Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering (Beyond Suffering Book 1)

The second point I want to make is that this statement is not suggesting that the mere presence of thoughts is what is causing our unhappiness and pain. The presence of thoughts is, in and of itself, harmless. It is our relationship with thoughts that is the core issue. It is the way we interact with thoughts that causes all the confusion, doubt, c

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It is not our thoughts but the attachment to our thoughts that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

when the mind understands its whole process and so comes to an end, that is, when thinking ceases, then there is creation, and it is that creation which makes us happy. To be in that state of creation is bliss, because it is self-for-getfulness in which there is no reaction as from the self.