Hey and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life I am your host Cori Muscarra and in today's episode we're going to discuss why the true nature of your mind is already at peace.

More to come on this in a moment, but first, let's settle in with the sound of the bells. I'm going to start this episode with a quote by the great meditation teacher Aijon Cha.

As you listen to it, as with all of the quotes or poetry I share in this podcast. Notice yes

what it's like to hear the words and to listen to the concepts but also notice

how it impacts you on a less cognitive level in your body or even in a place

within you that you can't quite describe but you sense. So Ajan Chas says, within itself the mind is already

peaceful, that the mind is already peaceful.

That the mind is not peaceful these days

is because it follows moods.

It becomes agitated because moods deceive it.

Sense impressions come and trick the mind into happiness, suffering, gladness, sorrow.

But the mind's true nature is none of these things.

Gladness or sadness is not the mind, but only a mood coming to deceive us.

The untrained mind but only a mood coming to deceive us.

The untrained mind gets lost and follows them.

It forgets itself, and we think that it is we who are upset,

or at ease ease or whatever. But really this mind of

ours is already unmoving and peaceful, really peaceful. So we must train the mind to know these sense impressions and not

get lost in them. Just this is the aim of all of this difficult practice that we put ourselves through.

And of course that last line of practice is referring to meditation. So notice how that lands for you.

What it makes you think about feel.

Does it resonate?

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