Downsizing Outflows - 08-14-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org/donate

Something triggers us and we have an intense emotional reaction. This is totally appropriate: It’s called dependent origination. The emotion is just a feeling and it doesn’t belong to anyone. We differentiate and divide things up in such a way that we take ownership and add on that it shouldn’t be there. We want things to be different than they are, which is the first noble truth. Whatever arises in your mind stream needs to be there. Don’t do anything with it. It looks like a straight line but it’s a circle and it’s called samsara.

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