I cried while I read that. Thank you. Bill
Find what makes your heart sing…and do it! ________________________________ From: Kristopher Grey <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, August 21, 2012 2:25:13 PM Subject: Re: [Zen] Monkey Mind On 8/20/2012 6:18 PM, William Rintala wrote: > So what can you do about Monkey Mind? Cessation. Realize the 'monkey' is asking this, and nothing needs to be done but laugh! (and cry, and eat, and sleep, and attend to whatever arises as it arises - without suffering over some 'monkey mind' that appears/is imagined to be separate from 'Buddha Mind'!) "I" am this idea of 'monkey mind', "I" am also what is monkeying with ideas of 'no-monkey mind'. "I" can do nothing to start or stop it that is not just some form of monkeying around (grasping and rejecting) to reinforce this false sense of (a separate self/ignorance of original nature) an "I" (See - The Three Poisons). Monkey (ordinary) mind is not the problem it appears to be. The "monkey" is not the deluded one. It already realizes you're the monkey! *L* If monkey mind won't quiet down, simply see what it's going on about. No need to develop Siddhi powers and turn the monkey to stone. Monkeys are easily distracted, always hungry, and naturally fight with other monkeys over all sorts of things. When there is seen to be no monkey here - it can be neither fed nor fought with. Mindfulness, doesn't mind the monkey. KG PS -The first and last line already say too much, the rest is just monkey chatter.
