Seeds

There’s an ocean, in which, we exist – as thoughts. There’s not a single moment when thoughts don’t come or they don’t exist.

We should understand that thoughts are inevitable part of existence – generated by body. And just as any part of our body may be studied for better efficiency, same is the case of our thoughts. What is required to be learnt from such a study?

Firstly, that our imagination (perception and conception of reality) is governed by the nature of thoughts – so it is changeable and is the most important part of controlling our experience. In other words, our ‘self talk’ determines our nature of experience.

Thoughts contain a variety of feelings, emotions and intellect. Any dimension of feeling that one can think of, is bound to happen in any one of us. It means, that the potential of experiencing a situation and visualizing a reality is limitless. It means I am made of countless qualities of thoughts – good and evil and both exist as realities OR one cannot exist without the other. Thus, if I focus on good, it is at the cost of not concentrating on the bad. Thus, whatever we choose to think at a given moment, is at the cost of excluding all other dimensions of thoughts. Hence, choice is upto us to focus on those thoughts that would be beneficial.

Thoughts need to be managed, otherwise they create havoc in us. Herein the idea of disciplining the mind becomes important. Focus, and discipline become vital for staying steady.

Thoughts exist despite any given external situation. They will arise in the mind and they need to go. The Buddhist philosophy says that seeds of thoughts exist in us. By our decisions, certain seeds sprout to become trees and fruits – beneficial or malevolent. Any seed has a potential to become a tree having a particular characteristics – white, black or grey. Again, this means we need to observe what we are thinking and what seeds are we encouraging to grow.

Ego or anger and any such emotion produces many unnecessary sub thoughts that pollute our understanding of the situation or our relationship with the external situation or our true nature. It is a fog – a dense fog. For clarity purposes, we need to observe and question each unnecessary sub thought that we unnecessarily generate. It is unnecessary, because it is not needed – for our action. By this practice, many thoughts are destroyed/ dissolved and what remains is what should remain.

Thoughts mean sequence. A particular sequence and a particular nature of thought is bound to create compassion. Find out.

Thoughts are extremely fast to grasp and very subtle. Yet, the moment we experience anger, we should immediately scan our own thoughts and decode. WE will realize that we were only generating some kind of a self talk.

By being aware of the tendency of self talk, we learn to manage it, focus on the benevolent thoughts and learn to accept the nature of our existence. This becomes a crucial step in our life – accepting that thoughts would arise and one needs to nurture he good thoughts as much as possible.