Flip Flopping

Like a fish
pulled from its home in the water
& thrown on land:
this mind flips & flaps about
to escape Mara's sway.

Hard to hold down,
nimble,
alighting wherever it likes:
the mind.
Its taming is good.
The mind well-tamed brings ease.

-Dhammapada, 3, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Im not liking my book "Radical Acceptance"
It is getting a little, for lack of words, over done with the authors patient case histories.

I certainly do identify with the above poem, I think that is what it is.
Like a fish pulled from its water and thrown on land..... I visualize the thrashing around fighting for the breath, the grasping for the air to breathe.....
That is what I have been feeling during my sits at times. My mind just flips and flops, I am learning to just sit through the flips and the flops and then when done with my sit I am generally at ease, my mind.