How can we keep our heart open when the mind is hostile?
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congenial so how can we keep our heart open when the mind is constantly against us often giving us ideas which are okay the mind is giving us ideas which are undesirable see it is not that all the programming of the mind is bad there is sometimes we get good ideas also we may call them as hunches sometimes we get inspiration and we find out this is very good solution so it’s not that it’s always bad so usually when we want to be open minded or open hearted that simply means that we are not judgemental either way if we are too naive then whatever thought pops up within us we just uncritically accept it now eat this watch this read this go here go there just accept it whatever it is so that uncritical acceptance is undesirable because we often are misled by that but that does not mean we have to go to the other extreme and we have blind rejection of everything there are good ideas also that come up so initially when we are not able to discern it’s good that if we get some thoughts some ideas rather than acting on them we record them and keep them if I get some thought should I do this then let me maybe I can just write it down somewhere or maybe I can just record it on my phone and after some time evaluate it so this is like we try to create some kind of pause button I don’t know whether I should do it or not this sounds good but I don’t want to act impulsively so let me pause it and if we pause after sometime when we are little more calm little more reflective then we can evaluate because usually when any thought comes from inside to us at that time it seems very good and we are not able to objectively evaluate it but if we let that moment pass and we don’t want to lose the idea so we record it and keep it and afterwards we can evaluate it and if it makes sense we act on it and if we do like this over a period of time we will ourselves be able to understand what are the times or what are the situations what are the times when my mind gives me misleading ideas and what are the situations when the mind gives me good ideas and then we will be able to tap the good ideas without being without choking or suppressing them.
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