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please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. Last week the Sharda spoke of one teaching of the Buddha that is really central to the understanding of our lives.

When he said, Bicus, whatever one frequently thinks about and

ponder upon,

that will become the inclination of the mind.

So this teaching is so obvious,

you know, and so far reaching,

whatever we frequently think about and ponder upon becomes the inclination of our minds.

It seems so straightforward.

Yet we often forget about this in the busyness of our lives and in the seduction of our own personal stories.

We forget that our minds with everything we do and everything we think,

that our minds are in the process of being trained one way or another.

And it's for this reason that right thought,

you know, the second step of the eightfold path.

Sometimes it's called right thought or right intention or right motivation.

It's for this reason that it plays such a critical role in our

unfolding spiritual journey. And the Buddha is very explicit about what constituted right thought or right motivation.

He said it's those motivations of love and kindness,

of renunciation, of compassion.

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