This mind is like a fish out of water that thrashes and throws itself about, its thoughts following each of its cravings.
Such a wandering mind is weak and unsteady, attracted here, there and everywhere. How good it is to control it and know the happiness of freedom.
-Dhammapada
Each of us is like a fish out of water, our only thoughts on each and every craving we have.
We always go through life thrashing and throwing ourselves about, never still.
Why is such a wandering mind so weak and unsteady? Because it is like a fish out of water, drowning in samsara.
Why is it attracted here, there and everywhere? Because of ceaseless distractions, all of them the result of endless craving.
When the mind is controlled, it knows the happiness of freedom.
Thus through limitations within which the controlled mind operates, one is happy and free.
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