~ His Holiness the Gylwang Drukpa
The mind, like anything, needs looking after to work well. If you have a car, for example, that looks very nice and new in the beginning when you bought it
, but you continue to use it without maintenance, its condition will deteriorate day by day. You need to check the brakes, the oil and the engine from time to time. This is the same as our mind, we have to check in from time to time, every day. If you don't put an effort into maintaining your car, even if externally it looks smart, it will not work. If we focus all the time on our body and don't repair and watch our mind, after a time it becomes wild and uncontrollable. If your mind is disturbed then life will be disturbed. Your nervous mind makes everything nervous. Rather than run away, give yourself a chance to understand the message your mind is giving you, the teaching. So, if we continually take care of our minds then we will help ourselves not to be dragged down by the poisons of attachment, anger, ignorance, discouragement, pride and jealousy. We keep a look out.
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