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<blockquote data-quote="JayJaySattva" data-source="post: 32801" data-attributes="member: 147">This is difficult nonetheless. It really starts to make sense why the first thing that Buddha said was that the nature of life is dissatisfaction and it arises precisely from over-identifying with what we “think” and “feel”, because the illusion to dispel is to believe that we are what we think and feel, when in reality it is the mind that thinks, and the body that feels. We, as we understand ourselves, do not exist except as the idea that we have constructed of who we are.Then, after the realization of the search for inner peace, I made the mistake of rationalizing my experience by telling myself not to hold on, that this will pass and so on. This over-identification with my thoughts occurred, which did not allow me to observe with equanimity the moment in which the state of peace disappeared, and consequently I went back to feeling like shit lol<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite78" alt=":pepelul:" title="PepeLUL&nbsp; &nbsp; :pepelul:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":pepelul:" />.Become the observer, do not judge whatever arises in the body or the mind. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="JayJaySattva, post: 32801, member: 147"] This is difficult nonetheless. It really starts to make sense why the first thing that Buddha said was that the nature of life is dissatisfaction and it arises precisely from over-identifying with what we “think” and “feel”, because the illusion to dispel is to believe that we are what we think and feel, when in reality it is the mind that thinks, and the body that feels. We, as we understand ourselves, do not exist except as the idea that we have constructed of who we are. Then, after the realization of the search for inner peace, I made the mistake of rationalizing my experience by telling myself not to hold on, that this will pass and so on. This over-identification with my thoughts occurred, which did not allow me to observe with equanimity the moment in which the state of peace disappeared, and consequently I went back to feeling like shit lol:pepelul:. [I]Become the observer, do not judge whatever arises in the body or the mind. [/I] [/QUOTE]

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