Dear folks:
As I mentioned before a number of times, just getting curious about your next thought goes quite a ways to quiet the mind, and here is an add-one that you can play with.
Back to the adage that ”resistance equals persistence”, try this one. Watch your thoughts gently with the attitude that you have no concerns about what they are. They are neither bad nor good. Let them be with no resistance at all, just a gentle welcoming of anything that comes up. You might find they slow down quite a bit, but if they speed up do the same thing. No judgment and no expectation, just the allowing of whatever arises.
While on the topic, you probably now have realized that you don’t know what your next thought will be (look and see). So, if you don’t know what it will be then you didn’t choose it… did you? If you did choose it, they it would be known to you already… but that doesn’t seem to be the case in my experience. See if this hold true for you.
Next, ponder this, WHO did the choosing? Is it a roll of the dice, or another persons voice, perhaps some little demon in your head at the controls… and where is this source of these thoughts? Is somebody else or something else controlling your thoughts? Do you do what your thoughts tell you to do? Are you in movie that is being directed by someone else?
Please remember, I am not trying to tell you what your experience(s) is/are. They are quite to you and I respect that. I am only pointing and probing in an effort to bring you to some deeper understanding… of what… of this marvelous dream and what appear to be you.
Love ya, Jed
