Thoughts such as judgments, beliefs, and assumptions are transient, impermanent, and mental events. The invitation is to simply observe our thoughts, and not get hooked, believe or act on everything that the mind suggests, and instead to practise
The Windy Day, Annette Wynne
The wind was very bad that day,
It blew my brand new hat away,
It blew and blew and blew—
It should have found some better things to do.
Perhaps the sailor on the sea
Wanted that wind that pestered me,
But the wind just stayed around and blew
My things about. When he was through
He went and hid himself away
And never came again that day.
Guide: Noelle Lim
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