Disciplining the mind means
not allowing your thoughts to control you, to succumb to them or allow them to
overpower you.
You recognise that
thoughts in themselves have no power over you; it is you who has in the past
empowered them with your imposition of happiness or unhappiness. It is you who
has given your thoughts the power to prosecute you. In Sanskrit this is called jiva sristi.
Disciplining the mind
means to stand by your decisions. Disciplining the mind
does not mean removing all your thoughts; it means you do not allow any thoughts
to control you any more.
If you wish to sit
down in silence then you so, when a thought arises I want a cup
of coffee, or I must go and hang out the washing you remain sitting in silence,
not allowing your thoughts to control or dictate to you.
Perhaps you might like to make an intention,
every time your phone rings, rather than reacting straight away, pause catch
your thoughts, catch your breath and then consciously choose to pick up the
phone.
Each time you do this you break the chain of
constant thoughts and literally ‘have a breather’, a break from the constant
activity in the mind.
It is easier to master this discipline with
objects first as they do not react, humans do.
Om Shanti
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