The moment you make this mistake that you identify yourself with things that you are not, you cannot stop the mind. You will be in a constant state of mental diarrhea, endlessly it will go on because you’ve eaten bad food. If you want the diarrhea to stop, you don’t need a wine cork, you just stop eating bad food
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