Monkey Mind

Street Dharma: Teaching Meditation To The Homeless

BJ Gallagher | Posted 01.07.2012

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BJ Gallagher

It can be very unsettling when you realize just how frantic your mind really is... You may find, like Buddhist elders have said, that the mind is like a crazy monkey swinging from thought to thought and from past to future.

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Buddha: How To Tame Your Monkey Mind

BJ Gallagher | Posted 11.03.2011

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BJ Gallagher

Buddha described the human mind as being filled with drunken monkeys, jumping around, screeching, chattering, carrying on endlessly. We all have monkey minds, Buddha said.

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