Thoughts will arise, but they don’t have to control you. If there isn’t awareness of your thoughts, they will be a distraction and you will automatically be led by them…
If there isn’t awareness of your own thoughts, there won’t be anyway of knowing how they distract you and how you are led by them. Without this awareness you’ll be distracted and taken on a distracted ride. Not that life does anything directly to anyone, but thoughts do arise and they determine what kind of ride you will be on. Awareness of your arisen thoughts is essential if you’re not going to be distracted by them. Thoughts are a natural part of life, they will arise. To me there’s no way of controlling the thoughts that arise, but I have found that awareness of them allows for some space that can be used to determine whether or not the thought is a distraction and leads you; remember it’s the distracted attachment to a thought that causes suffering not the thought itself.
The Conditioned Mind is cunning. Unless there’s some awareness of how much you’re being led by your distracted thoughts, they will and this has to happen, lead you around as if you were a puppet on a string. So subtle is this that even if you’re doing things that are labeled as good, if these thoughts aren’t watched, they will eventually control you; remember control is control regardless of what label is applied to the thought. This is why the Conditioned Mind is cunning because of its subtleness in using whatever it can to distract and lead you. Thoughts will arise, but you don’t have to be distracted by them. If there isn’t awareness of this, your thoughts will be a distraction and you will automatically be led by them…
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