Working with thought
Thoughts are just displays of the mind
The nature of thoughts and emotions
However strong thoughts may seem, they are just thoughts and will eventually dissolve back into emptiness
However strong thoughts may seem, they are just thoughts and will eventually dissolve back into emptiness. Once you recognize the intrinsic nature of the mind, these thoughts that seem to appear and disappear all the time can no longer fool you. Just as clouds form, last for a while, and then dissolve back into the empty sky, so thoughts arise, remain for a while, and then vanish in the voidness of mind; in reality, nothing at all has happened.
~Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, quote from On The Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice from the Great Tibetan Masters, by Matthieu Ricard
Three points
Choices
No other understanding is necessary
Always remember, put the glass down
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All you have feared at any time in your life is no more than a thought that you believed into existence
Thoughts, as writing on water
The Tibetans sometimes describe thoughts as writing on water, in essence empty, unsubstantial, and transient
Jon Kabbat-Zinn
Be mindful of intention
Be mindful of intention.
Intention is the seed that creates our future.
Jack Kornfield
No thought, no reflection
~Tilopa~
Fuzzy curly things floating through the air
As we go through life, we accumulate layers of ideas about who we are and what we’re capable of achieving. As these layers accumulate, we tend to become increasingly rigid in our identification with certain views about ourselves and the world around us. Gradually, we lose our connection to the basic openness, clarity, and love that is the essence of our being. Our awareness is overwhelmed by hundreds of different thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Some we latch onto because they’re attractive fantasies or scary preoccupations; some we try to shove away because they’re too upsetting or because they distract us from whatever we’re trying to accomplish at the moment.
Instead of focusing on some of them and pushing away others, though, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity. Feathers — the thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that pass through our awareness — are harmless. Some may be more attractive than others, some less attractive; but essentially they’re just feathers. Look at them as fuzzy, curly things floating through the air.
As you do so, you begin to identify with the awareness that is watching the feathers and allow yourself to be okay with whatever feathers happen to be flying at the time. You’re accepting them without latching on to them or trying to shove them away. This simple act of acceptance — which may only last a few seconds — offers a taste of that open space of essence love, an acceptance of the warmth that is your basic nature, the heart of your own being.
– Tsoknyi Rinpoche
from the book “Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love”
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Not seeing thoughts as simple phenomena
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
– Chögyam Trungpa
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts
“Thoughts are unsteady, they wander at their own will. The task is to quiet them, and by calming them to find happiness. An untroubled mind, a mind beyond judgments, watches and understands.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother.”
~Buddha~
The Dhammapada
Like dreams of flower in air
Rest and unrest derive from illusion;
with enlightenment, there is no liking and disliking.
All dualities come from ignorant inference.
They are like dreams of flowers in air:
foolish to try to grasp them.
Gain and loss, right and wrong;
such thoughts must finally be abolished at once.
– Sengcan
Nothing to be grasped
When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear it as clothing, or put it on as an ornament. It arises through the conjunction of various factors, but there is nothing about it that can be grasped. Likewise, thoughts that arise in the mind have no tangible existence or intrinsic solidity. There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave.
– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book “The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva”
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