Dear sofia:

I told you that I wondered if some of the things you think of as mistakes were not real mistakes? Well, I don’t see a mistake in this example, because you actually didn’t do anything. You pushed an internal muscle, but no external movement resulted. So no wrongdoing.

I see your confusion. You think that the thinking itself is a mistake, as if a thought by itself can be a mistake. And then, you think that feeling any particular feeling or sensation can be a mistake as well.

But a thought is never a mistake. A feeling/ sensation is never a mistake. Because thoughts just happen in our brain, we don’t choose them. Same with feelings and sensations, they just happen, we don’t choose them.

We choose actions, not thoughts and feelings.

Imagine the billions of people on the earth: every single person has sometimes angry thoughts, jealous thoughts, and every single person feels anger at times, and desires of all kinds, every single person.

Is everyone bad?

See what I am saying?

anita