THOUGHTS ARE LIKE CLOUDS - Lama Dawa's Commentary

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Commentary voice-over work: Lama Dawa Zangpo
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"When we meditate, we see our thoughts as clouds passing through the sky of our mind. The sky remains clear and unchanged no matter what clouds arise."
-Thich Nhat Hanh, in the book The Miracle of Mindfulness.

Lama Dawa Zangpo’s Commentary:
This is a wonderful quote from Thich Nhat Hanh. When we meditate and we see our thoughts without judging them, and without holding them too tightly, we can see thoughts in a more objective way, and what we do see is that our thoughts just come and go through the mind. In other words, the mind is like the sky, and clouds are what the thoughts appear as. They just come and go. Clouds arise and dissipate. Similarly, we start to understand through meditation that our thoughts are not solid, but always changing and passing through the sky of our mind. They come and they go. The conclusion of this is that we do not have to hold on to our thoughts and take them too seriously and think of them as so solid and real. This is the spiritual journey. Is to learn how to relate to our thoughts in a more spacious and relaxed way.

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