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MASTERY OF MOODS

“To think that ‘I am the mind’, is unawareness. To know that mind is only a mechanism just as the body is, to know that the mind is separate . . . The night comes, the morning comes: you don’t get identified with the night. You don’t say, ‘I am night’, you don’t say, ‘I am morning’. The night comes, the morning comes, the day comes, again the night comes; the wheel goes on moving, but you remain alert that you are not these things.

The same is the case with the mind. Anger comes, but you forget – you become anger. Greed comes, you forget – you become greed. Hate comes, you forget – you become hate. This is unawareness.

Awareness is watching that the mind is full of greed, full of anger, full of hate or full of lust, but you are simply a watcher. Then you can see greed arising, becoming a great, dark cloud, then dispersing – and you remain untouched. How long can it remain? Your anger is momentary, your greed is momentary, your lust is momentary. Just watch a little and you will be surprised: it comes and it goes. And you are remaining there unaffected, cool, calm.”