2022-03-19 You Live In The Feeling Of Your Thoughts

“Mind is not brain. Neither is it a thing or a thought. It is a psychic force which acts as a catalyst and turns thought, whatever conscious or unconscious, into the reality you now see.” — Sydney Banks

To illustrate my point via an example, my young nephews often cry out when their play together turns sour: “He made me feel this way.” In that instance, I’m reminded how naive their perception is, albeit given their age.

However, I’ve heard the same conversations in adults who subscribe to the same thinking. Curiously, these same people endure intense pain and suffering, since they concede other people or life’s circumstances are the cause of their suffering.

They are not wrong, nor are they right. They are simply unaware of the inside-out paradigm and respond to life based on their level of awareness. Can you see how misleading and painful this line of thinking can be?

No one outside of you is responsible for the way you think and feel, if that thought is not already active within you.

They may try to impose their beliefs on you and succeed because you already subscribe to those beliefs and so they become active in you. You also needn’t follow the Buddhist Eightfold Path to overcome suffering, but realize you live in the feeling of your thoughts.

When you become aware and awake to your thoughts, you are less attached to the meaning they carry.

You become an outsider looking in on your thoughts. You are the witnesser and observer, rather than the person whose thoughts are being imposed upon them.