Knowing Your Phone vs Knowing What Your Phone Does to Your Mind | Aware of Feelings, Likes & Dislike

Our education system is set up to learn almost exclusively about external processes. But we don't learn about what's going on in our mind internally, we don't understand all these different feelings and emotions, we're not educated how to become aware or them and how to deal with them. For example, most people have a good knowledge how to use their mobile phone. They know how to use Youtube, how to publish a reel on Insta, how to upload a TikTok video, how to post on facebook, and so on... But are they aware what is the effect on their mind when they do all of the above? Do they understand their internal feelings and emotions that are caused by their posting & liking & disliking; and being liked & shared & going viral; or being disliked & staying unpopular and obscure? The quote Ajahn mentions in his talk is from the 'Xin Xin Ming' ('Faith in Mind'), the famous verses attributed to the Third Patriarch of the Chinese Chan (Zen) School, Jianzhi Sengcan . It opens with the well known first two lines: "The Perfect Way is easy for those who fo not pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear..." https://terebess.hu/english/hsin.html AUDIO PODCASTS In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast MORE INFORMATION Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net New Photos: https://latest-pics.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Dhammagiri Podcasts: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast (or search for Dhammagiri on any podcasting app) #buddhism #dhammatalk #mindfulness #awareness #buddhistwisdom #buddhistteachings #insight