Embrace Thoughts

You can actually learn to embrace any thoughts running through your head and thereby transcend them. Allow them to be, but don’t identify with them because those thoughts are not you. Begin to interact with them like an observer. It’s been said that the mind is like a hyperactive monkey. The more you fight with the monkey, the more hyper it becomes. So instead just relax and observe the monkey until it wears itself out.

Simple Explanation

We are usually unaware of the process of thinking that is going on in our heads. We repeat the same thoughts as a matter of habit. They come and we do not resist them. We welcome them even if they are unpleasant. We get used to our thoughts and habits, even if we do not admit it. In this way they become stronger and more powerful. As our minds recreate our past, we find that the present is always the mirror of the past. Then nothing new happens and we complain that life is always the same, that nothing changes. Weird, foolish, tragic and funny at the same time, isn't it? By being aware of your thoughts and feelings, it becomes easier to be a little more detached. When you are detached you become able to choose how to react to people, events and circumstances, which can save yourself a lot of inconvenience, trouble and embarrassment.

~Remez Sasson

It is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things.

Be serene in the oneness of things and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves.

When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.

Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know.

Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.

Do not remain in the dualistic state -- avoid such pursuits carefully.

When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when such a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way.

Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going.

Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.

When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness.

There is one Dharma, not many; distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant.

Rest and unrest derive from illusion; with enlightenment there is no liking and disliking.

Gain and loss, right and wrong: such thoughts must finally be abolished at once.

Don't waste time with doubts and arguments.

If you don't have faith in yourself, then you'll be forever in a hurry trying to keep up with everything around you, you'll be twisted and turned by whatever environment you're in and you can never move freely. But if you can just stop this mind that goes rushing around moment by moment looking for something, then you'll be enlightened.

More than actual pain, it is our fear of pain that torments us. Similarly, we feel happy not so much by actual pleasure as by our belief that taking a certain step will lead to pleasure. In effect, we are not driven by reality but by our perception of reality. If we honestly want to unfetter our lives we must learn to manage our fears by overriding preconditioned set of responses and transform our fears into power. This is possible if we live our lives in the present and respond to things that are real, not to our fears of what once was or might someday be.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

~Eleanor Roosevelt