From: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kn_KILZYEkc

Context: Throughout this transcript, Bhante Vimalaramsi is the speaker unless otherwise indicated.

the trick is to remember it that's what

mindfulness is for to remember to do

this to remember to observe what your

mind is doing in the present moment and

if your mind is suffering then to let go

6r that suffering and then gently come

back to being happy there's nobody out

there that's causing your pain you cause

your pain yourself and the more you take

on one of these hindrances and make it

yours personally the more emergency

there is in it and that's why people are

taking so many drugs because they're

depressed because they don't know what's

happening and they want some relief what

is depression I'll tell you exactly it's

a painful feeling that arises

and then the craving comes up I don't

like that feeling and then the clinging

arises that's all of your thoughts

opinions concepts stories about why you

don't like that feeling and then you

fall into your habitual tendency of

trying to think the feeling away and it

doesn't work it only makes the feeling

bigger and more intense so what to do

practice your loving-kindness and you'll

see what to do people that are depressed

are very self-centered oh I feel so

miserable and they cry a lot and they oh

they make themselves even more miserable

the more they fight with the feeling

trying to control the feeling with their

thoughts have to let go of those

thoughts have to relax then you have to

notice that tight mental fist around

that feeling it's painful yeah it's

painful it's alright for it to be

painful it has to be because that's the

Dhamma that's the truth

when a painful real feeling arises it's

there what you do with what arises in

the present moment dictates what happens

in the future so it's a painful feeling

so what allow the space for it to be

there as you stop feeding that painful

feeling the painful feeling will fade

away by itself let you feed that painful

feeling with your thoughts right

so I've just given you what at least

three months of what a psychiatrist

would try to give you and I gave it to

you in five minutes should I get that

kind of money for doing it see I've just

told you exactly what what depression is

and it doesn't matter if it's depression

or fear or anxiety or worry or doubt or

anger it doesn't matter what it is you

treat it always in the same way and it

takes practice to be able to do that and

the practice that I'm showing you right

now is it works

the trick is to remember it that's what

mindfulness is for to remember to do

this to remember to observe what your

mind is doing in the present moment and

if your mind is suffering then to let go

6r that suffering and then gently come

back to being happy there's nobody out

there that's causing your pain you cause

your pain yourself and the more you take

on one of these hindrances and make it

yours personally the more emergency

there is in it and that's why people are

taking so many drugs because they're

depressed because they don't know what's

happening and they want some relief what

is depression I'll tell you exactly it's

a painful feeling that arises

and then the craving comes up I don't

like that feeling and then the clinging

arises that's all of your thoughts

opinions concepts stories about why you

don't like that feeling and then you

fall into your habitual tendency of

trying to think the feeling away and it

doesn't work it only makes the feeling

bigger and more intense so what to do

practice your loving-kindness and you'll

see what to do people that are depressed

are very self-centered oh I feel so

miserable and they cry a lot and they oh

they make themselves even more miserable

the more they fight with the feeling

trying to control the feeling with their

thoughts have to let go of those

thoughts have to relax then you have to

notice that tight mental fist around

that feeling it's painful yeah it's

painful it's alright for it to be

painful it has to be because that's the

Dhamma that's the truth

when a painful real feeling arises it's

there what you do with what arises in

the present moment dictates what happens

in the future so it's a painful feeling

so what allow the space for it to be

there as you stop feeding that painful

feeling the painful feeling will fade

away by itself let you feed that painful

feeling with your thoughts right

so I've just given you what at least

three months of what a psychiatrist

would try to give you and I gave it to

you in five minutes should I get that

kind of money for doing it see I've just

told you exactly what what depression is

and it doesn't matter if it's depression

or fear or anxiety or worry or doubt or

anger it doesn't matter what it is you

treat it always in the same way and it

takes practice to be able to do that and

the practice that I'm showing you right

now is it works