20 Feb Lifespan of a thought
Witness the birth, life and death of a thought or emotion in 3 seconds.
When you focus on your own mind you’ll realise a stream of thoughts and sensations continually come and go. It’s the same for everyone. These thoughts or sensations simply appear in consciousness and leave. Only to be replaced with the next thought or sensation.
Where do they come from?
Peace can be had in watching them come and go. Seeing the exact moment they begin, watching them change, only to end as fast as they arrived.
Where do they go?
Focus on them enough and you can learn to control the concept of grasping. Grasping is the act of having an emotion or thought arise then adding fuel to it. This is often in the form of an inner monologue. This helps to fuel the emotion or thought until it consumes you and it’s all you can be – such as angry.
It is my understanding that you don’t examine the subject matter of the thought but the thought itself. The act of examining a thought, makes the thought unclear, and it disappears.
Meditation or Mindfulness?
These are the buzzword of our times. But finding information that’s not wrapped in ideological doctrines is hard. We have to sift through the flim-flam and try to focus on the scientific approach.
Meditation need not be about the pursuit of a deity or nirvana. It’s not about aligning imaginary shakras either. Put simply, you can use it to learn more about yourself. Plus it becomes incredibly useful when you are stuck in traffic!
The unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates believed that philosophy was the most important pursuit above all else. He represents the pursuit of wisdom through questioning, logic and examining.
Is there a better way to learn more about your mind than by examining it?
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