Guest guest Posted September 29, 2005 Report Share Posted September 29, 2005 Physics tells us that when waves/particles slow down they turn into probability-clouds. And so the closer we try to get to particles the more they vanish into probability-clouds. Similarly, the faster we try and chase light the more obvious it gets that we are standing still. The only explanation for this is that these particles/waves are just thoughts, as is space and time. A story of thoughts. As with the study of particles/waves, there is a problem observing thoughts. In the same way physics' particles cannot be observed (because they turn into probability clouds) so too the mind's thoughts cannot be observed because they are never there. This must sound insane. But it is no more insane than physics' probability-clouds. The only difference between observing particles and observing thoughts is that it takes a physicist and lots of fancy equipment to observe particles. It takes nothing, not even effort, for anyone to observe thoughts. -- two brick-walls of observation -- Anyone can use meditation to try and observe thoughts. When the mind slows down then its thoughts appear to slow down as they appear to come out of nothing and then disappear back into nothing. But when we study how these thoughts appear to come and go we hit a problem, a brick-wall: there is no comings or goings. This is because " thoughts are either there or they are not. " In other words: thoughts can never be observed to come and go. And when we study this " thoughts are either there or not " we hit another problem, another brick-wall: thoughts can never be observed to be " there. " -- seeking some sanity -- Thoughts are like a mirage or shadow or reflection – to the mind they appear to exist, even be solid, and yet, somehow, like probability-clouds, they are never there. The problems physicists have, and the brick-walls the " observer " of thoughts has, is that the observer makes huge assumptions. HUGE-ASSUMPTIONS: The first huge-assumption the observer makes is that there is an observation. Perhaps what is being observed is not even like a mirage or shadow or reflection but a hallucination. OR, maybe, the observation is not even a hallucination because the observer himself is the hallucination. That the observer can be a hallucination might appear to be utter insanity but the scenario is absolutely valid for each one of us. Not only is it valid but it is valid at least 1/3 of our so-called lives. At least one-third of our lives we are not only hallucinating but we are the hallucinations. This is the scenario in our sleep-dreams. Then the next huge-assumption: when we wake up in the morning we stop hallucinating and " life " is for " real. " What evidence do we have that when we wake up in the morning we are not just starting another dream? The only evidence we have is the mind, thoughts, like " I must be awake because fire burns. " The fact that fire burns just as surely in sleep-dreams never seems to bother this huge-assumption that: in the morning I wake up because the mind just knows… I (my mind) could not be that deceived… I'm too smart to be that stupid. And finally, I could not be deceived because I got a PhD is smartness and so I'm educated not to be stupid. This is a story about: only dummies need education, and a miracle called Suspicion to Wake-up. =-= the Suspicion To go beyond physics and its chaos of particles (waves) and the mind and its thoughts we have to assume that there is an " observer " that is separate from thoughts, the mind. Without this observer the mind is the police, judge and jury of everything: all its thoughts, reflections, mirages, shadows, dreams, visions and indeed hallucinations. To somehow find this observer all we need is one assumption. We have to assume that : there is something – let us call it a Suspicion – that suspects that thoughts are not what they appear. (A suspicion that the mind might not know the difference between its visions and its hallucinations.) So how does this Suspicion find out what thoughts are all about? It is very simple. To uncover this simplicity we need a simple analogy. This simple analogy needs an autopilot, and its Pilot. This analogy is simple because we need no plane. -- the Autopilot and its pilot -- In this analogy a dummy-plane is designed to fly by autopilot. It was specifically designed and programmed for a pilot. (Pretend this dummy plane is a simulator. Or, it is a dream of a Pilot ) This " pilot " finds himself inside the dummy-plane. And the pilot does not know about the autopilot. (The words dummy and pilot: to the outside observer the Pilot has to be a dummy if the plane is a dummy. But to the pilot : if the plane is real then he is a real Pilot. Just like physics tells us: the observer determines what he observes: Pilot or dummy.) The educated-Pilot: But this Pilot is more than just a dummy because it/he is educated. The Pilot is educated to know that there is no such thing as an autopilot. And then this educated-Pilot also has a biblical-truth. The autopilot in this dummy-plane is programmed to put the dummy- plane into a dummy-dive when this educated-pilot lets go of the (dummy) controls. This dummy-dive is all the biblical-truth that the Pilot needs to keep flying the dummy-plane. So just how educated is this Pilot? This Pilot is so educated that he is certain that there is no autopilot, that there is a plane, and that the plane is OBVIOUSLY going somewhere, and that he OBVIOUSLY has not only the control of the plane, but also its destination. The dummy-dives turns all this certainty into a biblical-truth. And the pilot is certain of this biblical-truth because there is no other that could be flying the plane… NOW remember this educated-pilot because without a Suspicion we are all educated-dummies. We have to be educated-dummies to understand/believe that the universe needs probability-clouds to be rock-solid. -- Only a Suspicion can wake-up; a dummy stays educated -- THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY the Pilot can wake-up to the fact that he has to be the same dummy as is the plane. The only way a pilot can wake up is to have a Suspicion. Only with a Suspicion can he hope to figure out that there is an autopilot and then figure out how it works … Without this suspicion the Pilot is nothing but an educated-dummy. The mind is just like an autopilot. Unless we have a Suspicion and figure out how it works, doesn't-work, we are no better off than this Pilot that, without a Suspicion, is just an educated-dummy. brick-walls cont: To study how the mind works a Suspicion has to observe thoughts when they slow down. The tool for this is meditation. In the thoughtless-silence of meditation a Suspicion can try to observe slow-thoughts. The first problem, brick-wall, a Suspicion hits is that it cannot observe thoughts. If this does not make the reader also suspicious then there is no need to read further. To observe thoughts they have to come and go. The problem is that they never come and go. Thoughts are either there or they are not. OR ARE THEY? When a Suspicion studies this " BEING THERE OR NOT " – it hits another brick-wall. Just like physics and its particles/waves: A Suspicion can never observe thoughts to be " THERE. " There is only one explanation for not being able to observe thoughts: the mind is doing the observing and the mind is the thoughts that it is observing. I. The mind cannot observe the thoughts that it is. Any other scenario leads a Suspicion on the same educated wild- goose-chase physicists need to try to catch their timeless-light. II. thoughts cannot be controlled Just like Physics' Uncertainty Principle tells us, when the mind slows down, there is no way a Suspicion can predict the next thought it is going to get, " have/be " or " observe. " And if this is the case when the mind slows down then it must be valid when the mind speeds up. The only conclusion: thoughts cannot be controlled.If this does no make the reader also into a Suspicion then there is no need to read further because it gets far more un- educated, and thus insane. III. thoughts are disconnected By observing slow-thoughts a Suspicion can observe that there are very-very obvious GAPS between thoughts. These gaps are just like physics' quantum-gaps. IN these GAPS there is nothing that can possibly connect one unpredictable thought to the next unpredictable thought. And if thoughts are totally-disconnect when the mind slows down then they also have to be disconnected with the mind speed up. The connection of thoughts is thus an illusion, just like a mirage, hallucination. If thoughts are disconnected and unpredictable then there is no such thing as thinking. This is because thinking is just a thought. If there is no thinking then the mind cannot work. The mind cannot work because there is no mind only the thoughts that think they can work, think. -- a thought called choice -- There is no choice because it, choice, is just a thought, the mind. While the mind has no choice a Suspicion does. A Suspicion has a choice but only because it, the Suspicion, is the choice that is nothing short of a miracle. This miracle goes far beyond anyone's wildest dreams. The miracle called Suspicion: Without a Suspicion we must stay educated so that we can then laugh at, or kill, any Suspicion that is stupid enough to tell us: you are just an educated-dummy if you don't know how your mind does-not-work. A Suspicion, on the other hand, is the miracle-choice that can figure-out how the mind works/doesn't-work and Wake up to be the Reality that is far-far beyond anyone's wildest dream … a Reality that not even Buddha or Jesus could have dreamt about – not even in their wildest dreams. Suspicions have to be killed, incarcerated or drugged because they are not only uneducated but indeed insane. But the miracle of Suspicions is that the vast majority are exactly like thoughts and just vanish into dreams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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