When you don’t understand the nature and origin of your thoughts, your thoughts use you. When the Buddha recognized the nature of his mind, he reversed the process. He showed us how we use our thoughts instead of being used by them.

Mingyur Rinpoche

from the book The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

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• The best part of all
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• Oh, this is how my mind works
• Trying to do your best
• Neither rejecting nor accepting
• Nothing more than the natural function of the mind
• Thinking of yourself as limited
• The practice of simply observing
• Meditation on compassion
• What Buddhists mean by happiness
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• Setting the tone for your entire day
• Your mind just as it is
• Importance of the motivation
• Being diligent
• Essentially good
• An experience of absolute well-being
• The need to look at the mind
• Never disturbed
• Becoming aware