The Presence of Thoughts and Fears!

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The mind is made up of the same vast emptiness as everything. A real problem arises when the mind interprets the presence of thoughts and fears to mean something is wrong with us and the world. However, if they are seen to be thoughts and fears just passing through, we are unlikely to identify ourselves with them.

Seeing life to be only and exactly what it is in this moment, is a powerful state of realization. That is how our vast essence sees everything. The presence of thoughts and fears means only that are present. Period. There is nothing whose presence is an indication that we are not the vastness we seek.

Suffering is caused not by the presence or absence of certain circumstances, but by our interpretation of them.  

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Keshav Howe

11 responses to “The Presence of Thoughts and Fears!”

  1. Betty

    “If you don’t have peace within yourself, it is very difficult to work for peace. (During the Vietnam War) our thinking was the other person is not our enemy. Our enemies are misunderstanding, discrimination, violence, hatred and anger. With that kind of insight we conducted the peace movement If you are filled with anger, you create more suffering for yourself then for the other person.

    When you are inhabited by the energy of anger, you want to punish, you want to destroy. That is why those who our wise do not want to say anything or do anything while the anger is still in them So you try to bring peace into yourself first. When you are calm, when you are lucid, you will see that the other person is a victim of confusion, of hate, of violence transmitted by society, by parents, by friends, by in the environment. When you are able to see that, your anger is no longer there…” Tao & Zen. August 1, 2021 Thich Nhat Hanh.

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