The Mind’s Immune System
August, 2002
We’re here to look after the health of our minds because the mind has a tendency to fall prey to diseases. There’s a passage in the Udana where the Buddha right after his Awakening surveys the world, and he sees everybody on fire with the fevers of passion, aversion, and delusion. So when we talk about the diseases of the mind here, we’re not talking about the ones that would throw you into a mental institution. We’re talking about the diseases everybody is born with. We come into the world carrying germs inside.