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How to maintain practice with overwhelming life demands

My teacher says I need to practice four hours daily to make real progress but I work full time and have elderly parents to care for and I feel like a spiritual failure

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Idealized practice standards fail to account for the legitimate constraints of individual life circumstances and developmental phases.

Ideas that help explain it
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