A delay, a difficult colleague, a plan that falls apart. Most of us treat these as interruptions to the real day, things to get through so life can carry on.
A guided meditation near the end of the course reads them differently. It begins by setting aside your daily roles and recalling a lasting self underneath them, which it calls your eternal reality. From there, it says, these situations are more than obstacles: they are opportunities to train. And it names what gets trained. The strength to cooperate. The strength to tolerate a storm without being thrown by it. The strength to step back and collect yourself. The strength to pack away thoughts you don't need.
These are different strengths, and a hard moment rarely asks for all of them at once. A stuck project might call for cooperation; a long wait, tolerance; a heated room, stepping back. The course's point is that they get practised in exactly the moments you'd rather skip. The honest difficulty is that 'opportunity' is the last word you reach for when something is going wrong. It tends to come later, once the first jolt has passed.