Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about working

with thoughts.

More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

Okay, so I'd like to start by sharing a quote, it's by a gentleman you may have heard

of called the Buddha.

And the Buddha said, we are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think.

And the mind is pure, joy follows like a never departing shadow.

Notice how that quote lands for you.

I think it can bring up different emotions, it can be inspiring, but it can also feel

I think a bit deflating, especially if we're struggling with difficult thoughts.

I think this is one of those quotes earlier on in my journey, my personal growth journey

and especially my meditation journey that I would have heard and interpreted differently

from how I would interpret it now, perhaps in a more one-dimensional way.

And I think this is some of the issues with taking quotes from different wisdom traditions

and also translating them, translation issues, so that we can't always capture the nuance

here.

And I do think there's more nuance to this quote, because this quote can leave us thinking

that if we have nothing but pure thoughts that in some sense we're really messing up

our life.

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