Little things

“Hang on to what you got
you ain’t got much
but it’s all you got
hang on to what you got
little things mean a lot”

But little things come thick and fast. They occupy the attention centre for a few thought moments then they are gone. A thought moment is the amount of time a particular thought, feeling or mood (TFM) is the focus of attention. The time varies from a fraction of a second to several minutes.

Longer thought trains are made up of a sequence of shorter carriages. Most TFM are very short and pass so quickly through the attention centre that it is hard to notice the effect that they are having.

‘I’ am rarely in charge of what appears in consciousness. But, if I am not in control, who or what is? Presumably the unconscious - which is the software that runs through modules and networks in the wetware of my brain. To misquote Thomas Gray - “Full many a thought (TFM) is born to bloom and die unseen”.

For a laugh I could try making a list of TFMs that have risen since I woke this morning. But it is a daunting task. There were a few recurring items (between 10 and 20?) and a vast range of quick flashes (well over 500?) which were not all noticeably linked to the larger themes.

“We are what we think.
all that we are arises with our thoughts.
with our thoughts we make the world.”
(Dhammapada)

Speaking or acting with a pure or impure mind has its different consequences.

Little things mean a lot.

You choose