Thought Awareness

Thoughts are neither right or wrong, but there are some that are not beneficial. If there’s thought awareness and they’re not attached to, the non-beneficial ones 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 there is thought awareness. 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 aren’t aware of it being unhealthy, 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 there isn’t thought awareness, this won’t be noticed and non-beneficial actions will be mostly in control. This is because most minds unconsciously default to satisfying yourself which doesn’t allow the objectivity one gets from thought awareness. When there isn’t thought awareness, thoughts arise one right after the other and the mind gets cloudier and cloudier. Eventually there will be attachment; most likely it will be to a non-beneficial thought. Only with a settled mind can there be thought awareness, and when there is it allows for life to be lived in the most beneficial of ways…