(c) 2011 Howard McQueen
Like a job you would be loath to show up for,
like a bad dream that seems to want to stick and not go away,
what you have grasped and hold to be your identity
can be our very own mind-spun spider web,
catching and binding us to suffering.
If no web is spun,
there is nothing to create resistance.
Nothing becomes snagged.
The endless stream of thoughts and concepts,
free of judgments,
are allowed to flow on by.
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Thoughts and concepts are 100% mind stuff.
Judgments, however, act as spider webs, showing us our attraction (and ultimately our repulsion as well) to our mind stuff.
If you express (fascination or repulsion) you also awaken its polar opposite, (repulsion or fascination) and then both become internalized within your mind, binding and blinding you to suffering. This is where the seed of conflict is planted.
That which you have identified as you is believed to be incomplete (or likely defective). Then that you begins wanting something that is missing, or avoiding something fearful. The mind spins up an incredible storm of psychic energy to address this. The crystal clear river bottom of peace becomes murky, the river agitated, and what is you takes on these mind-made attributes - and now there is suffering.
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