A 12 Minute Meditation on Our Relationship to Thoughts
Collecting Art, take a look All day long, mostly without our even noticing, the mind is generating thousands of thoughts. What is our relationship to thoughts? Not only does the mind have a mind of its own, but, literally, we can have thoughts about not having thoughts. We get in our heads that if there were no thoughts we would be at peace, but even that’s just another thought. It’s very easy to villainize thought as some kind of enemy of practice. We get in our heads that if there were no thoughts we would be at peace, but even that’s just another thought. So, we’ll be using a noting practice, where we practice seeing thoughts clearly as they arise, gently noting them, and returning to the breath and body. If there is no mindfulness of mind, we live in a world completely defined by our thoughts. Here, we let go of that orientation and just see things as they are. When we see how compulsively these thoughts repeat themselves, we begin to understand the circular, repetitive nature of ...