Change Your Thoughts Change Your Life

 

The importance of taking good care of our minds ....
Extracted from Ven Tenzin Palmo talk in Tasmania, Australia June 2000.

"Without a mind we are like a corpse.
All our inner feelings, emotions, thoughts, memories , anticipations and fantasies are from our mind.

But how much care do we take of our minds?

While we take such care to clean, air decorate our homes.
We also put much effort into taking care of our bodies, we take bath everyday, we wear decent clothings , we see that our hair is brushed and washed.
We take care of our skin and appearance.

But we take little trouble to clean , air and beautifully adorn our minds.
Our minds are junk piles.

Everyday from newspapers, TV, radio, gossip -all kinds of piles in and sits there.

YEars and YEars of stupid thoughts and futile memories of things people did against us churn around our mind-all the resentments , jealousies and frustration going way back to childhood.

These resentments constantly stay there fermenting in our minds.

It is as though we are all constipated in our mind.
We rarely ever let out and expurgate.

And on top of this incredible long standing pile of garbage , we want to build a beautiful spirtual temple.

We want to become great meditators and we wonder why it doesn't work...."