As long as mindfulness, alertness, and ardency can play the role of chairmen of the mind's committee, then no matter what comes in, it doesn’t have to hit you. And you don’t have to pick it up. It doesn’t have to drive you around. You’re in charge.

"We talk about the committee of the mind. Well, a lot of the members of the committee are just old kamma. You want your skillful new kamma to be the chairman of the meeting who can decide who’s speaking out of order and who has the right and who doesn’t have the right to vote on what you’re going to be doing right now. As long as mindfulness, alertness, and ardency can play the role of chairmen, then no matter what comes in, it doesn’t have to hit you. And you don’t have to pick it up. It doesn’t have to drive you around. You’re in charge."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Old Kamma & New"

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