No Control

Forty years ago, I read a book by my first meditation teacher, called 'How to Control your Emotions.' I desperately wanted help. I'm grateful. However it's now obvious that that idea is an illusion. The I that wants control is what's out of control. Adyashanti points this out...

"The reality is that we don't have any control; the ego has no control over how reality unfolds and reveals itself. How is it the case that the ego doesn't have control? Simply because ego is merely a thought in your mind. It's an image. It's a way your mind references itself, thinks about itself, and creates a sense of self in the first place.

If your whole egoic self is merely a product of imagination, a mechanical result of thoughts linking themselves together, then it's obvious that a thought doesn't have any control. A thought is just something that occurs. It happens and then passes away."

~ Adyashanti

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Photo -- The Huka Falls are a set of waterfalls on the Waikato River that drains Lake Taupo in New Zealand.