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Originally posted by timidgal
reply to post by WarJohn
Since your thread implies that you were once brainwashed like the rest of us, exactly how did you break free from this bondage and how can you be so sure that your pure-thinker state of mind isn't brainwashing as well?
Originally posted by WarJohn
Originally posted by timidgal
reply to post by WarJohn
Since your thread implies that you were once brainwashed like the rest of us, exactly how did you break free from this bondage and how can you be so sure that your pure-thinker state of mind isn't brainwashing as well?
A mental purification at what all thought is contributed by the world I no longer follow.
Flush out man's fill that is pitched as how to think or how to behave.
Even flush out man-made books pretending to be laying down the Supreme Being's work.
I've brainwashed no one because each time I speak I say things that are original in each time. No repetition from me.
Originally posted by Baron01
reply to post by WarJohn
The idea of a 100% pure selfmade mind is a construct of the physical mind. Believing this will automatically create the belief your mind was once
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by timidgal
Each thought that arises is not you. The 'mind' is no more than this present thought that is appearing right now presently. There is no need to make your mind pure because there is no mind as such, it is just a case of seeing the present thought arising. The seer and knower of the thought is what you are.
Thoughts are no more than appearances appearing but you are not thinking, thought happens and thought is seen.
When you recognize yourself as the aware space (presence) in which thoughts appear you will see that the mind does not have to be made pure. It matters not what thought arises when you know you are not doing it, in fact the mind becomes a source of amusement.
This little video might clarify what i have written:
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edit on 23-4-2012 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by artistpoet
You are talking about analysing thought. Who is it that is analysing? Isn't that just more thought?
It does not matter what thought arises, just see the thought appear. The problem occurs when you take the arising thought as problematic. Thought is not problematic, it is the taking it seriously that is problematic. Thoughts are like clouds appearing in the sky, does the sky mind what clouds appear? The sky is pure regardless of the cloud.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by artistpoet
There is a belief that thoughts are like beads strung together. However, the only thought there is is the present one. You are free from all 'past' thought, now is new and fresh.
There is nothing until you 'think' it. It is not you that 'thinks' it but it is you who believes it. Thoughts say a lot but they can do nothing without your consent.edit on 23-4-2012 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by artistpoet
You believe your thoughts are a link to reality. When in fact they remove you from reality. Reality is not a thought, it is right here and right now. Thought is an abstraction, it takes reality and translates it into language the mind talks. Do you want the mind to tell you what is real, or do you want to see reality as God made it?
The mind/thoughts tell you of 'things' that are not real but the mind is deluded ,it believes 'things' that are not true. It tells you about what will happen tomorrow and fear arises.
Reality is here and now only.
If a thought is arising presently then that is reality.edit on 23-4-2012 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by artistpoet
Thought patterns are not thought. Thought 'patterns' are what you 'think' thought is.
Thought appears is seen and then disappears.
The human mind believes in past and future but have you ever seen the past or future?
Only now is ever experienced.
Past is a thought, future is a thought.
There is nothing but thought. Thinking is thinging.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
Originally posted by Baron01
reply to post by WarJohn
The idea of a 100% pure selfmade mind is a construct of the physical mind. Believing this will automatically create the belief your mind was once