Interruptions

The key to practice is conscientious application of humanist values to action moment by moment. Running every morning before breakfast is a routine application of a health value which can facilitate other applications of humanist values throughout the day. A yoga exercise period may serve the same purpose. But life is anything but always predictable. Interruptions, intended and unintended, occur. 

Learning to incorporate interruptions in the routines of practice becomes part of a humanist practice.  The creative demands of interruptions can actually enhance a practice by inhibiting rigidity. This is the difference between the itinerant practitioner, like the wandering Buddhist, and the ensconced clergyman, like the temple Buddhist. Practice, when it becomes repetitive ritual, can become stale, like established religion.