I see

Today I was visiting another Blog. I was just browsing but came across a quote from a book that I have already read.

"You people today curl up in bed with their walkmen [iPods today] and listen to unwholesome music, songs that water seed of great sadness and agitation in them. when we practice Right View and Right Thinking, we will put all of our tapes and CDs that water only seeds of anguish into a box and not listen to them anymore."

Now I do this type of practice with audio and visual content already. Not really out of a practice, but more because I am drawn or guided to do this. Some of these audio and visual stimulus just make me feel unwell. But I digress here. As I read these words, it reached deeped within my mind and heart and a deeper understanding blossomed. At least for me. As I go through my day I encounter other forms of stimuli that have perhaps unwelcome affects upon me. Now is it the stimuli itself that is the root cause of my distress or is it how I deal with the stimuli that is the source of my distress? I believe that the later is more true. So here is what I have come to understand deeper today. I can take my thoughts or feelings that I am thinking or feeling, that water the seeds of discontent, and put them in the box and not experience them anymore or not listen to them anymore.

I don't think that I will lock away these feelings and thoughts like in supression but more in a way of release. I will put them in a box and release them out to the universe, out to the Divine.

Thank You