Summary: Gil Fronsdal: An analogy for the mind: when you drop a marble into a big bowl, it will roll around and eventually come to rest at the bottom – unless you push it and it keeps going. But if you stop pushing the marble, it comes to rest. If we left our mind alone, it would come to rest. Sometimes the very thing to put the mind to rest is to stop pushing the marble. We have to learn to let it go. If you keep letting go, any burden will eventually go away. As long as we are engaged with thinking or trying to fix things, our thoughts and burdens will keep spinning around. But if we can really arrive in the present moment, we have access to a deep sense of well-being and goodness. As you practice today, see if you can let your marbles settle. It's more *not* doing than it is doing: doing less; letting things be.
