Pick a thought, any thought. Okay, I'll pick a thought that seems like it will stick to me for a while...just waiting for it to come around on the wheel...
Aha! "I'm not ambitious enough."
All right, you can pick your own thought. I'll stay with this one, for now.
Let's take a closer look at the thought and its possible manifestations. In my case, that thought, if I choose to indulge it, will inevitably lead to "I should be making more money," which in turn will lead to more and more thoughts along that line.
It's an "interesting" thought, because my mind believes it has locked on to a problem which it can somehow solve. We could go on, following the progressions of our chosen thought until we finally got sick of it, or seriously worried.
Instead, let's just sit back and look at the original thought frozen in time, so to speak.
What I mean is, let's look at it in complete freedom. Just for now, I will accept my thought without judgement, aversion, grasping or any other reaction. Just taking it in as if it were a cloud floating by. Maybe it even waves at me, or winks. Or growls.
What is the essence of this thought frozen in time?
There's nothing I can say about it - I'm choosing for the moment to examine without reacting or forming any opinion about it. So what is its essence?
"I'm not ambitious enough." (or whatever your thought is).
Who says it?
What does it feel like?
Does it have a texture? A flavor? An aroma?
Tomorrow, I'll explore this further. For now, let's just enjoy this quiet exploration on our own.
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