When I don’t question my own unquestioned thoughts about reality, I subconsciously assume them to be true. When I believe them to be true, I do not have the thought that they could be false. What happens then? I will inevitably experience the blocks of negativity (fear, anger, impatience, resentment, unworthiness, arrogance, jealousy, etc)
Then the desire arises to get rid of that emotional-mental discomfort and because I haven’t questioned the validity of any stressful thought, both the thoughts and feelings get projected into my outer world. I’m polluting my world. The person, the place or the thing is now to blame for my discomfort & pain. Blame must happen, because the mind has been living a lie, not seeing that the pain is caused by unquestioned thoughts assumed as truth. Any unquestioned thought believed to be true, is intolerable to hold, and pain will result. Unknowingly, I will perpetuate this suffering by continually believing the next untrue thought. For eg. …’that I should change. That the other person should change. This should be different. That should be different. The world should change.’
To argue with Reality is insanity.
In truth, there is no self to change; no other to change; no world to change. The only change that needs to occur is in the mind: to see the last thought that brought stress, and to question that thought.
Be present to this process. See that the thought itself is creating your stress and not anything else.
“So & so should make me feel loved & happy.”
Question its assumed truth. Be the Question and meet the unquestioned thought with Love and Understanding.
Is it true? Can you absolutely know that it’s true? How do you feel when you believe that thought? Who would be be without that thought?”
Be quiet and meditate on the thought. Be in the Silence of the Question. Be the Ocean of Love, and wash out the unquestioned thought. Bring the truth to it: That nothing is real. Nothing is true. See how the mind rejects that. See how the mind instantly denies the possibility of that statement. See how the mind convinces itself that something needs to be true & real. “It just must! says the mind. How can I be happy if nothing is true?
See the falsehood of an entity hiding inside a thought. There’s no one there. Look at this thought: “That person stresses me out!”
Bring the Questions to the mind, and watch the miracle healing happen.
Give it a chance. Feel the relief of the truth. Watch the stress (of believing in a stressful thought) melt away. Return to your natural state of gratitude, happiness, peace & bliss. Now that is the Real Solution to any perpetual & imagined problem.
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