can stay in a place where the Great Mistake has stopped. The answer, for the first time, is that we stay only for a few minutes. Our pure seeds are still too fragile to maintain the stopping: they spend themselves; the stopping stops; and the Great Mistake resumes, despite ourselves.

During these few minutes, other powerful but fragile seeds have maintained both the meditational wisdom and the single-pointed stillness upon which it rests: our old team. They too though are at the mercy of their respective seeds—seeds to start, and seeds to stop.

We transform the pair as well then when we turn them upon themselves, realizing fully that realization can last only as long as our seeds do. This in turn sends us back to work on the first two limbs of yoga: planting seeds by taking care of others.