If you find you are too serious, let that go, because it will lead to trouble. You want a light-heartedness, which is open rather than closed. Concentrated thought closes your mind; it’s not open to receive anything, it merely contains what is there. But if it’s completely open, then it has a passage in and out and it’s not necessary to grasp and stop it. That’s what we need – information coming in and out but not necessarily held, so we can be familiar with things but not necessarily possess them or be possessed by them. If you collect a lot of things, do you possess them or do they possess
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