The Buddha and The Badness—twin aspects of the one reality.
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase.
If you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.
Happy is he who forgets what cannot be changed.”
-Mark Twain
You cannot improve what you are unaware of.
The advantage of being aware: when a thought appears, it is recognized immediately.
Then, and only then can you choose to continue it if it’s helpful, or if it’s debilitating, let it go.
Debilitating thoughts create suffering because they contain desire, desire concealed behind regret or resistance.
Regret is the desire for the past to be different.
Resistance is the desire for the present to not be how it is.
That we can know
our thoughts
and thereby know
what we are creating
is the greatest miracle.
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Whatever you leave alone is perfect.