Every Thought

Every thought:

every thought belongs - it's a simple message, that we're are not at battle with ourselves, waging a war within our very own minds. There is some peace in this acceptance. Yet this isn't a mindful cure all for all that ails us, it's not a claim to heal a mental illness, nor restore us to a time we felt more secure and in control. It's just a pointer, a nod towards the true and always fact that we are whole. 

every thought belongs.

it's the belief that we are in control of certain things that causes great harm; that we can banish negativity and bring our lives a magical, charmed existence. If we only think a positive way, or deny to ourselves the reality of what is going through our minds. But we're not in control and it's more true to say that we're not even the originator of what we're thinking. 

thoughts happen, and mostly on their own. 

so we let them, and this is what the Buddha likened as our pure, blue sky mind - we are spacious and aware and every thought belongs as easy as every cloud. The sky is never harmed by the violence of any storm, always untouched, clear in the seamless nature of its hold. 

and this is where we are; blue sky and the hold for clouds and storm. It's where we find ourselves, a willingness to simply be present to our hurt, and even accept our denial at this time. There are no distinctions to what's allowed. This is to ease our battles, accepting that they're here, and that we're not broken by their presence. 

every thought belongs for whatever length its stay - and through the grace of this allowing, the blue sky of our essential nature; we find too that we are whole, clear, at ease with every cloud and storm. 

~

Peace, Eric