The mind is like a room. The walls of the mind are the walls of experience, the walls of past, it’s a very limited space, it’s not an open sky. The mind knows only this much. The entire existence is there, open, but the mind knows only this much. And within this wall is the entire movement of mind. This movement of mind is called thought, thinking.
One cannot think beyond his experience.
Can you think of the fourth dimension in space? Can you think of a language that you have not learned?
Even imagination is based on experience. You cannot even imagine beyond your experience. It will be in some way related to your experience. So, the mind is a limited enclosure. The walls are the walls of conditioning and experience and bias and past. And it keeps moving within these walls. This movement as I said is the movement of thought.
The minds fundamental nature is freedom, it does not like being enclosed here. At the same time, it cannot just go out on its own, right? Because it has by itself created these walls. So, in its restlessness it just keeps moving. The entire movement of the mind is an attempt to get out of this room. Because this room is a bondage.
One can move within this room in two ways.
One is to move so that you can reach the door. That’s a conscious movement, and aware movement. You can start from a point and move towards the door. With your eyes open, in intelligence. And this movement of mind is thought. And this movement of mind, this thought, will liberate you. It will liberate you. Thought will bring you to the exit and then you can fly. Because the movement of the mind within the room is called thought, the moment you are out of this door, thought will disappear. Stop. This is high thinking. That thought which terminates itself.
High thinking does not mean that you are following high ideals. No, that is not high thinking.
High thinking is the thought that simply dissolves very soon. Thought that reaches its limit and disappears.
Low thinking is a drunkard inside the room. With very weak legs, and a weaker mind. He is moving from here to there, continuously roaming, falling down, stumbling, hitting the chairs, sleeping, but he is never able to reach the door. He has weak legs, he cannot move. And even when he moves, he is moving from here to there in random directions.
So, what is he doing, he is continuously moving all the time, and this movement inside the mind is called thought. So, he is continuously thinking all the time without ever coming to a stop. He does not have the courage to think hard, think freely. And he does not have the intelligence to move towards the door. Legs are weak, eyes are weak, and about him everything is weak because he is drunk. This is low thinking
Have you seen such people who are continuously thinking? And thinking repetitively about the same things. In the morning they are thinking of the same thing, in the afternoon again, in the evening again. It’s the same circular pattern. Repeating itself. Repeating itself, but it is keeping them busy.
Low thinking is the kind of thinking that continuously goes on and on, like a chronic disease, never to end. High thinking starts as thinking and ends as understanding. It starts as thinking and ends as understanding. Low thinking starts as thinking and just keeps thinking.
Low thinking is like a closed-loop program. First line says go to next line, next line says go to first line. So it’s the closed-loop, continuous, infinite loop. This is low thinking.
To a mind that does not have knots within it, everything is simple. If you find something complex it is because the mind is layered, conditioned, confused.
Complex living means living from a conditioned mind, and hence not able to enjoy the simple beauty of life. That is complex living.
So, what will be simple living?
Living from a free mind, an unconditioned mind. So that you are able to live in the simple beauty of life, and enjoy it, obviously.
Simple living is, when I look at somebody, I do not look at the makeup, I do not look at the brand of the clothes, I do not look at the expression the fellow is wearing, and I look at that essence of the person. Direct and simple.
Submitted August 29, 2018 at 02:22AM by acharya-prashant https://ift.tt/2wkTqLu
