54. How to throw away thoughts? An easy explanation.

Write a letter to the office asking for ten days leave and then continue this page. Just for only ten days. If you adopt what is stated hereafter, your life will change thoroughly. You will become a new person, looking at a new world.

Just like the air-bubbles coming out continuously from the apparatus in a corner of the fish tank thoughts are continuously originating from some corner within you.

The aim of this meditation is only to reach up to these thoughts and catch them up.

Do each step of this meditation carefully once, convert it into an experience, and then enter into the next one.

• Firstly enter into the tank called the body.
• Within yourself swim through your consciousness like a fish.
• Next, observe the thoughts as they arise without stopping the flow or participating in the thoughts. Feel continuously thoughts originating, see these thoughts feel that and confirm it.
• Next, as these thoughts originate, then itself bring them to your attention. First, you will observe the thoughts that came. As the awareness expands you will observe the thoughts that are now coming. Further as you do the exercise more and more sincerely, you will observe the thoughts that are going to come.
• Just like the person, who has learnt how to catch a sparrow with bare hands, after learning the art of catching the thoughts merely by being aware and conscious, you can move on to the next stage of this meditation exercise. Go and search as to wherefrom the thoughts are born. Go to the birth place of thoughts. If you have come this far it means you have actually touched the underground cellar inside.

The reason: The birth place of thoughts is the same as the seat of ego!

The karmas, stated by the Hindu religion, sins stated by Christianity and 'the root cause for sufferings' as indicated by various faiths – The hiding place for all these is this location only.

The Tao religion refers to this as, 'Entrance to hell'.

One may become afraid as one enters this cellar room.

Don't be afraid. If you just overcome this fear you will be drawn into the pure consciousness which is called heaven where peace and bliss reign. This is possible only for any one who does it with sincerity.

You do not express your anger every time you get angry with someone. In some circumstances you do not think it is appropriate or conducive for you to express your anger. When you are unable to express your anger openly in such circumstances, what do you do? Don't you throw away those angry words and feelings which arose within you on such occasions?

Having gone into the birth place of thoughts, begin to throw away all the thoughts that originate from there. What do you do when you are unable to openly express your anger in some circumstances; you throw away the angry words that originate within you being unable to express it openly. Same way throw away all your thoughts that come from within by going to the source of thoughts.

Whether it is lust, anxiety or happiness or whatever it may be, whatever comes, just throw it away.

All of these thoughts are trash remaining inside you. Don't stop this action until all the garbage is exhausted.

Until you get bliss, let this continue.

Spend 10 days continuously for this one meditation only.

Once all the registered distresses get exhausted, you will find that bliss will begin to rise up and flow like spring water.

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