Thoughts will arise, but they don’t have to control you. If there isn’t awareness of your thoughts they will unconsciously be attached to which will lead you to automatically being led by them...
If there isn’t awareness of your own thoughts, there won’t be anyway of knowing how unconsciously led you are by them. Without this awareness you'll be unconsciously taken on an unconscious 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 to not be unconsciously led 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 a sliver of space that can be used to determine whether or not the thought leads you or not; remember it’s the attachment to a thought that causes suffering not the thought itself.
The Conditioned Mind is cunning and unless there's some awareness of how much your being led by your 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 are 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 lead you. Thoughts will arise, but you don’t have to be lead by them. If there isn’t awareness of this, your thoughts will unconsciously be attached to which will lead you to automatically being led by them...
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