All These Minds Are Not the Mind

📝Reflection

Through a single day, countless minds come and go within us — fluttery in the morning, irritable at noon, lonely in the evening. Yet when one emotion rises, we harden that moment's mind into a permanent self: "I'm a depressive person," "I'm an angry person." This verse loosens that hardening: those minds are no fixed substance but passing clouds. As the sky is not the cloud, I am not that emotion. A dark cloud does not mean the sky is gone — it soon passes. This depression, this anger, this anxiety are merely weather crossing the sky of mind. So long as we don't believe it is who we are, we can let any emotion pass through.