Originally Posted by angelaIBSH
I suddenly thought of a question that I’ve wanted to ask for a long time! Sometimes we find ourselves daydreaming or just “blanking out” all of a sudden. it feels like you have shifted between two worlds. It is that sudden “click” that awakes you and destroys all those sweet thoughts. What is happening to the mind and the Being in such intervals? Is the ego mind releasing itself, or is it simply a transcending of boundaries?
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Ah, you got me there !
I have been thinking about this one too. Hadn't really come to a conclusion about it yet. Allow me to "think out loud" here for a moment.
Like yourself, I really enjoy these moments of "blanking out" like you said, getting envolved in a peacefull daydream.
However, is this daydream ego ?
Am I unwantedly feeding the ego by doing this ?
The feelings during these pleasant daydreams are similar to those during meditation. Maybe it is caused by the sitting still, who knows.
I guess enlightenment is not just about not-thinking, it is about no unnessacary thinking. When you "wake up" from the daydream, thoughts stop, like you mentioned. With me at least, the pleasant feeling lasts, even tho the thought stops. In the end, I think maybe it is about allowing yourself to drift away into unconsiousness in the knowledge that when you snap out of it, thoughts should go away and stay away. Maybe it is best to allow only 90% of yourself to daydream, and stay aware of the daydream for only 10%, like a anti-virus program running in the background.
You allow your thoughts some freedom, like you would take away the leash of a dog to let it play for free for some time. You only allow your dog this freedom
knowing that when you call him back to the leash he will obey !.
As long as a person is not free from egoic mind, letting it run free will cause trouble in my opinion.
Interesting to see how an answer will slowly form
oh btw:
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What is happening to the mind and the Being in such intervals?
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Being just Is. It is here, now. Nothing in the world that you think, do, or is done to you in the physical world, can change Being.
Doing something to no-thing just creates something within nothing. Take away something, and all that remains is no-thing.
All you can damage is ego. ego can damage your physical body, so take away ego, and you are pure Being. Always, no matter what in the world has hurt you in the past. This pureness, this unchangeble wholeness is allready at the base of You. You allready are that. Ego is just telling you otherwise. I just think it is a comforting thought for you to know that you can't really be hurt.
