Day Two Hundred and Twenty Eight

I have a couple of perspectives on encountering hindrances, thoughts in particular. I often look at them as things which are confronting me with some power of their own, some kind of independent life. When I sit with them for a while, and if I have some success being quiet, they appear less substantial.

That which creates the view I have of the world does not like being left without these thoughts, these ideas of how things are. The mind resists exploration about what it is holding tightly. The mind says that it must return to balance by creating something else. But the real balance is between the mind and awareness, something the mind will not agree to let happen, at least not with a tight grip on it's vision.