THOUGHT BONDAGE

[Pravin Kumar]

Thought Bondage:

When there's a need to reach for something because the mind becomes agitated, one is in bondage to that thought. Until this is seen, one will remain in bondage to the thought that peace is in the next thing reached for.

You will never find the peace you are seeking as long as you are in bondage to the thought of finding peace. Peace is something that's already within everyone, but because of the way our Conditioned Mind controls, we get stuck in the thought that peace is something outside of us. Unfortunately this bondage makes the very peace one is seeking impossible to manifest. This bondage is the reason one is constantly reaching for something from the outside and until this is seen, one will remain in bondage to the thought that peace is in the next thing reached for. Reaching for alcohol, gambling, drugs, sex, social status, programs, therapy, self help books and on and on is all the proof needed that one is in bondage. This can't be stressed enough as this bondage to your thoughts has to be seen if one is to experience true peace in their life.

It's impossible for the thought of peace to provide peace. What does have to happen if one is to experience peace is there has to be an understanding of why you're not at peace; that there isn't peace is only because of one's inability to just be. When the need to reach for something arises, the bondage to this thought begins. This bondage is a vicious cycle that's very difficult to break free from. Peace isn't something attained or achieved so it's in doing less that peace arises. To many people get lost in the thought of trying to find peace. Since peace is already within you, the thought about finding it needs to be discarded so the bondage of this thought can fall away. This is not easy to see, but it's why I write. Understand though, I don't write to help anyone find peace, I write so the bondage to the thought of trying to find peace can be seen for what it is; the cause of why one isn't at peace.

MICHAEL CUPO