TAPAS · CHOSEN DISCIPLINE
Restraint is a capacity, and capacities are built by use. The content matters less than the regularity: a purchase declined, a reply not sent, a second helping refused, an hour of silence kept. What is being trained is the ability to want something and not take it — the single skill on which everything in Part Five depends.
The practice
Choose one small thing today and decline it deliberately, for no reason except practice.
A question to carry
When did I last choose discomfort on purpose, and what did it teach me?