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Suzanne Jeffrey "When I was first starting out, before I met Luang Por Dhammajayo, I used to meditate on the outside, not the inside. This is a very powerful meditation, but I learned that it is not as powerful as the inside meditation that we use today. But it took me almost eighteen years to totally change over. So please learn the inside meditation and do not do any other kind. "Today, I will talk about the human being, who is composed of body and mind. We always want to know if the mind exists and most people think that we only have a body, or a body plus a brain. But we also have 'mind'. And the mind wanders, wasting lots of energy. So then we want to know how we keep the mind inside all of the time. "Stars travel far and fast. Light travels at approximately 186,000 miles per second. But we see the stars in a blink! But the mind wanders and thinks all of the time, switching around from one thought to another and sometimes we can't even complete one thought before jumping onto another. And when we can't sleep, we think and think and think. "Students are the same way when you teach them! "The mind is self-illuminating. But as we grow, it becomes darker and darker because the mind goes outside more and more to become dark with anger and greed. But babies don't have greed except, perhaps, for attention, food and dry diapers! Hence, this is the importance of the mother's timeliness. As we grow, our eyes go outside more and more. "The Bio-Chemical Chart explains this, and why we need to meditate. In meditation, the darkness disappears because it is a natural cleansing of the mind. But when we get up and open our eyes to the world, we are looking out. When we look into the mirror and see the reflection of our face, we are not looking at our own true face. So how do we truly see ourselves? Through meditation, of course. "After we look outside, we become more critical of others, but we never really see them, nor do we truly see ourselves. So how do we see ourselves? We close our eyes and meditate. We clean our mind so that our mind becomes brighter. True wisdom comes from meditation. "And, so, we have to rest our body and mind. When we start to see our own behavior, we realize that this behavior is the source of our mindfulness. We say that we have friends