The old traditions have created all kinds of barriers to meditation, and then they say, “Meditation is very difficult.” Meditation is not difficult; meditation is a simple process, a natural process. But if you create unnecessary hindrances, then you make it something like a hurdle race. You create barriers: you put rocks on the way… you hang rocks around your neck, you keep yourself chained, imprisoned, locked from within and the key thrown out…. Then of course it becomes more and more difficult, more and more impossible.