Thoughts - Its like a cat and a ball of yarn

.......... Thoughts come and go.

They appear like a motion picture on the screen of your mind. Are the images real? No. They just seem real. They are like clouds that come and slowly gets blown away by the wind. But you have the power to make the thought go or stay a while and take a seat in your heart. If that thought stays, then you start to feed it energy, which makes it nice and fat.

Then the thought decides it doesn’t want to leave, because now the thought says ” I am a part of you now, I am what you feel and believe.” Is it true? No. Better yet, a thought is like a ball of yarn. And you are the cat, sitting there at ease, relaxed, until you see a ball of yarn coming your way. When the ball of yarn comes by, the desires arises to go and pounce on it and start playing with it. And when you do, you realize that you have created a huge mess with the ball of yarn. Now you are entangled with the yarn. It’s wrapped all around your head, your eyes, your neck and body. You become so wrapped up that you cannot move, you become bound.

Well, that is how thoughts are. They come through the contact of your senses, through your eyes, mind, taste buds, feelings, and hearing. Certain things can trigger a certain feeling, or image into your mind, because your mind is recalling a certain pass event. You can have a false perception of a person by totally misunderstanding their conversation. And by believing that thought that arises in your mind, which is interpreting the meaning of the conversation you will end up being annoyed or get into a huge debate or fight. By believing or reacting to a false thought like that, it is just like the cat chasing after the ball of yarn and ends up getting entangled with it.

Examine every thought, be mindful of what is being generating through your mind, watch the ball of yarn and do not chase and play with it because you will get entangled, thus become bound and lose your energy, lose your happiness and peace. When someone gets you upset, do not chase the ball of yarn, ignore it and maintain relaxed. When some one falsely accuses you, do not chase after the ball of yarn, ignore it and deal with it in a rational manner. When something reminds you of a past addiction, do not chase after the ball of yarn, ignore it and keep on being mindful. Be the Observer of your Mind, be the Master of your Domain, be the Lord of your Mind, be the Thinker, do not let your mind do the thinking for you, direct your thoughts just like the fletcher directs his arrow.

.... From wrdz