Virtue with body, speech, and mind

I was thinking about this weekends teachings. For me the most real thing about it is the practicing of virtue with body, speech, and mind. (a kind of multifaceted mindfulness)

I can’t help but think that it is similar to anything that I might want to be good at i.e. if I want to be physically strong, I need to exercise. If I want to play guitar, then I need to practice playing the guitar.

I think that it is oversimplified to think that it is ALL in our mind. Not that it isn’t. It really IS all in our mind. It is just that my mind tells me to treat my body kindly, and to do virtuous deeds.
I can help little old ladies across the street. : )

My speech is also controlled by my mind, yet I often say things that I shouldn’t have said. So; I need to keep a diligent watch on my speech.

My mind is the hardest to tame. It is so easy for me to think thoughts of any sort, (because no one knows what I’m thinking anyway) so my mind constantly goes in all sorts of directions.

This kind of thinking probably causes me the most trouble. No wonder I don’t get my body and speech right!

Sure, I may not hurt anyone with unkind thoughts. Hmmmm. If only it were true. Not only do my conscious and unconscious thoughts affect my speech and actions, but they also are in the one stream of consciousness that affects everyone. I mentioned yesterday in the teaching how I didn’t think it is possible for any thought to be exclusively our own.

I think consciousness is the very fabric from which all of existence is woven. I think that: I think, because my parents thought, others thought, all sentient beings have thought, and that it goes on infinitely.

Maybe this conscious fabric of existence that I am uh, fabricating, is the karmic stream that it is said that we weave to or create?