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Reduce the importance of a thing - A technique to Quiet Your Mind

11 Jan 2025 · 2 min

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In this short mindfulness teaching, the speaker explains that over‑emphasising the importance of problems causes the mind to become turbulent and overheated, likening it to a spinning wheel that loses focus. By placing concerns within an "infinite" perspective—asking how significant any issue is compared to eternity—one can reduce their perceived weight, calm the mind, and avoid the pain that stems from resistance, desire, and an undisciplined "monkey" mind. The monologue ends with a rhetorical question about who truly governs the mind, urging listeners to recognize themselves as the boss of their thoughts.

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The next item is to reduce the importance of things. If you put too much, and if you make things more important than they are, it's like you're spinning your mind, taking your mind for a spin. And when it spins too strongly, it heats up. And when it heats up, it is like a turbulent, unfocused mind. It means you are not putting things into context and you are not cool-headed. Putting them into context, an infinite context. For example, in comparison to infinity, How important is this issue? So whatever issue it is, in comparison to infinity, how important is this? Not that important. So making things too important, you leave your quiet mind. It's the importance, the resistance, and the desire That caused us pain. And undisciplined mind, a monkey mind, an untamed mind is your enemy. Who is the boss? Who is the boss of your mind?