Thoughts arise, but they don’t have to unconsciously control you. If there isn’t awareness of this your thoughts will unconsciously be attached to which will make you sheepishly follow them…
If there isn’t awareness of your own thoughts, there won’t be anyway of knowing how much you unconsciously follow them. Without this awareness you’ll unconsciously be a follower (fearful) instead of a leader (truthful). Life doesn’t do anything directly to anyone, but thoughts arise and they determine what your life will be like. Awareness of your arisen thoughts is essential if you’re to not be unconsciously controlled by them. Thoughts are a natural part of life, they will arise. Theres no way of controlling the thoughts that arise. I have found that awareness of them allows for a split second of space that can be used to determine whether or not you become a follower or a leader; it’s the attachment to a thought that determines which you become, not the thought itself.
The Conditioned Mind is devious and unless there’s some awareness of how controlling it is, it will control you as if you were a sheep in a herd. So subtle is this that even if you are doing things that are seen as good, if these thoughts aren’t watched they will eventually control you; being controlled is being a follower regardless of what label is applied to the thought. This is why the Conditioned Mind is devious because of its subtleness in using whatever it can to keep you unconsciously controlled. Thoughts will arise, but they don’t have to control you. If there isn’t awareness of this, your thoughts will unconsciously be attached to which will make you sheepishly follow them…
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