Sometimes the mind seems saddened or frightened or angry with no discernible external event as a precursor; sometimes anger seems to arise just on its own. Sometimes we start the day, and the mind feels as if it got out of bed on the wrong side. It is the mind in a bad mood, the mind spoiling for a fight. There is some cause, of course, since everything is conditioned, but it need not be an external event. Perhaps we had a bad dream. Perhaps we didn’t sleep enough. Perhaps there was some hormonal shift in the body. Perhaps it’s the phase of the moon.
