Decision making - Living in a Silent Mind
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I understand you and I fully agree. I have discovered that the fastest way to end any conversation is to merely suggest that life is but a dream. So I won't do that here. Although the analogy is useful: we all make the same mistake in every dream, we identify with the person. Each and every time it takes awakening to (be able to) realize we were wrong. We were not just the person but the whole dream. While dreaming we live life from the personal perspective (which can be very frightening). Once you realize you are dreaming you leave the personal perspective, you realize you are consciousness, just because consciousness is all there is. As in any dream.
I hope you don't mind I keep coming back to the number of thoughts. You told me you ignored the majority of your thoughts. It still puzzles me, I don't know how you do that. Do you split in two, one part having thoughts, the other part ignoring them?
If we leave the personal perspective, there should be a massive drop in the number of thoughts because most of our thoughts are about us and the ones close to us (ego). If the ego begins to fade away, your thoughts therefore must decrease in number.
Illustration: suppose you could dream a dream again with ONE difference only: this time you KNOW you are dreaming although you still don't know what will happen or how the dream will end. Wouldn't all the ego-thoughts (over 95%) evaporate? Wouldn't you experience everything from what you call The Silent Mind?
There’s a lot to respond to here, so to begin with I will address this: “You told me you ignored the majority of your thoughts. It still puzzles me”. I would say that rather than doing anything like ‘ignoring’ them, it’s more accurate to say that the thoughts aren’t as ‘sticky’ - I don’t seem to engage with them as I used to. As for the quantity of thoughts. I would say that there are less and less; I think this is because I’m not attaching to them and therefore not noticing them as I used to. And it seems that when the thoughts are starved of attention they don’t proliferate - in fact they seem to abate. What I will say is that I’m not making a conscious effort to ignore them or some how reduce them because as you point out that would make no sense: you can’t think your way out of a thinking box!
@@seeingnow Thank you, that helps. For me it is either or, nothing in between. I either identify with my thoughts (and become a person with a story and therefore will suffer) OR I realize I am consciousness enjoying the whole show knowing that as consciousness I am invulnerable, whatever happens. I practice switching between those daily (do you too?). As I wrote earlier, you can't control your thoughts but see what happens if you put your full attention on the stage to see if any thought appears: then not a single thought can appear. They start appearing again the very moment your attention drops.
@@GeertMeertens
So what I would say here is that the ‘awareness’ that is aware of ‘identifying with my thoughts’ and the awareness that is aware of ‘realising I am consciousness’, is the same awareness. And furthermore, this awareness is effortless and is what you are. This is the same awareness that is aware of it being ‘either or, nothing in between’. The key here is that the awareness I am pointing to is impersonal and isn’t touched be the contents appearing with in it - those content are all personal experiences, whether that is an experience of personal suffering or invulnerability.
@GeertMeertens
Regarding your illustration - if you dream and then know you're dreaming I agree that would end investment in the ego and would be akin to self-realisation.