#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  The mind is like the surface, the water first surface of a pond. And the outside world is like the wind that blows through the pond that creates ripples on the water surface. Those ripples are the equivalent of your thoughts. Thought arises because we react to the wind, to the external noise, the external stimuli. noises, the smell, the uh sounds, the criticism and the desires that wells up inside of us and so forth. This is very natural process. You simply stop the wind from blowing and that water the ripples on the water surface there of the pond will naturally die down by themselves. It's physical. And this is the magic of meditation is about you giving your mind a chance to settle.