The point of practice is freedom — freedom from the constraint of all our views, our identities, our constructs, our strategies. What good is it to sit in meditation, even if we're having great experiences, if we plunge into the anxiety of our financial situation as soon as formal practice ends? Practice includes everything, even the mundane world of money. Until we are free from our deep-seated beliefs about money, as well as our deeply conditioned behaviors, we cannot truly be free.
— Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water