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I'd like to talk about one aspect of our experience that is so predominant and is so

determinative of much of what happens in our lives and an aspect that even though it's so predominant we rarely pay careful attention to,

something you're very familiar with, and that is how to relate skillfully to all the thoughts or images that are

arising in the mind. You know, as you've seen and how almost anybody's seen who just sits down even for five minutes and meditates,

become aware of the proliferation of thought in the mind.

And ordinarily, in the mind. And ordinarily, in the course of kind of our ordinary,

I'd like to talk about one aspect of our experience

that is so predominant and is so determinative of much of what happens

in our lives and an aspect that even though it's so predominant,

we rarely pay careful attention to, something you're very familiar with, and that is how to

relate skillfully to all the thoughts or images that are arising in the mind.

You know, as you've seen and how almost anybody's seen who just sits down even for five minutes

and meditates, become aware of the proliferation of thought in the mind.

And ordinarily in the course of kind of ordinary lives these thoughts come we get lost in them

caught up in them often act on them and even when we don't act on them they still have the power to

condition strong emotions within us. So it's a very powerful force.

What's so amazing about applying

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