I see what you're saying, but again I think the answer lies in release. The more you 'wrestle' with your thoughts or try to suppress them, the more they will become potent. I think what you mean is along the lines of 'emotional control' whereby one is able to observe thoughts and be aware of one's emotional reaction to it. It is not thoughts that need to be balanced in such a way, it is emotions.
To attempt to compress an overactive mind is, to me, counterproductive because I view it that all activity comes from internal states so if one has an active mind it is because of the adjacent internal states which support that. Thus, trying to 'stop' thoughts is, in my opinion, useless but rather the more you release, let go and become unattached to your thoughts the less you react to them and the less you react the more you are able to observe purely.
I think what you are getting at is an old idea that the mind should be master of the thoughts and not the other way around. To see that your thoughts are not something you 'have' or which 'have you' or are even 'just there' but rather they are a type of anatomy and have structure just like your body does. See then that activity of the Mind is simply your own activity. The thoughts are not something 'other', but are part of your own 'substance'. Just like your body had many constant unconscious processes so does the mind. Thus, just like how you can become more conscious of the unconscious activity of the body you can become more conscious of the unconscious activity of the Mind through observation, or as Ra calls it, 'focusing the attention'. I believe this is the fulcrum of 'will development'.
Thus, if there are many scattered thoughts it must be seen that that is because there is some part of the self has its attention focused upon those things. So, instead, I suggest that to attempt to escape that to silence is one step forward but two steps back because you are not in any way penetrating the structure of your thought-processes.
Although, perhaps that is what you mean by control over one's thought, is to do that effort to become aware of your reactions and thought-structure. Again, I just see it as a facet of awareness rather than any need for control. The control is only needed because there is fear. Once you get to the root of fear the need for control dissolves away.
To attempt to compress an overactive mind is, to me, counterproductive because I view it that all activity comes from internal states so if one has an active mind it is because of the adjacent internal states which support that. Thus, trying to 'stop' thoughts is, in my opinion, useless but rather the more you release, let go and become unattached to your thoughts the less you react to them and the less you react the more you are able to observe purely.
I think what you are getting at is an old idea that the mind should be master of the thoughts and not the other way around. To see that your thoughts are not something you 'have' or which 'have you' or are even 'just there' but rather they are a type of anatomy and have structure just like your body does. See then that activity of the Mind is simply your own activity. The thoughts are not something 'other', but are part of your own 'substance'. Just like your body had many constant unconscious processes so does the mind. Thus, just like how you can become more conscious of the unconscious activity of the body you can become more conscious of the unconscious activity of the Mind through observation, or as Ra calls it, 'focusing the attention'. I believe this is the fulcrum of 'will development'.
Thus, if there are many scattered thoughts it must be seen that that is because there is some part of the self has its attention focused upon those things. So, instead, I suggest that to attempt to escape that to silence is one step forward but two steps back because you are not in any way penetrating the structure of your thought-processes.
Although, perhaps that is what you mean by control over one's thought, is to do that effort to become aware of your reactions and thought-structure. Again, I just see it as a facet of awareness rather than any need for control. The control is only needed because there is fear. Once you get to the root of fear the need for control dissolves away.