Talk:Airbending training/@comment-209.121.130.81-20120416021848

The spinning gates exercise is genius, and it beautifully portrays the spiritual understandings of meditation. I am so glad these enlightening concepts are being presented in such imaginative ways that people of all ages can begin to understand. Korra is failing at the exercise because she is trying to force herself to succeed rather than surrendering herself to the present and allowing the wind to guide her--as the leaf does naturally. The same is true for meditation. If you forcefully try to 'do' meditation, you will not learn much. But if you relax all of the tension that drives you and you surrender your desires to control the world, you will sink right into the present--and be one with it. You will allow it to change you.