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Watch Your Own Mind.

#WednesdayWisdom

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It’s equally painful and illuminating to watch oneself. To watch the mind as it toys with us, to watch the body reacting in some way or another, to contemplate our entire mental and embodied experience from moment to moment. We rarely have the inclination or the time to do so but, when we make time, for example through reclaiming even fifteen minutes of our busy day to simply be still we can learn a lot.

The mind will tell you that you have more important things to do, places to be, things to worry about etc. etc. but if you tell it quite firmly to ‘please shut up so that I can listen’ after a few shutdowns it will give up. You will claim the first victory and be able to see more clearly what is going on in your heart. Answers will never be found by looking externally. Only by going within and cutting through the chatter can we really begin to get to know our true self.

May this teaching lead you to happiness; may it help you grow in truth. May you be freed from the suffering of birth and death.

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