Tag: thought

The conveyor belt

Posted on by philipdodson

One step at a time is all that life requires.

All too often our mind is already several steps, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and sometimes even years ahead of the moment we are in.

This results in us not even being conscious of the moment we are in.

The mind is perhaps looking forward to dinner or a date or a holiday (maybe not now!!) so the ‘ordinary’ moment is denied and not noticed. The trouble is, when we are at dinner or the date, instead of appreciating that moment, the mind has already moved on.

This process, if left uninterrupted, leads to a lifetime of never appreciating our real life that is now.

Our mind can become a conveyor belt that whisks us past our real life in a constant blur of thought.

Stop the conveyor and jump into this moment.

Dramas

Posted on by philipdodson

The mind needs dramas and when we feed it and energise them, then it will search and create the next one.

Even when we say ‘I don’t care anymore’ we become attached to the story of ‘I don’t care anymore’ and become angry when someone disturbs that.

We can only escape from the trickery of the mind and its ego by simply observing thought and letting it be without resistance, otherwise, the moment we acknowledge it, then the powerful force that is our mind takes control.

The greatest test is to just be, and when we just be and become the observer, then peace and silence is what we experience within.

Dramas are of the mind and involve the mind blaming others and other circumstances, it is a defence mechanism for its fragile ego.

Acceptance removes resistance and observation of thought rather than becoming it is the key to ending dramas. dramas are not others, they are our mind.