You are not the thinker
Knowing this enables you to observe 'the thinker'. The moment you start watching 'the thinker', a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind.
You begin to awaken, freeing yourself from your mind.
~Eckhart Tolle
You are not your thoughts. You are not your emotions. You're not the fingernails on your fingers ends. You're not your hands or your feet or your mouth. You're not your hair.
They're part of you. They're not the essence. It's important that these words be internalized.
This is not a read-me-and-throw-away word group. What this piece of writing is, is a way of life, a way of mind, a way of BEING.
Internalize the ideas woven in the fabric of these words and you will find your self. Buddha-like. Laughing. At one.
Yes. That's what I'm offering here.
Enlightenment. Aura expansion. The greatest you could be.
On a piece of paper, in your computer, it's useless. Left there, it doesn't do anything, you won't have an idea what I'm talking about. It's a process you can only implement within yourself. It raises your self. It is, well, it's quite zen.
The Now
BE now.
- Empty your mind.
- There is no past.
- Likewise, there is no future.
I mean do it. Really do it. Do it now.
You're going to find that what's left when you remove the past, which doesn't really exist, and remove the future:
- There is the now, the current moment. That's all there ever was, that's all there ever is, that's all there ever will be.
Look about you. You're sitting at a computer in a room somewhere in the world. The screen is bright, the walls are around you. It might be warm or cold and the sun might be shining in through the window. Rain might be falling softly outside. It's real. It's beautiful, it's depth ridden. It's rich, like Christmas pudding. It's sweet, sweeter than candy. There might be music, maybe silence embraces you. There is only really the now. It's the gift of existence. Now. It's all we have, it is what it is.
I used to read about meditation, the emptying of the mind. I always heard it was a good thing, I couldn't see why an empty mind would really be a good thing. It seemed to be covered in mystique.
It takes time to achieve, it takes effort.
Yet the mind is never truly empty. Telling someone not to think is almost like telling someone not to think about elephants.
How can you stop yourself from thinking then? The answer here is you don't. You continue to let your mind think. You let the thoughts come, you accept them, you let them go.
Watch them.
Let them pass.
Was there a sad feeling? Was there a happy one? Well, that's good, the sad feeling, it isn't so awful really. It is what it is.
Underneath it, underneath the ideas, the ever-streaming thoughts, underneath the violent emotions, there is an infinite well of joy.
Pure.
Unadulterated.
Joy.