Originally Posted by islovin
Edwin,
Don't say that... all is not lost....it will all come back...brilliance happens over and over again...
I was responding to the following concept
EGO = MIND = collection of thougths and memories
I think you said that there is no "egolobe" in the brain or something like that.
But the ego or the "active mind" can be measured through brainwaves so because there are brainwaves then ..... our ego or our mind or our collection of thoughts and memories do exist.
I agree our collection of thoughts and memories are stories that our mind creates and our mind creates these stories based on our own individual experiences....
I also believe in having attachments ...I choose to be attached to a thought, a belief, a thing, an event, a person or whatever ...if I am conscious and understand all of the consequences of that attachment...then I will hopefully only choose attachments that will serve me and the greater good.
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First of all, Coenrad, you rock !
Islovin, I think we both agree to the same thing but look at it differently.
Like you said, choosing to what thought to respond, is what it is about.
Thoughts will come up anyway. When you don't personify your Self with that thought, you will recognise it as a thought appearing in the Self. That doesn't mean that you can't react to that thought. Of course you can. But usually, a bit like Youtube, mind sends a series of thoughts and images that are related to that thought when you respond to it, kind of like: "If you are interested in this, you might also be interested in this and this".
If some of the things that come up aren't usefull, you don't have to react. Careful ! Don't reject it. Mind will immediately try to justify itself when you reject it. It will want to defend it's position, the relevance it thinks there is. It can do that because rejecting it is also giving it attention. Like a whining child that is after attention, being it positive or negative. Ignore the whining, and at a certain time will it understand that whining is a waste of energy, because mum or dad won't respond anyway.
When not paying attention to a (non useful ) thought, that process is broken, and your mind will be able to focus it's attention completely on the thought that does need attention.
How often does it happen that you have an intention to do something, and that you find yourself having drifted off with your thoughts until you were thinking about something totally different ?
This is a dead give away that you
think that you are in control, while in fact you are not. Or, like Eckhart Tolle sais: Most people think they control their thoughts. When they say that, I usually say to them, "Is that so, if you control your thoughts, stop thinking for the coming 5 minutes".
