03-22-2014, 05:55 AM
There is a book of his called "Practicing the Power of Now", which is much more streamlined. Ultimately though, you don't need it as long as you can be present and dis-identify with your thoughts. Watch and observe them. Notice how your thoughts are "there" but what you can hear/feel/see is something else.
If you're watching tv, do you think YOU are the tv? No, that's ridiculous. But then, why do you assume you are the thoughts that you can see as well?
If we WERE our thoughts, we would not be aware of them or at least, wouldn't be able to observe them. Like the tv. If we were the tv, we would be unaware of ourselves and what we were playing. But because we are an observer who either sits on the couch watching tv, or goes through life seeing/listening to/feeling our thoughts, we are something else.
If you FEEL a piece of wool, are YOU the wool?
If you HEAR a song, are YOU the song?
If you SEE a sunset, are YOU the sunset?
Now apply that to the thoughts and feelings that go on inside of you.
If you're watching tv, do you think YOU are the tv? No, that's ridiculous. But then, why do you assume you are the thoughts that you can see as well?
If we WERE our thoughts, we would not be aware of them or at least, wouldn't be able to observe them. Like the tv. If we were the tv, we would be unaware of ourselves and what we were playing. But because we are an observer who either sits on the couch watching tv, or goes through life seeing/listening to/feeling our thoughts, we are something else.
If you FEEL a piece of wool, are YOU the wool?
If you HEAR a song, are YOU the song?
If you SEE a sunset, are YOU the sunset?
Now apply that to the thoughts and feelings that go on inside of you.
