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The next time you’re feeling stress or discomfort, ask yourself whose business you’re in mentally,
It’s not our thoughts, but the attachment
to our thoughts, that causes suffering.
Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve bee...
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Thoughts just appear. They come out of nothing and go back to nothing, like clouds moving across the empty sky. They come to pass, not to stay. There is no harm in them until we attach to them as if they were true.
I don’t let go of my thoughts—I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
Once a painful concept is met with understanding, the next time it appears you may find it interesting.
Rather than understand the original cause—a thought—we try to change our stressful feelings by looking out
side ourselves. We try to change someone else, or we reach for sex, food, alcohol, drugs, or money in order to find temporary comfort and the illusion of control.
