The Habit That Made the Monkey Mind

Have you ever wondered why your mind refuses to sit still—why thoughts surge, swirl, and rehearse themselves as if on an endless loop? The answer isn’t mysterious or psychological jargon. It comes down to one simple, ancient habit: the mind’s impulse to grab hold of fleeting appearances and turn them into solid realities. In the very moment the mind turns nothing into something, the monkey mind is born. But once we see this mechanism clearly—truly catch it in the act—we hold the key to dissolving restlessness at its source and opening into the spacious, luminous awareness that has always been our true nature.

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