SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT 83: Programming our mind — Robina Courtin
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We Can Mould Our Mind
- The key point in. . .from the Buddhist psychological point of view – and the Buddha's expertise is the mind: that might surprise us, you know? – is that. . .we can,
- one: become familiar with it quite deeply, we can drill down and become ever more familiar with what's going on – all this seeming chaos –
- but, two: we can sort it out, we can edit it, we can be our. . .we can mold our mind, as Lama Zopa says, into any shape we like.
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Our Biggest Problem
But we have to have confidence in that. Our problem is whatever thought pops up – especially the negative ones – we believe they're true, you know? This is the worst crime against ourselves: we believe the negative thoughts. I mean, but they're just thoughts and their habits, you know?
So then we need to look at them, assess them carefully, and we need to distinguish the thoughts, we need to distinguish between the facts and the fictions.
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We can actually proactively have positive thoughts.
In other words, we have thoughts that are reasonably valid, that are useful, that cause us to be content and happy and help us help others: that's called love, kindness, forgiveness, generosity, blah blah blah.
And then we have low self-esteem and anger and fears and anxiety and jealousy: these ones, you know? But somehow the unhappy ones seem to come without being invited, don't they? But the other point is, we can actually actively, proactively have positive thoughts.
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I can turn it into whatever mind I like.
So when we understand that – and the person we become is created by our thoughts – then we can start to have this confidence. That it's my mind, I can become familiar with it and I can turn it into whatever mind I like.
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Learn To Reprogram Your Mind.
We're not discussing the brain, we're discussing the actual cognitive process itself. So we have to become familiar with it and then we have to have the courage not to be scared of what's there, you know? And then to learn to. . .to reprogram ourselves, write new scripts – that's the way of putting it. But it's a long term job. We have to have courage and we have to have patience, but it's possible.
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CURATOR'S NOTE
We all have the power to reprogram our mind.
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