The thought that wakes you at three in the morning didn’t come from nowhere. Part Five of The Mind You Didn’t Choose — on everything that comes in through the senses, what fourteen minutes of bad news does to your own worries, what the mind replays at the edge of sleep, and why the company you keep is the strongest input of all.
A thought that comes once passes. A thought that comes ten thousand times becomes you. Part Three of The Mind You Didn’t Choose — on how a repeated thought turns into a belief, why the twenty-one day rule was never a law, and the two questions that loosen a belief you never chose.
A thought is not a private event. It arrives in the body at the same moment it arrives in the mind — and usually the body notices first. Part Two of The Mind You Didn’t Choose, on what a thought costs, and why the replay costs more than the event.
You believe you are the one thinking. Most of the day, you are not. Part One of The Mind You Didn’t Choose — on the gap between a thought arriving and you becoming it, and why every practice that follows depends on finding it.
A poem in dedication to Guru, the divine guide of the soul: Your face lights up my whole world Only in your presence do I settle Your laughter destroys the evils of three worlds Your words guide the soul in dark nights I am so insignificant – Unworthy of your love And lucky that your …