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Cutting off family & trying to quiet my brain
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 754418" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>This was a brilliant post Wise. I had to stop myself because I was quoting every single line. I want to know what resources you are using (books, websites, etc.) as teachers. I am trying to adopt the same perspective and practice, but am not as apt a student, or my resistance as greater, or both.</p><p></p><p>I found the following suggestions especially powerful, for me:</p><p></p><p> Thank you.</p><p></p><p>I just want to add this. My mind is not always my friend. I recognize now that my mind and its thoughts are based upon interpretations of past experiences, events, and prejudices that may not apply at all to the present or even be true. Who I am or want to be now, is way different than even a month ago, let alone a lifetime ago. And yet my mind tries to call the shots, assuming it knows all, and can foresee the future. If I listen to it, I will be constraining myself to repeat a past I would like to move beyond and I will be denying present experience. Both are outcomes I know longer want.</p><p></p><p>If I listen to my mind, I will be repeating the past, repeating past patterns and projecting past limits. Instead of free, my future will be constrained to what has been. Freedom exists by living from the present. Wise shows us how to open to it.</p><p></p><p>By focusing on what I feel right now, finding the place beneath thought, I have the possibility of connecting to my true self and needs, and also to others from this place. By living in this moment, I can construct a life full of potential, possibility and peace, free of lack, constraint, indecision, should, guilt and doubt. So can you. But all of this requires escaping the domination of the mind. It's not to throw off thought altogether. Thought has it's place. But I don't want to permit it to dominate and unnecessarily limit me.</p><p></p><p>Thank you so very much for this thread. It is exactly what I needed today, this minute.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 754418, member: 18958"] This was a brilliant post Wise. I had to stop myself because I was quoting every single line. I want to know what resources you are using (books, websites, etc.) as teachers. I am trying to adopt the same perspective and practice, but am not as apt a student, or my resistance as greater, or both. I found the following suggestions especially powerful, for me: Thank you. I just want to add this. My mind is not always my friend. I recognize now that my mind and its thoughts are based upon interpretations of past experiences, events, and prejudices that may not apply at all to the present or even be true. Who I am or want to be now, is way different than even a month ago, let alone a lifetime ago. And yet my mind tries to call the shots, assuming it knows all, and can foresee the future. If I listen to it, I will be constraining myself to repeat a past I would like to move beyond and I will be denying present experience. Both are outcomes I know longer want. If I listen to my mind, I will be repeating the past, repeating past patterns and projecting past limits. Instead of free, my future will be constrained to what has been. Freedom exists by living from the present. Wise shows us how to open to it. By focusing on what I feel right now, finding the place beneath thought, I have the possibility of connecting to my true self and needs, and also to others from this place. By living in this moment, I can construct a life full of potential, possibility and peace, free of lack, constraint, indecision, should, guilt and doubt. So can you. But all of this requires escaping the domination of the mind. It's not to throw off thought altogether. Thought has it's place. But I don't want to permit it to dominate and unnecessarily limit me. Thank you so very much for this thread. It is exactly what I needed today, this minute. [/QUOTE]
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