People talk. We listen. We think about what they are saying. As we consider the thoughts that other people verbalize, their thoughts stream through us and become our thoughts, at least, for the time being, while these thoughts remain under our consideration.
Basic stuff, right? Nothing to it. It’s part of our day-to-day mind-flow. But here’ s a puzzle for you. Do we become our thoughts about others’ thoughts that are passing through us? Are we carried away with all this daily mind-flow or do we remain?
To help you ponder this, here’s a set of three quotations on the matter. These quotations – once you read them – will become your thoughts, at least, for the time being, while you are reading them. Ponder if – upon having these thoughts – you, yourself, have become these thoughts.
“The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.” (1).
“If all of your experiences, your various states of consciousness, were weather patterns – clouds, rain, rainbows, tornados, hurricanes, or summer breezes – your consciousness would be the sky in which they take place. Your consciousness is the context in which all of your experiences, perceptions, thoughts, or feelings converge.” (2).
“Consciousness is the essence of the self.” (3)
What have you concluded? And, more importantly, what have you concluded it with? Meditate on this. Share your thoughts about this. Read others’ thoughts about this. Then, meditate on your thoughts about others’ thoughts about this. Then meditate again.
References:
1. Sri Ramana Maharshi
2. Maria Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten and Tina Amorok
3. S. Radhakrishnan & C. Moore
We could be siamese twins?
Pavel..how else are things created?…..one plays off the other as if it was deeper looking into this one would find out that all is synchronistic as the Consciousness again seems to play off all matter in the Universe as it has already been done with transparency in perpetuallity..but it is most noticed in a subjective reality, how else does one operate?…enjoy my Zen Soul Bro(+)
Dom*:)