Monday, March 30, 2009

A Buddhist's Diary March 19th 2009

Well to get back to the eightfold path. What about 'right thought'?

Even if we know what right thought is, how do we practice it? I know I have written before about the impossibility of controlling one's thoughts. Oliver Sacks(?) hasn't written anything about how thought originates that I have seen. I know that I think in words, even though my emotions show clearly through subconscious body language, tone of voice etc. I have always been a proponent of suppression. This does not win approval. It is self damaging, I am told. It can be, but I still firmly believe that relentlessly crushing 'bad' thought can eventually change it.
Is subconscious thought in words? I think it must be, or the wonderful phenomenon of having the answer to a problem spring fully formed into one's head would not occur.

Life is too short. We should not allow ourselves to be led around by the nose by a bad thought.

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