What You Think, You Become

[phoenix666]

the mind is everything. what you think, you become. - Buddha

how true is that?

is it possible to slowly, but steadily become what you surround yourself with? like if you read, think, watch and hear about enlightenment, self actualization and stuff, is that actually rewiring your mind? to what extend do you think/feel this is true?

I ask because the more I meditate, do self inquiry, watch videos about this stuff, keep my journaling up, read and write on this forum, the more I change. it's not that I've had any big insights or aha moments or awakenings lately - not since my last trip some months ago. but I sense a very subtle change, day after day. so subtle, it could easily go unnoticed. but it's accumulating and I truly feel more loving, calm, compassionate and all the things I read about. 

or do I imagine all of this? is it just my ego tricking me into thinking that I am moving up on the awareness scale? 

not sure if my point comes across, hahah I hope you get what I am wondering about

much love <3

[Nahm]

@phoenix666 I really hear you here. I suggest you find out for yourself. Cover your walls with wanted, wether that is material, experience, etc. Write it out a million times. Focus on it always. Then you'll know. All I have for you are words and good intentions. 

[phoenix666]

@Nahm this is a good suggestion. I guess I'll just see where this path is going to bring me. thanks for your inspiring inputs always!

[phoenix666]

@Mad Max I don't really get it^^

 

@Shiva I don't know why, I can't explain it, like you say. but at the moment I feel that there in fact is some deeper truth to it. 

[phoenix666]

@Shiva let's do that!

haha let me know if you find out 

[Hero in progress]

@phoenix666

If you ever experience a completely non conceptual moment, then this quote from the great Siddhartha will have much more significants then we can comprehend at this time.

You have to remember that Gautama was profoundly conscious! So much so that is inconceivable to us all at this point.

Because of this, you can appreciate that he didn't say things willy nilly. This piercingly insightful quote flows from the true wisdom of existence, we may only relate to Buddha as a man, we will have a image & idea of him. But really he was a fully realised being. The whole of this existence spoke from his mouth.

Concept is a very creative aspect of existence, it literally projects movies & dreams into existence. 

For example your whole sense of self is conceptual in nature, the fact that you have a life story is conceptual in nature, the sense that you have a body is conceptual in nature. That maybe difficult to understand for some, but I know this from direct consciousness. 

We may find this difficult to realise aswell because are not really fully conscious of what concept is, or recognise its creative power! 

The whole world doesn't recognise what concept really is, and live in projected, superimposed dreams. That's the power of concept!

Concept & thinking are synonymous.

If you sit around by your self for a year, you will start to directly become conscious of the nature of concept.

[Nahm]

@Hero in progress I agree. I take that quote as pertaining to the One that is thinking this 'me' up, which is me thinking me. It does also work well on the 'what type of person you'll become' and 'what your experience will be like' levels quite well also. It's a broad stroke of truth through many levels really. 

[phoenix666]

@Hero in progress I get it from an intellectual standpoint. and I am fully aware of the fact that that doesn't have any importance at all. I know that I have to experience all that, in order to fully grasp the magnitude.. 

as soon as I think about concept, I create more concepts ect. it's a vicious cycle. and I always come to this 'problem' of infinite regress.

I guess I really have to just sit down and become conscious, step by step.

thank you for your answer <3

[vizual]

The funny thing is, is that you have zero control over the content of your thoughts. Let's say you desire to become the President of the US, that thought of that desire was not in your conscious control. It's the flow of life that put that certain desire in your mind. So when you take Donald Trump for instance. Sure, he first had the thought of becoming the President of the US, and so his desire actually came to manifestation. But that desire was not of his choosing.

So in a way, there is truth to it, your thoughts manifests your reality. But to think that you can jus think things to manifestation would be delusional. Your thoughts, desires and destiny are all intertwined into one. So if you take that quote apart: "What you think, you become", it kinda suggests that there is something that is control of what it thinks, and thus it can consciously decide what it wants to become. But the thinking and the becoming are actually one thing. Meaning, in truth, there is no causality between thinking and becoming.