Day 127 - 4:06am

I was struck the other day by this thought. It began with me remembering in my pocket-notebook that I have no control over anything outside my mind, which is a bit of a misleading thought since nothing is outside my mind, but in the dualistic Western sense of reality it is very important to remember, all the same. What happens to me, whether by specific people or circumstance, is beyond my control. This lead to some other interesting thoughts and a hasty ditty, and I finally got around to typing them out of my pocket-notebook:

I must remember
I have no control over what happens to me, or what actions others take upon me, except to control my own actions. I can only control what happens within my mind - which is everything.
Be the person you would have all other people be, and your aura will inspire emulation.
How could we think the outer world is anything but smoke when all that exists beyond the body, speech, and mind is free of our influence, as well as our experience - in fact it will never be a part of our reality at all yet we postulate and use the imagination to construct elaborate delusions about the surrounding expanse of space and the activity it contains - while really all of experience significant to us is happening right there in our mind, our skull.
No! A second thought.
The mind is completely free from the body - it exists elsewhere entirely - but it is aware of the body. It is stuck to it with karmic tar and deluded into thinking it belongs to the body and its transient world, somehow. It is synced with the body to preserve experience and reality - scared to be free - tied to Samsara/body by negative karmas, habits, and attachments (karmic tar).

Be free
Be free
Freedom is not law-bound
Freedom is not suffering
Freedom is not harming
Be free
Be free
When we are free we will grow
wings of compassion
and fly to the aid of our fellow sentient beings