How meditation creates a warzone

a short (funny) thought on thoughts

—

Meditation is supposed to be very calming. That’s what the kids are saying these days. But since I started meditating, I now have a war zone in there.

The first thing you learn about meditation is that you have to “notice your thoughts.”

Notice your thoughts.

Does one thought get to notice all other thoughts? I want to be that thought. I don’t want to be the thought that gets noticed. Imagine if you’re the thought that gets noticed. Now, all of your Thought friends are like:

“What are you doing going and getting noticed. Couldn’t you have been a bit quieter? You ruined our cover. We were hanging out, smoking in the corner and now we die. Watch yourself next time. You know when she’s closing her eyes in the middle of the day, that you can’t be dancing around like normal!!”

And the thought that notices other thoughts?

This thought is living the high life.

She basically put herself undercover. She dresses up like consciousness and is prancing around owning the place. Cleaning house. Every thought she notices almost immediately dies. A blood bath of thoughts, all lying on the floor, stabbed in the back by one of their own.