A friend of mine recently posted this on facebook:
"ugghhh please get off mind....it's haunting!"
In this simple yet profound post lies the struggle of humanity. All pain and pleasure exist only in the mind. "Haunting" is a great way to describe it. What we are haunted by is our own thoughts that come from nowhere and go to nowhere. They are not real but our minds make them real and thus we suffer. This is the primary reason addictions arise. Addictions provide a rapid but momentary relief from our circle thinking. However, addictions soon create more problems then they solve (Really, they don't "solve" any problems). The nature of mind is to think. Thoughts will arise and emotions (feelings in the body) will follow. The idea is to let them come - don't resist them. What we resist persists. Conversely, we don't want to hold on to the thoughts and emotions. Often we become attached to them and it's our own mind that can make something tiny grow to enormous proportions and soon our monkey mind turns into an 800 pound gorilla effortlessly tossing us about. The practice is to "Let it come and let it go". When the thoughts and emotions come, let them come - and, just as quickly let them go. In the blue sky of our clear mind clouds will drift in. Let them drift in and let them drift out without much notice. The clear blue sky doesn't ever worry about the clouds.
~ Tom Notarianni Jr.
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2 comments:
Gave me the idea to use that with meditating.....focus on the breath, breathe in on "let it come", exhale on "let it go"..
That's an interesting way to practice and I think a good way to get used to letting it come and letting it go. Remember in addition to that to meditate having only about 25% of your attention on your breath and letting the rest of your mind expand to out to the Universe. Here is a more detailed explanation on the website http://www.peacefulminds.org/The_Peaceful_Minds_Center_LLC/Meditation.html
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