Apr 18 (edited) • General discussion
Distrust your thoughts
There comes a time in many seekers' life when one begins to see how thoughts, often self-harming, control one's experience. When faith in thought is questioned, one usually wonders what can be trusted if one cannot trust his or her "own" thoughts? This can first feel daunting as we have been conditioned to believe that our thoughts are truly our own and that they make up the most intimate aspect of who we are. To go beyond, one must first realise that this is untrue. Our thoughts are bound to language and language we acquired in childhood. Our minds work much like AI in that the mind's repertoire of thoughts equals the total of all input of words to date, and this is continuously updated through interpersonal communication and the consumption of langauge-based material. Notwithstanding, there is an important distinction: while AI does not form a self-serving ego, our minds do, and this ego proclaims individuality and individual intelligence. And there you go, you have got a self-centered, self-serving program running in your consciousness whose only aim is its own survival even if that requires making you, its host, miserable. While in theory awakening does not necessitate a guru, in practice a guru is very useful when the seeker needs to place his of her trust in something other than thoughts.
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