THINKING....THINKING

 Of course there is thinking and it matters for practical purposes etc it’s just that the thinking is not produced or rather assumed to be produced by a central author, there is no thinker. There is only thinking. Your brain processes thoughts but it does not create thoughts from nothing. If you have control over your thinking, you must be able to stop thinking. Realising that the self is a fiction does not change anything it just dissolves the illusion of an ‘I’ a central controller/manager. The organism can function quite well and a whole lot better without ‘you’. You as the organism still has the same knowledge, memory, desires, likes and dislikes etc, it’s just that you realise you are not a tiny isolated entity, all alone in the universe fighting against the threat of otherness to annihilate ‘you’. All fear of death is fear of destruction of ‘self’ because deep down we all realise that the body has a finite timespan as form, we accept ageing and the dissolution of things, but we are not sure about self, so we invent reincarnation of the personal soul.

The realisation that there is no such thing as the entity I referred to as Phil, is an incredible liberation. Things go on as before, there is even a sense of self, it’s just that you don’t even own that sense of self, as paradoxical as it seems. Its really just a subtle shift in perspective. You realise that everything is vastly interconnected, not that my mind could ever comprehend those relationships, but you sense it all the same. True creativity is where you access that gap in the thinking to perceive through immediate awareness, sometimes called insight. Thinking will only give you knowledge base recall, there is no such thing as true, creative thinking. Imagination is just a form of thinking where you form pictures in your head of future projections and possibilities, based on what you know from the past. You imagine how something might be, even though there is no such thing as future beyond a thought in the mind and that thought about future can only exist in the present moment anyway. This is ok for practical planning and making appointments but it is not a creative act as such, life can only be alive and creative in the present.