#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  **If you DO NOT address your stress, you DO NOT resolve your anxiety, you ARE polluting your space.** You are affecting others around you. **You ARE a polluter.** So that's why the **Chan meditation** we are teaching you here, is basically, uh, **helping you develop your concentration more and more and more** so that **you can stop** your pollution **as soon as you are aware of it**. We naturally have adverse reactions, negative reactions to the external stimuli; that's life. There's no point in whining about it and say, **"Make it go away. I don't want it."** No! It will come to you, okay, naturally. Because that's part of being alive. That's part of living in society. Most people around you are negative anyway. That's a pollution right there. And you don't allow them to affect you at all. **Actually, you help them by not adding to the negativity. Build that, that concentration.** So that, **as soon you realize**—realize that we need to still our mind and shed it from negative thoughts. **That's when you focus—you go back to your, your concentration skill—focus on one thing. That's how you shed it.**