Is Thinking a Problem?

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Xan [xanma]

 

~ As my friend said,

"The problem is not what you are thinking,

but that you are thinking."

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Whether you are thinking or not cannot be the problem. Thinking is

automatic. Its stoppage is automatic in deep dreamless sleep and in

Nirvikalpa Samadhi. In deep meditation, thoughts can be seen clicking

precisely like a clock as they come to the surface.

 

So thinking is not a problem at all. Thinking has its own nature but you

want to tinker with it. That is a problem! You are giving the natural

mechanism undue importance - that is a problem!

 

Ultimately, the only real problem is that you think there is a problem! :-).

 

Love to all

Harsha

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, "Harsha \(Dr. Harsh K. Luthar\)"

<hluthar@b...> wrote:

>

> Xan [xanma@e...]

>

> ~ As my friend said,

> "The problem is not what you are thinking,

> but that you are thinking."

> _______________

> Whether you are thinking or not cannot be the problem. Thinking is

> automatic. Its stoppage is automatic in deep dreamless sleep and in

> Nirvikalpa Samadhi. In deep meditation, thoughts can be seen

clicking precisely like a clock as they come to the surface.

>

> So thinking is not a problem at all. Thinking has its own nature but

> you want to tinker with it. That is a problem! You are giving the

> natural mechanism undue importance - that is a problem!

>

> Ultimately, the only real problem is that you think there is a

problem! :-).

>

> Love to all

> Harsha

 

Thoughts are necessary for carrying on a conversation, running a

business, etc. ... They are unnecessary when pyschologically

judgemental and when they are superfluous to the task in the moment.

It ain't necessary to gild the lily. It speaks for itself and does

not need your thoughts about it to be a lily. Your thoughts about the

lily merely use up lots of your energy and serve only to hide the

lilyness of the lily from your awareness.

 

Love, Victor