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Eventually, if you work enough on yourself,

you will find that what's happening is that you are resting on your mind like you would float on water

i imagine a bird who's fallen into the water and the wings are wet and it's trying to stay afloat.

It's been there long enough, of course it's just the bird brain, that it forgot about flying.

It just knows it wants to survive.

That bird lying in that water, if the water is still and calm and pleasant,

the bird is sunbathing, the bird is floating, the bird is even enjoying the experience of being in the water.

If the water begins to become choppy, wavelets, disturbances, water gets

over the head of the bird and into the mouth, and it's hard. And so the bird struggles to stay

above the ripples. And of course, if it becomes tumultuous stormy it's very very difficult very difficult

for that bird it's been through that numerous times and it's almost drowned completely it's

even gone down a few times so the bird's entire life is the state of the water do you understand understand that? That's that's what life is to that bird is the state of the water. And so the bird, if it had its way, would keep the water calm, would have it be comfortable and have it be peaceful. So it tries, however it can, to find ways to do this.

Now, of course, you and I know, and this is a part you're not going to like,

that the bird don't have a chance on the world to determine

what the water is doing, does it? But it thinks it can. Why? Because it has to think that.

Because it needs the water to be still. And it can't exist thinking it has no control over this.

So somehow it even gets in, I know it sounds so silly,

it gets into the spot where it found out once

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