.Minds journey towards the depth of the sub-conscious is somehow blocked by the thoughts lying dormant at the surface of the mind. Alert attention has to penetrate these ‘surface’ thoughts lying hidden as fears, anxieties, resentments and other emotions in order to go into the deeper layers of the mind.
Is awareness nothing more than mere alertness of the network of the nervous system? Or is there an attention that does not depend on the alertness of the nerves and the physical brain? Is pure awareness beyond the mind? When the mind is quiet and still it appears so.
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To see a thing straight without the accompanying imagery and emotional content is what is seeing the real. Any other sight is unreal.
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Emotions stir up thoughts. But thoughts are constituted of memory. Therefore thoughts actually erupt from memory when emotions trigger them. If one puts up or stays with the condition of the body and its emotions, whether it is pain, discomfort, pleasure or happiness, physical or mental there can perhaps be inner peace all through. One has to be watchful when the emotions get converted into thoughts. Intellect with its discrimination can control and manipulate thoughts at this stage to one’s advantage.
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