Learning to be still is how you get to know your own mind. This is something that first occurs while you begin sitting, and as this is innerstood its knowing slowly expands into your daily living…
The most important thing you can learn in life is the innerstanding of your own mind. This priceless knowledge reveals truths that all the money in the world can’t buy. One of these truths are it’s your own mind that creates its own agitations by wanting what is occurring right now or what has occurred in the past to be in some other way; hence the created agitation. And this is done so many times throughout the day that it literally seems the mind is in a constant state of agitation.
Red lights, favorite teams not winning, traffic, spouse, Facebook post, money, job, boss, coworker or workers, children, government, waiting in any line, weather, people in general, someone who’s religion is different than yours, the next right thing, wishing for this or that (this has a list all its own), opinions not agreed with, and so on. Although it may seem constant, no agitation is. Some last longer and some have more affect on what’s going on, but the bottom line is a mind agitation usually occurs because one doesn’t know their own mind. It’s difficult to stop something that isn’t known its happening and one way you can make the truth about your own mind become known is by sitting in quiet and just observing your thoughts. Don’t judge them or attach to them, don’t make up a story about the sitting, just sit and observe the thoughts; seeing how they come in, drop off and repeat the cycle. Through this process, slowly you’ll get to innerstand your mind and how it operates. This is something that first has to be known while you’re sitting and as it does become known it will slowly expand into your daily living…
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