Feelings and Thoughts

Feelings and thoughts are not apart from us, just as the waves of the ocean are not seperate from it. This tendency to separate everything into parts needs to be unlearnt. For starters, let us treat thoughts and feelings as one and the same. They are us. Let us treat them as friends. We don't have to control them. They help us to live a controlled, well regulated, balanced life.Let us not classify them as good and bad. They are like the postman, who brings messages to us. Should we be looking at the message irrespective of who the postman is and how he/she is dressed? Should we worry about the packaging so much, that we throw the content in the garbage can? Should we throw the baby with the bath water?

Let us listen to the thoughts and feelings as they appear on the mind's screen and then follow their guidence. if we do this life will proced on an even keel. When we don't pay heed to them, they as faithful friends, don't give up on us. They become persistent and louder, so that we may get the message through all the noise that we have surrounded ourselves with. That is what intense emotions stand for. It is like a mother shouting at her children, when they don't respond to her gentle calls. If we don't listen even at this stage, we get a spanking and may be deprivation of some kind. Is this punishment? Or the mother's concern for her children's well being, an outpouring of her love?
Let us treat ourselves as a loving mother would treat her children, with love at all times and with a firm gentleness.
Lots of love my child
Ganoba