What are thoughts?

Here we separate a mind from a brain. The brain is a physical organ of the human body. The brain is the organ that generates thoughts. We will use "thoughts" and "mind" interchangeably. To understand the mind or the thought, we need to go beyond them. We need to find a vantage point where we can see how them functioning. From this point, we see thoughts. They carry values, judgments, likes and dislikes, worries, past memories, and future planning. They make us happy and sad, too. They define us who we are. They give us our names and identities. They carry immense information and a vast store of knowledge. They are not simple. One thought contradicts the other. They make company with and speak to one another. They construct highly philosophical systems and sophisticated theories. With the help of imagination, they created great works of art and literature. They memorize the past and plan the future. They are innocent, naïve, and clever. They are thinkers and thoughts as well. True that they have countless forms and varieties. However, in the long run, they are the thoughts. A thinker is not other than a thought. A philosopher and his philosophy are nothing other than thoughts. A thought can become a subject, a verb, and an object as well. A lover and his beloved, and the love between them, are all thoughts. The world is ruled by thoughts. They are the alpha and the omega for us. We are dictated by them, tortured by them, and enslaved by them. But from the vantage point, we can also clearly see that we are not our thoughts. We have identified ourselves with them very badly. It is we who give them life and energy; they are inert and impotent. If we do not pay them any attention, they cannot move us an inch. Look around: our entire education system is built on thought. How willingly and happily we send our children to be enslaved by them. How much energy and resources we use on the development of thoughts without realizing that we commit a universal suicide. If you cannot see your thoughts, you are sure to be destroyed by them. You are going to lose control over them from the very beginning. They are good at deception as they can take any form, shape, size, or meaning. They will not allow you to recognize your true self. They will offer their services to you freely. They will ask you why bother when they are there. They will help you to figure out the world around you, but they are never going to tell you about themselves, about their own true identity. One thought will hide behind the other one. You cannot win the game with their help. They are all against you in this game. Their deception depends on this that you do not realize your true self. The day you do this, their death is certain, and they do not want to die. They want to stay, play, run havoc around you. Let's do an experiment. Just see what they inform you while you read these words. What do they tell you? Do they tell you that this reading does not make any sense at all, or wow, what a fantastic piece of writing it is? See! Each time, they will not let you be at ease, so that you just pay attention without any reaction. You are always reacting to one thing or the other. You never stop and pause for a while, even. If you do, you are again in a thinking mode. You speculate, imagine through thoughts. By the way, who are you? Can you say you are other than your thoughts? Are you sure, if yes? Who is there saying I am this or that? Please, just see. But I am sure you cannot do this. A thought cannot see itself. A thought can think another thought, it can relate to or fight with the other thought, but it cannot see itself. It has no eyes. Can we realize how naïve and innocent we are? We have outsourced our agency to blind thoughts. We have allowed them to rule over us. They can do whatever they can to us. They can make us miserable, wretched, bored, and lonely. Great! What a fantastic job we have done! But a fact remains a fact. We are not our thoughts. We can use or be abused by thoughts, but they cannot represent our true being. They are there, no doubt. They are nothing other than simple thoughts. They have no quality of their own. They are simple thoughts. It is we who give them qualities, shape, size, and meanings. Good and bad, low and high, God and Satan, us and them, black and white, and so on are just simple thoughts. They get energy and force from us. They are inert in themselves. The problem is that we do not realize it. We live in sleep. We never see our original face. Blinds lead the blinds! If we are interested in knowing the true nature of our thoughts, as mentioned earlier, we need to find a place where their activity can be observed. The good news is that such a place exists. But to get there, we need a little understanding, a little guidance from those who have already discovered it. You cannot rush to light immediately if you have been sleeping for years. Our eyes have become habituated to darkness. A sudden rush of light may destroy them.

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