WATCHING THE MIND IS LIKE WATCHING A MOVIE

|Sweden Retreat 2019 File 14 Day 5 Group C (52:00-52:52)

When you’re angry with someone, you really want to be angry with that person. We would like to be right and that person should be wrong; and we should be angry. That’s what anger does.

It is the same with sadness – when we’re sad, we would like to be sad and there’s a reason to be sad and that’s also the nature of the mind.

There’s nothing wrong with that – simply recognize that the mind is doing that.

All we want to do is to see that it’s a sad movie playing – it could be a sad, angry or happy movie playing in the mind. And, we watch that movie to understand how the thoughts and feelings play out.