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Namah Mind-Training — Can We Miss This Step?

Have you seen what happens to us when which is now troubling us too much, some
we are overwhelmed by a situation or a soft spot, an attachment in our life, some loss
person in our life, and just can’t control the that we have to go through, some insult/
spinning thoughts in our head? We are bound rejection or something which is not that
to believe them to be true (without any mind- pleasing and brings suffering or pain. When
training) and rarely stand as a witness. We such an incident happens in our life, have
mostly fully believe them and hence identify you observed how you can’t stop thinking
with them, rather than stand back from the about it?
thought-stream and know ourselves as the
consciousness that watches the thoughts and Round and round the thoughts circle
feelings that play around. and repeat the same story and drama
in the heads, which we believe to be true,
Mind-training is a step we cannot miss, but and which therefore continue to give us
overall, we take it too lightly and become disappointment and suffering; even then,
serious and sincere about it only when we we can’t stop. We are just helpless puppets
have suffered enough through the wild in the swarm of thoughts and feelings over
commotion and whirlwind of thoughts and which we have no real control. They want
feelings through some serious incident in to make us sad, we feel sad, they want to
our life. make us uplifted, we feel uplifted and
happy suddenly, they want to make us
Stuck in a loop feel jealous or lustful or greedy, we have
no choice but to feel the same. And yet we
think very highly of ourselves, and very
much in charge of our lives. Really? Having
no power over the endless thoughts and
without a choice, believing every single
one of them; is that freedom or slavery?

I may be a learned, scholarly or respected
person in the eyes of others, and yet, behind
If we notice our thoughts, if we become the veil of my body, no one can see the
conscious of them, we will see that they burning in my heart which comes owing to
mostly just go round and round in a loop. some jealousy or constriction in my heart as a
This is because there are grooves formed result of a narrow-mindedness. People can’t
out of past lives or past tendencies and the see the disappointment in my heart when I
thought-stream goes repeatedly over and am not respected in a way I think I should
over again in those grooves, mindlessly so have been. My mind is out of my control, my
to say, mechanically, dumbly. feelings and thoughts have the strings that
make me dance to their tunes, and all I can
Most often, we are shaken up or jolted from do is dance. I may devise a very refined way
this dumb circling by a serious incident in of disguising it so that others are completely
our life. The incident may be some addiction unaware of it.

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