Are We In Control of our Thoughts?

[Kaplok Kaplok]

The Clueless Observer

As he looked up on a tree, he saw a bunch of twigs gathered together. These twigs' behavior seemed to him as if it is their means of survival. The twigs bunch up together to produce an organism that can fly. Few days after, it confirmed his idea. He saw another bunch of twigs on another tree which has created its own flying organism, thereby allowing it to reproduce.


The Dilemma of Control

If you have not figured out yet, this observer is referring to a nest and the birds. He thinks that it was the will of the twigs that allows it to bunch up, and reproduce. Scientifically speaking, yes this is absurdly stupid. However it does not lack any merit to put into consideration. We are just so accustomed to the idea that we as complex thinking beings are in control of our own agency. But is this really the case?


To put it into perspective, during the rise of Covid-19, the virus (simple being) in the human body (complex being) has made our bodies react in a way to allow it to propagate into another breeding ground. Another human body. In essence, it is not our agency that made us "attack" another human through sneezing or coughing.

Our human-centric view of the world tempts us to think that it is the more complex being that is in control. Absurd as it is, simple beings can be viewed as in control of the complex one. Can we say that our will is the master in covid virus propagation? Can we surely say that the reproduction of the nest was the not the twigs' will?

I know it is a stretch.. but here is the point.

Our thoughts are like this nest, which is a bunch of ideas entangled together like the twigs. In our human centric worldview leads us to think thay we are in always in control of these ideas like the bird.

But it is not out of consideration that, more like the covid virus, it may be the ideas that just uses us as vehicles for its own propagation. Ideas may be lifeless viewed on their own, but viewing the process as a whole, are we truly the master of our thoughts? Or is it the ideas? Do we posses ideas, or do ideas posses us? Good people can be possesed by bad ideas as far as i can tell.

It is important to have this consideration within our awareness, because if we identify that we may be merely just a slave to certain masters (ideas), it will be easier for us to negotiate with it. At least through negotiation we can have control. And in every step of the way we can have a more rightful answer and humbly ask the question:

"Are We in Control of our Thoughts?"

Thank you for reading

 

[foxicle]

There is a topic in esotericism, the author and book of which I have forgotten, that states roughly that our minds are only receivers; originality cannot come from within because the mind is ancient and is only a precise tool for calculation.

Original ideas come from higher dimensions.

As Einstein puts it, 'No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.'

This may be the reason why ideas about God, art, and solutions to complex problems are often regarded as "inspired".

Most of these eureka moments come not from a conscious state, where the mind is on guard, but from 'other' states of consciousness, such as dreaming or dream-like states, where the mind wanders into the vast ether where all consciousness is one.

 

[Kaplok Kaplok]

It is not as mystical as it sounds, pero wala talaga way explain. You can just observe it. Psychologists like Freud and Jung also described a "collective unconcious".

Yan nga idea ng shared conciousness isa sa mga rason i was intrigued with religion. Despite not being a believer. Maybe it was this "shared conciousness" ang tinutukoy nila when the prophets talk about God.

Moving backwards in time, ung panahon ng Greek mythology, they imagine themselves being possesed by the gods, say example, when a soldier goes to war, he imagines himself possesed by a fragment of Ares the god of war, or a wise judge possesed by Themis.. etc.

In a way, different religions seems to just be different "scopes" of viewing it. Different approaches to allow us to open ourself to it.

Pero anyway, believing or understanding it does not have any bearing. The point is, we use our mind to our advantage, as we are not limited by our own.

 

[foxicle]

In this kind of situation, if the desire persists, allow yourself to experience the truth by living it.

Consider visiting communes in India, Tibet, or Japan.

They have a rich tradition of mysticism that can be truly experienced with your own eyes, without the need for imagination or flawed logical thinking.

There is no need for thinking, just experience it.

 

[Kaplok Kaplok]

In this kind of situation, if the desire persists, allow yourself to experience the truth by living it.

Consider visiting communes in India, Tibet, or Japan.

They have a rich tradition of mysticism that can be truly experienced with your own eyes, without the need for imagination or flawed logical thinking."

There is no need for thinking, just experience it.

Although nasa bucketlist ko yan ganyan, i dont think i have that desire.

Eto nmn e compose ko lang, kasi mejo sarado ang diwa ng culture natin. Alternative forms of philosophies ba..

 

[foxicle]

Okies.hehe

Maganda sa simula dahil napaguusapan, pero walang totoong ambag or transformation sa consciousness kung puro discussion at mental calisthenics lang. Kailangan isabuhay. Kumbaga, experience before preaching.

Sadly, almost majority of religions rely on borrowed knowledge.

Christ consciousness must be lived, Islamic consciousness can be observed in the way of life, Buddhism alive in the flesh etc.

 

[Kaplok Kaplok]

Okies.hehe

Maganda sa simula dahil napaguusapan, pero walang totoong ambag or transformation sa consciousness kung puro discussion at mental calisthenics lang. Kailangan isabuhay. Kumbaga, experience before preaching.

Sadly, almost majority of religions rely on borrowed knowledge.

Christ consciousness must be lived, Islamic consciousness can be observed in the way of life, Buddhism alive in the flesh etc.

Totoo nmn yan. Tingin ko lng mganda ma expose sa variety ng way of thinking just to break through the layer of dogma of the first belief. Most people are caught up with the mundane differences ng religions.

Mas madaling isabuhay ang ideas once properly negotiated with. Kasi you allow it to control you after, at your own volition.

 

[PHC-VICTOR]

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