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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  All your "vehicles" are thought-driven. Therefore they are also the workings of the LOA. That's what you're not seeing.
For example, you may decide: "To become `better' in [ ], I will ... exercise regularly .... make new friends ... relax more ..... pray to God .... take a time management course ..... work harder .... take a walk ..... buy a new camera .... be kind to animals .... keep my desk tidy".
But all these activities are processes of your consciousness. All these activities are driven by your mind. In fact, the very decision to pursue any of these activities is also a process of your mind. The belief that any of these activities will help you, is a belief, and therefore a process of your mind.
Once you understand that the mind is the be-all and end-all, you may well see that you might as well cut to the chase and get to the root of the issue, whatever your issue may be. And the root is always in your own mind.
Even the idea of "better" is in your mind. You say that the goal is to become "better". What is "better"? What is "worse"? Why? What are your reasons for believing or feeling this? Once again ... it goes back to your own mind. |
The decision to become better is conscious and requires thought. Disciplining yourself requires thought. The result is action that requires no thought. This is Buddha Nature. There is no thought because there is no thing to think.
You seem caught in the process of meditation and inquiry and are not free of it. What you are describing is the path to liberation, not the experience of liberation itself.
Cheers,
Eisho