When the winds blow, the weeds are sown. And, then, to avoid a field of weeds, you must cultivate them out.
It is no different from that with the mind. It should be with great joy that we see how the mind works. The wind represents the way information is scattered. We hear something, sometime a rumor, sometimes a truth. The accusation becomes something we are in danger of believing, or at least wondering about. Sometimes, the person who would not be thought ill of causes his own damage by introducing the possibility of his fault. He plants the weed, him or herself.
"You probably think I took your phone, but I didn't." And, as soon as the person says that, the possibility that he or she took the phone is introduced in the other person's mind. This is the power of suggestivity. All it takes is that the possibility is planted in the other person's mind and the thought will grow into a weed if it is not cultivated out.
Ah, yes, the power of suggestivity.
If we do not like the other person, we are especially susceptible to believing rumors about them. Having itching ears, we jump on the rumor and are quick to believe it. Those with weak minds are also quicker to believe rumors, for it takes mental effort to think things through and the easier path is to simply accept the rumor as truth. Just as it takes effort to go through a field and hoe out all the weeds, so it takes mental effort to cull out the rumors.
Drugs can also be influencers. They tend to make the mind lazier and more susceptible. Thus, those are drugs can be more paranoid and be more easily persuaded to believing a lie.
Others who are more susceptible to rumors, lies and innuendo? Those who are not loving, those inclined to hating others. And, those who are hurt, who become defensive, they are prone to lash back.
