If you aren’t aware of your thoughts, there won’t be anyway of knowing which ones are a benefit to you. Without awareness you will have to hold on because you’ll be taken for a ride. Not that life does anything directly to anyone, but thoughts happen and their attachment determines the kind of ride you will be on. Awareness of unchecked thoughts is essential if you’re not to be controlled by them. Thoughts are a natural part of life, they will happen. To me there’s no way of controlling the thoughts that happen, but I have found being aware of them allows for a split second of hesitation that can be used to determine whether or not the thought is a benefit; remember attachment to any thought causes suffering, not the thought itself.
The Conditioned Mind is diabolical and unless there’s awareness of how controlling your thoughts actually are, they will control you as if you were a dog on a leash; this has to happen. So subtle is this that even if you are doing things that are thought to be loving, if these thoughts aren’t watched they will eventually control you; control is control regardless. This is why the Conditioned Mind is diabolical because of its subtleness in using whatever it can to remain in control. Thoughts will happen, but they don’t have to control you. If there isn’t awareness of them, your thoughts will blindly be attached to which will unfortunately lead to them blindly controlling you…
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