04-24-2010, 12:00 AM
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I mentioned previously about thinking positively.
I'm not telling you to even think positively. Any kind of thinking is doing. Any kind of thinking is confirming that you are an isolated separate entity that needs to do something, make a change, to experience this oneness.
The opposite of this is just to let go completely. To let go of all doing means to let go of all thinking. Thinking is always about the past or future; never about this moment, which is life itself. Enjoy this present moment completely.
This may sound a bit of a dry way of looking at it.
But this is just this, and that's all. It is far from dry. It only appears that way from the outside. When you begin to enter into this simple moment, without thought, then it is truly beyond what can be imagined. It is so powerful and so huge, because it is so full and at the same time so utterly empty.
The small mind doesn't like that at all.
The small mind has attributes, it has qualities, and it has business to attend to. It has feelings, and it thinks that those feelings are important and that they need to be listened to and respected. The part of us that relies upon thinking and accomplishing goals is thoroughly insulted by this kind of practice.
But it is never that we don't get to think anymore.
The point is not identifying your self as that separate thinker. All those attributes that you have are characteristics of that object which you think yourself to be, and will always be on hand if they need to be used in some way. We are not trying to "kill the ego" here.
We are dealing here with the conflict between self and what the self considers other than itself. When we begin to identify with that which we always considered as "not me", it can be a challenge, and the initial reaction in our mind/body can be a bit disturbing.
I mentioned previously about thinking positively.
I'm not telling you to even think positively. Any kind of thinking is doing. Any kind of thinking is confirming that you are an isolated separate entity that needs to do something, make a change, to experience this oneness.
The opposite of this is just to let go completely. To let go of all doing means to let go of all thinking. Thinking is always about the past or future; never about this moment, which is life itself. Enjoy this present moment completely.
This may sound a bit of a dry way of looking at it.
But this is just this, and that's all. It is far from dry. It only appears that way from the outside. When you begin to enter into this simple moment, without thought, then it is truly beyond what can be imagined. It is so powerful and so huge, because it is so full and at the same time so utterly empty.
The small mind doesn't like that at all.
The small mind has attributes, it has qualities, and it has business to attend to. It has feelings, and it thinks that those feelings are important and that they need to be listened to and respected. The part of us that relies upon thinking and accomplishing goals is thoroughly insulted by this kind of practice.
But it is never that we don't get to think anymore.
The point is not identifying your self as that separate thinker. All those attributes that you have are characteristics of that object which you think yourself to be, and will always be on hand if they need to be used in some way. We are not trying to "kill the ego" here.
We are dealing here with the conflict between self and what the self considers other than itself. When we begin to identify with that which we always considered as "not me", it can be a challenge, and the initial reaction in our mind/body can be a bit disturbing.