January 26, 2024

Chapter 25: How monkey mind makes monkeytraps

By Steve Hauptman

 

We are what we think.

All that we are arises

with our thoughts.

With our thoughts

we make the world.

~ Buddha 

 

We can now understand how monkey mind creates monkeytraps.

It does it by seeding our consciousness with worst-case scenarios, watering those seeds with anxiety, then searching frantically for solutions to these imaginary problems.

It creates a frightening fantasy world, and then struggles to control the people, places and things that inhabit that world.

Monkey mind is all about bringing scary stuff under control.

Remember the laundry list I mentioned earlier? Those thirteen symptoms common to untreated adult children?

We can see it, now, as nothing more than one monkeytrap after another.

Let’s take a deeper look at the internal dynamics behind that list.

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