Destructive Consequences

The more controlled you are by a thought, the more destructive the consequences will be. The destructive consequences are determined by the hold the attached thought has over you…

The problem with thoughts isn’t when you’re busy, although they’re still randomly arising non stop, but because of the busyness there isn’t much focus on them. Problems arise when you’re doing the daily mundane tasks that don’t take much focus. In this state of semi idleness if there’s unawareness of this, when a thought arises there’s nothing to distract you from becoming attached to it because the mind has no focus; this opens the door for destructive attachments to occur.

Here is an example of a thought process, you’re at home relaxing feeling all is well, all of a sudden a thought pops in that you want to have a beer, substitute the beer with something more suited to your conditioning. At this point if there’s awareness, the thought will be allowed to pass through, but if there isn’t look out because the destructive attachment begins. First a past pleasure is brought into the present, then the Conditioned Mind makes you attach to the pleasure, so now there’s an impulse to reach for something (in this case a beer) this puts actions into place and once the beer is opened and consumed destructive consequences follow.

There wouldn’t be much of a consequence from consuming one beer, but often time it turns into six. The more controlled you are by a thought the more destructive the consequences are. Because so much of the thought process is to provide pleasure there’s nothing this pleasure seeking (which is the bondage of self) can’t make worse; this understanding is imperative if you’re to be free from destructive thoughts. It needs to be understood that it’s your own Conditioned Mind that creates your destructive attachments. Why this is such an issue is because this leads to the belief these destructive thoughts are the best solution life has to offer. Without awareness of this and with no tools in place to prevent it, tragically there’s not much focus given to the destructive consequences of your thoughts…