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“THE ADDICTION OF THINKING”

By identifying with the mind (ego), we are unknowingly addicted to thinking totally—thoughts that merely appear and disappear, said to occur approximately 60,000 to 90,000 times a day.

This is because thinking makes us feel as if we have accomplished something, and the mind (ego) cannot leave the unresolved or unknown unknown—that is, it cannot trust the self-evident law that “everything will be able to be comprehended at the best possible time.”

In other words, “being present” is extremely difficult for an unconscious mind (ego).

Moreover, although the addictive thoughts clearly represent our own spiritual challenges, many of us are so addicted to them so much that we are unable to even realize this fact.

Moreover, the more unknowingly we are addicted, the more they as real manifests in our distorted reality.

Therefore, it becomes even more difficult to realize that we are addicted to our thoughts.

As a result, we unknowingly keep fighting against the illusion of a distorted reality that is not absolute reality at all, but a projection or interpretation of the past (we are completely unaware that it is like pushing water uphill with a rake because we blindly believe in visual information or interpretations).

At the same time, mysteriously and paradoxically, this is actually a manifestation of the profoundness of the most ultimate truth.

Even though we have everything within us to become aware of all the foolishness of the mind (ego), many of us remain identified with the mind (ego), clinging to second-hand knowledge of the truth and to experiences, objects and people that we claim are “mine,” and automatically act like ego-self. However exactly at the same time, awareness; its wholeness or openness as the non-self, The Self, is omnipresent beyond time and space, exists as the completely silent space where infinite possibilities, including this ego-self and else all the unknowns that have yet to appear, can manifest.

In other words, the truth of non-duality, The Self, as your true nature, non-self, is already and always present here and now; it is simply obscured by the illusion of identification with the mind (ego).

Looking at it from another angle, not only is it impossible for the mind (ego), which is an illusion as mere identification with thoughts, to become aware of the Self, but the essence that is already and always the Self cannot become the essence again; we as awareness merely simply need to become aware of this fact, but it never means having mere conceptual or logical understanding or kowledge at all.

Is there any other truth of such profound depth?

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What is necessary is to not take thoughts as fact, but that does not mean we fight or control them.

That is one of the deceptions of the mind (ego), and it only reinforces the sense of a separate self—“I’m doing something.”

Rather, just let them be, as they simply appear and disappear, just like emotions.

All we need to do is simply witness them as pure awareness, without getting caught up in them.

“Being caught up” here means taking these things as fact, being addicted to your thoughts, and totally swept up in mere illusions by its reactions.

However, if there is unsublimated emotional energy within, a repeating pattern will inevitably occur, and in that case, sublimate the energy by feeling that emotions fully (embracing them necessarily means letting them go).

If we don’t do this, no matter how hard we try, we will mentally, psychologically and spiritually remain stagnant in the same place as immaturity.

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Incidentally, many emotions are mere fantasies, born from ideas, and thus, those emotions are also continually created by our unknowing addiction to thinking.

Therefore, if you uncover the source of these ideas through self-inquiry with clarity of innermost stillness, those not authentic emotions will inevitably disappear as well.

In this way, it is natural that by seeing through the source, our perception of things and our reality will change, even still in dual world.

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Be aware of your thoughts.

And especially realize your patterns of attachment to biased thoughts.

These are the keys you need most to complete important spiritual challenges for you, and unless you become aware of them, the next door will not open. (OM 🙏)