The Mind Is Like A Wild Elephant; We Must Learn How To Tame It

Left unchecked, a wild elephant will wreak havoc on village life. Similarly, an untrained mind will prove disastrous to our lives. Mindfulness meditation offers us a unique opportunity to tame the mind, training it to perform when and how we would like it to. This talk invokes the traditional Buddhist analogy of 'taming a wild elephant' to show the importance of establishing a daily meditation practice.

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Hi Zachary, really a very nice and helpful analogy, this wild elephant - a little different to the usual analogy of clouded in the sky ...

Excellent. Many thanks. 🕊

This was a great analogy to help me understand about my mind, and also how mindfulness can act as the rope to train my mind. Thank you so much for this!