Why “I Am Not My Thoughts” is a Form of Mental Trickery

It’s a psychological defence mechanism to avoid suffering

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“You are not your mind.”

I remember a yoga teacher saying this to me many years ago.

It didn’t seem to make sense to me at the time. But a couple of years later, I bought Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now. I read it and…