We would not want to stop this. But what we do want to stop is the habit of misinterpreting our world. This habit is very common, and one that most of us have. And it is a habit that makes us miserable.
Every day our mind is doing one of the following:
- correct perception
- mistaken perception
- sleep
- imagination
- memories
When our mind dwells on negative thoughts and thought patterns, which may have been created by mistaken perception (misinterpretation), imagination or memories, we do not see through clear glass, but through dirty, marked glass that distorts our vision of the real world around us.
These thoughts then make us unhappy.
We do not want to stop all thoughts, just the misinterpretations that frequently make us unhappy. We want to have clear minds. If we can notice the marks on the glass which distort our view, we can then clean it, remove the distortions, so that we have clear, true vision of our world and everything in it. This will then make us happy.
Meditation and the peace we find there is the key.
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