Today,
we’re making it nice and short: Feelings are produced in
the mind, as we said, either from downstairs (the body) or from upstairs (the
head brain, ie, the thinking process). So unless we are in control of our
thinking process, we cannot be in control of our feelings.
If we were complete
masters of our minds, we would be in control at all times; our minds would be
part of "us" and subject to “our” commands, the orders given by our own
Selves, our “I’s”. If you look at external things, you can see that we are
never complete masters of externals, or things outside of our own Selves. This
is because externals will always do whatever they have to do, subject to their
own circumstances and laws. We can only control what we have incorporated into our
own Selves, for example, our own minds, which must be thoroughly understood and
incorporated into our sense of “I”.
So
if we observe ourselves in our present state and see that what is happening is
that a succession of drifting, wandering, automatic and semi-automatic Thoughts, Emotions or Feelings seem to be
controlling us, making us feel whatever the external situation induces, then
obviously, "we" are lost, we are not in control of our minds, but
rather the contrary: our minds control us. Only occasionally does a volitional Thought actually work!
And
we have already seen that our “minds” are just a compendium of data, inputs,
interpretations, identifications, memories, and much of these from quite
unconscious origins, so who is doing the controlling, if any?
This
is the sad state of human beings, modern or otherwise. Because we believe lots
of Fake News, and confuse data input of any kind from the five sense with Reality. And data
input is always limited, and subject to interpretation, and who is doing the
interpreting?
Not
much of a way to face Reality, is it? But there is a solution to this… if we
really want to find it.
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