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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  Tolle is totally off base in that respect. You can stop the thinking mind and experience a deeper sense of peace if you'd like, but trying to make that state into the central focus of your life ultimately misses the point of human existence.
You don't need to mentally check out from life to be at peace. I think SR is a more reasonable and intelligent approach that trying to turn off all thought. The thinking mind isn't some kind of cosmic mistake. It doesn't exist just so you can turn it off. |
Thats because you are completely identified with your mind. Thinking mind can't see anything wrong with itself. The "wrong" is always outside of it.
The thinking mind, the voice you hear in your head, is a tool. In the same way you don't use the hammer all day long to bang around on things you shouldn't use your thinking mind non-stop. You can build things using hammer or you can smash them to pieces. But if you hammer on things all day long 24x7 you'll be destroying a lot...
Stop and ask yourself who is listening to the voice in your head. Who stops it? Who directs it and guides it?
I've seen on myself and others thinking mind run in self destructive ways when left uncontrolled. How many of us are stuck thinking and re-playing the same film in our minds about bad things happened in past, perceived or real injustices, what somebody thinks of us, how they have more than we do etc.?
Is it better to let thinking mind run uncontrolled or stop it, harness it and use it for purpose?
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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina There's no need to fear the thinking mind. It isn't your enemy. Turning it off doesn't lead to enlightenment... merely thoughtlessness. That concept of enlightenment is a total dead end. |
Where does all creative work comes from Steve? Surely you had experiences where things
just pop into your head? Where did that come from? Surely not your thinking mind... All creative endeavors come from non-thinking mind.