Unconscious Thoughts

Most thoughts become a self created prison because the thoughts are usually given so much unnecessary energy that they go beyond the point where they’re beneficial to anyone…

It’s very important to grasp exactly what a thought is and how it arises from the Conditioned Mind if there’s to be any chance of not succumbing to its tantalizing grip. Here’s what occurs when a thought arises. Let’s say it’s time to get in your car and go to work, you’ve given yourself plenty of time to get there and the weather is simple gorgeous, so now you begin the drive. As you’re driving you come to a railroad crossing and a train is coming. As you’re waiting for the train to pass it has to be at least a hundred and fifty cars long; you‘re waiting patiently as you know you have plenty of time to get to your destination. The train finally passes and you go, but now there’s traffic and it’s moving slowly; as you’re stuck in this traffic the cushion you gave yourself to get to work has dwindled, now your Conditioned Mind begins its nonsense.

It all starts by the traffic being a trigger that activates the conditioning in the form of a thought, this creates a mind agitation wanting the traffic not to be there. This is how a thought is given energy to grow. It has nothing to do with the fact that there’s traffic, but it has everything to do with the fact that’s there’s attachment to traffic, that’s how the nonsense of the Conditioned Mind works; substitute the traffic with anything. At the core of attachment is I, without I none of the nonsense would transpire, it can’t because there’s nothing to attach to. I is present in this situation so now you’re attached ; until this runs its course or the traffic subsides you’ll remain in the thoughts grip. Even after the nonsense of the Conditioned Mind subsides, the trace energy will remain because although you aren’t late for work, you don’t have the cushion you gave yourself so your thoughts are concerned with being late and this becomes your conditioned story. Until you finally get to work and tell someone this story, it will fester and you will keep telling yourself how you really hate traffic, but the reality of all this is, although traffic is what triggered you, it wouldn’t matter what it was, you really just want life to be the way that you want it and when it isn’t it opens the door for all kinds of conditioned nonsense…