
Ep. 97 – Perception & Mental Formations
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Mind's True Nature Is Not Self
Ajahn Chah: The mind is already peaceful, but it follows moods. Sense impressions come in trick it into unhappiness, suffering, gladness, and sorrow. Gladness or sadness is not the mind, but only a mental factor coming to deceive us. So we must train the mind to know these sense impressions and not get lost in them.
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