Observed Thoughts

Thoughts are neither right or wrong, but there are some that are more beneficial. If thoughts are observed and not attached to, the non-beneficial ones will dissipate as passing clouds…

Thoughts come and go just as passing clouds. If you’ve ever sat and observed clouds, you’ve noticed the clouds eventually dissipate; here one minute, gone the next. It’s the same when thoughts are observed, they arise, there’s no denying that, but unless there’s attachment to them, they dissipate. The question to ask, is are your thoughts beneficial? Your answer is a key factor in how you will live your life. Let’s say you have a thought to do something unhealthy, if you’re not observing the thought, the benefit factor of it and the next step becomes an unhealthy action.

There’s no way to be in the thoughtless realm continuously, at least this has been my experience, it’s more so to learn if your thoughts are beneficial or not. If your thoughts aren’t observed, this won’t be noticed and non-beneficial actions will be more in control. This is because most minds unconsciously default to satisfying yourself which doesn’t allow the objectivity one gets from simply observing your thoughts. When thoughts aren’t observed they arise one right after the other and the mind gets cloudier and cloudier. Eventually there will be attachment; most likely it will be to non-beneficial thoughts. Only with a settled mind can thoughts be observed and when they are it allows for the energy to live life in the most beneficial of ways…