[MD] How to Be Rid of SOM, Forever

[John Carl]

Hi Marsha and thanks,
First, my Oregon Creek is in California.  It's a just about the perfect size
to be considered a "creek" and flows into the middle fork of the Yuba River
where Hwy 49 crosses.   It's also less than a 5 minute drive from my house,
which absolutely makes it the best swimming hole in the world.  All my kids
learned to swim there.


>
> One July I spent two sunny weeks (business trip) in Oregon, and it was very
> beautiful.  I spent one of the weekend days driving down the coast and
> back.
> Gorgeous coastline!
>
> I have just one question. Do you need to turn over all those arising
> thoughts to awareness?  Of course thoughts like "Bear!!!" will be
> insistent,
> but most are not worthy of center stage.  Imho.


"Worthy" is a value judgement, eh?  And in order to apply judgement to a
thought, you have to have the thought in the first place.  So... let's
suppose I've got this thought to be evaluated and I decide upon reflection
that it's not worthy.  So I cast it off.  The entire process flits by in a
moment but while all this is going on in the moment, it's a "center stage"
phenomena.  I don't see any way around it, normally.  The one solution I can
imagine is figuring out what is worthy and keeping it center stage.  I guess
that's like focusing on a mantra or somesuch, but I'm not at all sure that
whatever  thoughts arise out of my immediate environmental relationship are
less worthy than a preconceptualized  Ommmmmmm.....