Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.
Yongey Mingyur RinpocheHappiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.
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