"Train Your Mind Gently, Like a Mother Looking after her Baby"

Ajahn Dhammasiha reminds us that the default position of our mind is actually samādhi. The mind is naturally blissful and calm. It is only the kilesas (defilements) that get our mind moving, and that are causing agitation.Like a body of water will become still all on it's own, as long as we do not disturb it, so our mind would be still if only we did not actively agitate it.Trying to force the mind to be still is as fruitless as trying to forcefully calm down the waves in a pond. The more we splash around, the more the water will be disturbed. But if the wind stops, the water will gradually calm down by itself.The point is to recognize how we're constantly and actively creating agitation in our mind, and then to gradually reduce and weaken that process.www.dhammagiri.netwww.facebook.com/dhammagiri-forest-hermitagewww.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJwwww.tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive