OVERCOMING Encrypt THOUGHTS
Sometimes, while we are intensely engaged in something is a guest, which may be welcome at any other time, but at this moment he dokuchliv. In the same way at a time when we are busy trying to concentrate, "visitors" are crowding around us, otherwise - are welcome, others - unpleasant. What brings them here so late, and in what ways can we get them off?
Even a cursory study of these intrusive thoughts show that they are almost always busy with our "I" and are associated with any emotion or personal memories. We have noticed a constant tendency to look at things and people we meet, in terms of how they affect our own lives and as long as this tendency exists, could not help appearing to them feelings will take possession of our minds when we least all this desire. Each thing has its pleasant and unpleasant side, and the last will disappear for you only when you learn to look at people and events occurring super-personal.
As long as you look at them solely in terms of their impact on your own daily life and your feelings, your mind will fly away in all directions, driven by winds with subsequent everywhere. He will be surrounded by thoughts, emotions often cause anxiety, regret or resentment. These thoughts are mostly hidden, when you are absorbed any physical work, or any mental activity that has a physical basis, such as writings or reading a book, or while talking with others. But as soon as you are free from active and want to surrender to concentrate, especially if the concentration of the abstract, without a visible image or a particular form - you will feel the impact is unwelcome thoughts that are in this case, quite unpleasant. It is therefore extremely desirable to weaken and destroy these associations, which entail much trepidation, to achieve this could be the fact that people and things we have not dealt with in relation to our personal lives and in themselves as creators of their own destiny, which we can play a good or a negative role, depending on the request. When applied to life it means that you must train yourself to look at actions, motives, words and behavior of another person not in terms of your interests and your life, but from the standpoint of his life and his interests. When you look at the person you help and your own improvement, because the unity of human life is doing what everyone wins, doing good to another. If you consider people in terms of its benefits, you go against the Great Law, and the result will be anger and resentment that would undermine your strength and your peace of mind.
Disinterested attitude toward people prevents the accumulation of personal thoughts and the true concentration can not be achieved as long as you do not develop such a relationship to others. The state of mind at the time of concentration and his condition during the rest of the day affect each other, and if you can largely extinguish a concern, greed, envy, jealousy, anger, fear, pride, and irritability, you're equally simplify your concentration.
If you managed to say: I want you achieve success, and your concentration will not be disturbed irritating thoughts and emotions that inhabit the space around you. If you say: I want to, you can no longer be a slave to his desires, but if you find yourself in such a slavery, it would mean that in fact you are not wanted.
Understand the facts of your life and decide:
1) what the main purpose of your life,
2) What are your secondary objectives due to your duty, your legitimate pleasures and entertainment, your weaknesses or tendencies, to suppress that, you still do not feel strong enough
3) What things in your power and to what extent, and are not within your power, and think about how those things are in your power to be changed to match the main purpose of your life, and like other things (that are beyond your control ) can also be used for the same purpose.
The first should be the object of your focused thought or meditation, the second is the main part of your everyday life, and the third had to help carry out the first and second calmly and reasonably, that, on the one hand, not to strain under an intolerable burden, on the other hand - do not fall into the depression of the obstacles that may or may overcome or bypass. Take the habit each morning to sit quietly and think: what things or events you can meet during the day. Make a mental list of them and on each of them, ask yourself the following questions: Do not interfere if it is my main goal? Is it my secondary goals? It is in my power to change it or use it? What benefits can I learn from it? And when the day is over, check again the same list and ask yourself about every thing and every phenomenon: I used them for my main purpose, or for a minor? How it was in my power? What benefit I have derived from this thing or this phenomenon?
So when you sit for meditation, first ask yourself: "What shall I do?" And the answer turns with complete accuracy: "I will do such-and-so. Then ask yourself the question: "Why would I do such-and-so?" And he answers: "For such a purpose." And then ask yourself the question: "What are the responsibilities of my daily life?" List them briefly and then articulate the thought: "I do not have to care for them during my concentration." And finally, think: "What thoughts can put me in this time?" Give me all these ideas make for a review. Do not send them to quickly and dramatically, and quietly tell each in turn: "Hello, of course, your case is very urgent. I'll do it seriously and thoroughly later and try to give you full satisfaction, but now I'm busy with something else, and so - goodbye." In such manners, visitors will have to bow out in silence. They will see that you took them to their rightful place in the ordering of your life and that a small dose of thought, you tell them take a day, they will exist peacefully, yet not die.
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