Thought
“At a certain moment of your life you get thought by the living earth.” Martin Shaw, Courting the Wild Twin
Do we ‘think’, or are we ‘thought’?
In The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle says ‘I am not my mind’. I comprehend this as meaning ‘my thoughts are not me,’ ‘my ego is not me’ and ‘I am more than my mind’.
What if thoughts are ‘thought beings’ that exist ‘out there’ and are constantly vying for our attention and our level of consciousness in the moment only allows matching ones in? Our level of consciousness is simply the frequency our ‘radio receiver’ is tuned in to in the moment. Happy people have happy thoughts and unhappy people unhappy thoughts.
The best creative writing tip I ever received was: ‘go with the first thought.’ Live in the moment of what is. This is also occurs in Buddhism as “first thought, best thought”. It’s the first creative whisper before the busy mind (or ego’s) fog of judgment and opinion jumps in. “First thought” is “best thought” because it is pure inspiration in the moment, untainted by ‘if only’s of past regrets or ‘what-ifs’ of future hopes and fears, the bucketloads of insecure opinions, interpretations, and likes and dislikes. It is what is.
It’s a subtle distinction and the adversary spirits are very good at pretending to be ‘me’ so we often think their thoughts are ours.
One of the ‘thinkers’ I used to have was particularly vicious. After a really nasty thought I silently asked ‘Who are you?’, and felt a ‘whoosh’ as the the spirit fled from the light of my awareness. After a session with a dear friend that spirit does not visit me anymore.
Douglas Harding saw a self-portrait and had a spontaneous awakening when he realised he had no head.
