Thought Awareness

Thoughts are neither right nor wrong, but there are some that are more beneficial. If there is thought awareness and they are 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 there’s 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’re not aware of 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 there isn’t thought awareness 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 thought awareness. When there isn’t thought awareness, 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 a non-beneficial thought. Only with a settled mind can there be thought awareness, and when there is it allows for the energy to live life in the most beneficial of ways…