My tendency this morning is to get down on myself for the unwholesome thoughts that have appeared in my head so far today. For the most part I haven’t fed these thoughts and have allowed them to disappear on their own. But it is disturbing me that I think I am a good Buddhist but my thoughts betray me a make me out to be a hypocrite.

I need to remember that thoughts will come that are unwholesome, this I can do nothing about. What I can do is to just let them be. Don’t feed them. Don’t add any energy to them. They will pass away. These unwholesome thoughts are not me. They are simply thoughts.