On Suffering
‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison’ Hamlet A thought without belief is harmless; it is our attachment to our thoughts that gives them power and causes suffering. No thought is self-employed, it cannot think itself, it auditions for our attention. A belief is a thought we have been attaching to repeatedly, often for years. Thoughts appear like clouds moving across the vast sky of our awareness. They are neutral until we invest
