The Buddha's Teaching on the Unskilful State of Mind

How we feel is up to us. And realizing that is tremendously empowering. But it means we take 100% responsibility for how we feel. A teaching of the buddha which highlights this, and it also highlights the enormous challenge of this. This is a very high bar of understanding and of practice but i love it because it sets the bar even if we're not there yet. The last of the unskilful mind states is what the buddhas called wrong view. It's like trying to navigate through life without understanding what brings happiness and what brings suffering. There are so many missteps in wrong directions. How often do we really stop and consider when we're doing something? Stop