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Don't be Afraid of the Thoughts - (3740)

This has helped me very much!

If we are afraid of certain thoughts, I want to say straight away that that is not a good situation. Something can be done to fix that.


If we resist certain thoughts and we cringe trying to block them then that is an issue that I had and one which I see now as a lack of understanding about the nature of thoughts and also a lack of separation from the mind.

We are not the thoughts!

We have to understand this deeply. If we are the thoughts it would be so terrible. We can't be because we would be so scattered so many millions of different identities and people.

We are the one constant background awareness that sees, hears, observes, witnesses the thoughts unfolding in its own theatre - the theatre of consciousness.

A thought comes and goes. It can not do anything. A thought does not mean it will happen nor that we will do it nor that we have to do it.

A thought is a puff of air blown into our psychological space. Like a puff it dissipates quickly and can't be put together again once it dissipates.

Separate from the thoughts no matter how awful, violent, disastrous, embarrassing, antithetical, etc. by understanding them as thoughts only, we are not them and so we don;t have to engage in them nor do we have to do them nor be scared about having them.

When we can separate from them we are not worried or scared of having them because we know they are not us and we have the full right to not feel the compulsion to follow them or do them.

The thoughts come from mechanical triggers, whose relevance is far left behind in time now and or the subconsciousness, which is very illogical and mixed up. 

The thoughts don't come from the consciousness which is us. Even if they did they are still only thoughts. They are suggestions but we chose, we have the right, they are only that: suggestions, concepts, ideas, images, words, they can't do anything to you and they are subjective they don;t represent the reality of whats happening! Don't believe me, then just hold the thought and wait for what is real! 

End (3740).
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