What is a dark cloud? The dark cloud is "ignorance", because of ignorance, it cannot be seen or known, it is a similar truth, a distorted truth.
Everyone's innate nature is "bright as the sun", and the acquired inferiority is "ignorant like dark clouds", and the deeper the illusion, the more the dark clouds are obscured.
For example, we often hear things like: "Everything is the best arrangement", "I can get along well with everyone", is that really the case?
Sometimes we think that we see the origin of the matter, but we don't know that many times we have fallen into the blind spot of "false fabrication" and "blind optimism". This kind of mind cultivation is often good and bad, and inexplicable bad emotions recur, and the mood is always up and down.
Many people seek solutions in various ways, or read a lot of books and classics, or spend countless amounts of money pursuing expensive courses, or follow a certain "master", learn countless methods, and do everything they need to do, but they are still confused in their hearts, and they cannot really live a good life.
Struggling again and again, changing the prescription again and again, slowly developed "drug resistance". For a while, I learned to think positively, live in the moment, pray for help, use affirmative words, negate negative thoughts, etc., and for a while I felt that my soul was liberated and felt the sunshine of my innate nature, but after a little time, or when I encountered a difficult situation, I immediately became cloudy and full of gloom.
That's why we say, "The clouds of life have not been cleared, and no matter how spiritually they are." Failing to face and resolve the subconscious psychic virus, they are always trapped in the temporary effect of "placebo", which does not fundamentally solve the problem.
Therefore, the first step in our mind cultivation is to be constantly aware of our subconscious negative thoughts. When we reconcile and release all the negative thoughts in our subconscious, we can remove the dark clouds and reveal our bright nature.
What are "negative thoughts"? There can be a distinction between coarse and small, and we can simply distinguish between good and evil. Some thoughts can also be measured by the rulers of "greed, anger, stupidity, slowness, and doubt", when we get an unexpected income, the thoughts that arise at this time are grateful or want to be a little more; When you talk about people who have hurt you in the past, do you feel angry and complain or let go. Many people think that they have done a good job in this step, but it is very easy to fall into their own thinking inertia, and even be angry and unaware of it, at this time, you can try to put down your own perspective and objectively stand in the perspective of a third party.
Mind cultivation is like an exam, and if you don't study your course well, you won't be able to experience the inner truth. A good criterion for judging is to feel the inner nature of oneself, which is constant and warm, the relationship with the people around you is harmonious and peaceful, everyone is lovely in your eyes, and when dealing with problems in work and life, it is harmonious and wise.
We have often heard a lot of truths that it is difficult to move from "knowing" to "doing", and sometimes even on the way, and it is possible to get lost or even turn back.
We are all dreamers, and "awakening" is a long process, and if we are not careful, we may fall asleep again. On this path, we must be aware of the "dark clouds" and the "reconciliation of the dark clouds", and finally see the nature of the light.