From start to completion, from start to master there are eight steps, conditions. 

CONDITION ONE: EXISTENCE

Here you have actually entered the study space. You have put on the hat of student. You are present in that space, in that mindset, ready and willing to learn.

As you can see it is not just about your intention to learn it is about deciding and putting yourself there for real. Now, this may be as simple as putting a time and space there calling it study time. That itself is a discipline and necessary to enter the cycle to stage one.

Otherwise it is you presenting yourself in a space ready and willing to learn and that space may be a school, a college, starting a course of some description or even starting an apprenticeship. When you are physically there ready, able and willing then you are in condition number one. Here you will familiarize yourself with those concerned and those things expected of you. You now EXIST on this cycle of study. Until then you do not.

The key that opens the door to learning and thus vital is a simple thing which is very real and indeed powerful, it is called INTEREST. Without interest there is no learning. Spiritually you are not there, you’re gone, off to somewhere else dreaming or up to something other than study. Physically there but spiritually elsewhere. Ha, ha, COME BACK!