Awareness vs the Monkey Mind

🧶 Tags:: #literature_Notes
🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

Spirituality, religion, Buddhism, or anything you follow will teach you over time you are more than just your mind. You are more than just your habits. You are more than just your preferences. You're a level of awareness.

Buddhists talk about awareness versus the ego. You can think of your brain, your consciousness, as a multilayered mechanism. There's a core-base, kernel-level OS running. Then, there are applications running on top. I'm trying to stay in awareness mode and not activate the monkey mind, which is always worried, frightened, and anxious. If I run it 24/7, I waste energy and the monkey mind becomes me. I am more than my monkey mind.