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The Need and Method for Observing One’s Thoughts · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Avoidance of suffering, may be considered as a negative status.
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  Achievement of happiness, is the positive pole of this continuum
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  Both states are rooted in the mind and the standpoint that the
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  individual takes. When the scriptures speak of
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  evil thoughts or purified thoughts, this is not directly
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  intended to be a moral judgment. Rather, it is a statement of the
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  energetic source and impact of the thoughts that are
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  entertained and held in the mind, those that are based in
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  the ego personality and the desire soul, that bring
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  disturbance and hand suffering and cause pain are evil
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  thoughts. Those that are Serene, widening,
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  and uplifting and that are based in the Universal Consciousness
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  are considered to be purified. Thoughts, the one state brings
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  suffering, the other brings happiness.
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  Neither of these states is dependent on the outer
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  circumstances, but on the inward response to those circumstances.
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  The key there for to achieving happiness isn't obtaining
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  Mastery, over one's Thoughts. With the first step.
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  Being the observation of those thoughts.
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  In the book, commentaries on the dhammapada.
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  The mother provides insight into a number of verses from this
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  classical Buddhist texts. The dhammapada states, quote
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  mind predominates. Everything proceeds from mind,
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  in all things, the primordial. Is mind if a man speaks or acts
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  with a purified, mind happiness accompanies him as closely as
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  his Inseparable Shadow and quote, the mother notes quote,
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  this is the counterpart of what we read last time, the
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  dhammapada contrasts a purified mind with an evil mind.
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  We have already said that, there are four successive stages for
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  the purification of the Mind a purified.
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  Mind is naturally a mind that does not admit any wrong
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  thought. And we have seen that the
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  complete Mastery of thought, which is required to gain.
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  This result is the last achievement in the four stages,
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  I have spoken of the first is to observe one's mind.
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  Do not believe that it is such an easy thing for to observe
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  your thoughts. You must first of all, separate
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  yourself from them in the ordinary State.
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  The ordinary man does not distinguish himself from his
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  thoughts. He does not even know that he
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  thinks he thinks by habit. And if he is asked all of a
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  sudden, what are you thinking of?
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  He knows nothing about it. That is to say, 95 times out of
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  100, he will answer. I do not know.
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  There is a complete identification between the
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  movement of thought, and the consciousness of the being to
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  observe the thought. The first movement, then is to
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  step back and look at it to separate yourself from your
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  thoughts. So that the movement of the
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  Consciousness and that of thought may not be confused.
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  Thus, when we say that one, must observe one's thoughts.
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  Do not believe that it is simple.
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  It is the first step, I suggest that this evening in our
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  meditation, we take up this first exercise, which consists
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  in standing back, from one's thought.
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  And looking at it and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the
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  mother living within the yoga approached, a psychological
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  health and growth disturbances of mine.
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  Unruly and perturbing thoughts Pages 35 to 40 three.