Watching television is not my favorite way to past time, but the other night I watched a movie. When it was over I began looking for something else to watch. Twenty seconds on one channel, ten seconds on another, five on another, than another and another, you get the picture. It’s amazing how we stay fixated on something when it comes to our view; in this case the TV. We're so reluctant to change our view even though we’re going round and round in circles. Actually what's on the TV (the fixation) is mostly reruns, yet we'll watch the same channel (thought) over an over. Even though there are many channels (thoughts) we get stuck on the TV and don't know how to view this differently.
Think of something you get fixated on and see how hard it is to change your view when it gets you in its grip. Unless there's total awareness of this, changing your view will be just about impossible. The only way to change your view is to have something in place that will allow it to be changed. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won't be awareness a view needs changing. It may be a repeated view disguised with many different labels, but it's still an old view. Watch the subtleness of this and in time you’ll see the view for what it is and how it likes to default to what’s familiar. The issue is you can get so comfortable with a view that it's not realized it needs to be changed; this realization will only occur if you have something in place that's worth changing to…
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