IF THE EGO HAS
A THOUSAND ARGUMENTS… 💎
Most of us spend far too much time answering thoughts that never deserved a reply.
Training the mind may be much simpler than we make it.
Not filling it with better thoughts. Not winning arguments with it. Not becoming expert at identifying every form an untrue thought might take.
Because untruth is clever about changing clothes.
It can arrive as fear. Grievance. Judgement. An old memory. An imagined conversation. A perfectly reasonable complaint. Something someone should not have said. Something that should have happened differently twenty years ago.
It can even arrive dressed as wisdom.
The problem with examining every thought to decide whether it is true is that the negotiation has already begun.
There is another possibility.
NO COMMENT.
A thought wants to be followed.
No comment.
It wants justification.
No comment.
It produces evidence, witnesses and a very convincing closing argument.
No comment.
This isn't suppression. It isn't pretending reality hasn't happened. And it doesn't require the mind to become silent.
It is simply the refusal to automatically give every thought attention, agreement and belief.
That is where training matters.
At first, "no comment" has to be remembered.
With repetition, it begins to become the response itself.
The forms can keep changing. They will.
There is no need to learn every disguise.
Only to stop automatically believing every story the mind presents.
The ego can prepare its entire case.
No comment.
THERE IS NO NEED TO ENTER THE COURTROOM.
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