The mind is a monkey, don't let it make you a donkey
- 1. Mind is a monkey Don’t let it make YOU a donkey CHAITANYA CHARAN DAS
- 3. Pleasure in more in anticipation than in experience
- 4. Wild ride
- 5. What the mind craves for, it makes us slave for.
- 7. Fix the mind on Krishna 1. Intention 2. Intelligence 3. Inclination
Editor's Notes
- #4: Monkeys are known to be restless mind is constantly restless what mind likes today it dislikes tomorrow whether it be things activities people even our spiritual practices monkey keeps jumping from one to another at least monkey gets something to eat Mind often makes us jump from one to other without giving us much pleasure
- #5: Most of the things, mind thinks are pleasurable, are only pleasurable in anticipation, not in experience. experience of anticlimax
- #6: To live a life driven by the mind, is to go on a ride where the car steering wheel keeps turning constantly and unpredictably. we go no where in particular end up in danger repeatedly
- #7: the mind makes us a donkey - Donkeys represent foolish hard work hardwork that is unecessary and unproductive What the mind craves for it makes us slave for. Many of the desires of mind are not easy ot achieve we slave tirelessly, we become like donkeys. wanting a partner, wanting a drink addicts work very hard, squander all that everywhere. when Mind makes us Donkey, not just pointless, but destructive, degrading, doublecross, lie, cheat,
- #8: Mind goes out of control. We have some control.