Monkey mind is not bad, not good. The important is the relationship between you and monkey mind.
If you take the monkey mind as your boss or enemy, and the problem monkey mind is restless and crazy. You don't want to have crazy boss. Or if you tried to fight with the monkey mind, the monkey mind become your enemy. You have enemy, always there in your mind.
But if you make friends with the monkey mind, actually monkey mind is good. Monkey mind is useful, then eventually monkey mind transformed into wisdom, love, compassion, awareness. Therefore, the relationship with the monkey mind is really important.
The one of the important thing is to really make friends with the monkey mind you have to get you have to know get to know each other. Well, that's very important.
So now I will tell you a little bit about how monkey mind making the problem. Okay, so one day you went to pattern and look at the mirror. And suddenly, you see something in your face. Maybe wrinkles, new wrinkles, or the wrinkles.
The origin are already there. But you haven't recognized before you see something maybe your right cheek bone is a little bit bigger than left cheek bone or cricket or nose. pimples something so then Oh, dear, you know, something, some problem in my face.
Then you are led a bit of worry. And after finished using by the room, you'll come back and you might have breakfast. And while you're having breakfast. You're thinking about own again. Oh, cheekbone, yes.
What happened is in the brain, there's neurons what I call gossipy neurons. They love gossip. And they're talking to each other Oh my cheekborne is ugly, ugly face.
And then more and more neurons, they join together and become group and group is become bigger, bigger. So how to walk with occupied right. So the key point is if you try to fight, it doesn't work. If you listen and believe I'm ugly, yes, I have to chew bone is terrible, doesn't work.
So, what do you have to do is for the meditation practice is we need to free monkey mind with the very skillful way.
So what is the skillful make friends with the monkey mind and how to make friends with a monkey mind giving banana doesn't walk.
You need to give job to monkey mind. If you can give job to a monkey mind, then you become boss, monkey mind become your employee and the job is all this different meditation techniques. And slowly slowly your mind become more calm, peaceful, not only calming, peaceful, pliable, walk up.
Now monkey mind become more better. Nice, wiser, kind. So, then monkey mind become benefit for you. What matters is the relationship between you and monkey mind.
That is a matter but the monkey mind is not bad. Not good.
