BAY TREE SPIRIT:
“If you wonder whether the thoughts you are having are at all the influence of the tree in front of you, or simply your own thoughts, then consider this: Why do you consider that your thoughts at any other time belong to you?
Why not accept the possibility that your mind is like a radio or a mirror – just reflecting those signals, taking up the images that are within your vicinity.
Then the flavour of the thoughts can be recognised as significant. There is awareness of difference, and in this way thought becomes a sense like seeing, hearing or feeling.
A thought is like a sound ; neither right nor wrong, accurate or inaccurate. Only your degree of awareness or lack of awareness gives the experience meaning or significance. “
Reminds us of teachings from our elders here – “Pray for the feelings which come to one – it may be that they are not one’s own. Many may wish to claim one’s mind. There are one’s who may be in confusion. There are many who may visit one. If a thought or feeling is not to be kept – is not ones medicine – put light and love upon it – inviting it to return to it’s origins – that this prayer may be a healing”