Are actions based upon thoughts?

[Psyche_92]

Hello,

A lot of people say that you shouldn't listen to your thoughts, and that 95% of them are unnecessary rumble. I feel if i do that, i wouldn't do anything at all, because right now my actions are based upon the thoughts i get in my mind. At least that's what it feels like. Is this true or false?

[Shin]

[Nahm]

@Psyche_92 if you can dream it, you can become it. If you don’t believe me, look at your finger tip. 

[eputkonen]

On 11/30/2017 at 11:03 AM, Psyche_92 said:

Hello,

A lot of people say that you shouldn't listen to your thoughts, and that 95% of them are unnecessary rumble. I feel if i do that, i wouldn't do anything at all, because right now my actions are based upon the thoughts i get in my mind. At least that's what it feels like. Is this true or false?

 

Thought is an addiction people have...and 95% of the thought is not needed (for the average person).  Now the mind/ego then thinks/feels...if I don't think I won't do anything.  But that is BS.  Don't fall for the tricks of the mind.  Right now many of your actions are not based upon thought at all.  When you need to take a dump...you just go do it.  You don't think about it and how you can fit it into your day.

Athletes will talk about being in the zone.  This is a time when you are not thinking...you are just acting.  Thought and the mind gets in the way from high performance in sports.  I used to study the martial arts.  A lot of time was spent in letting thought go, because it was when you are thinking that you will get hit more.  You can't think about defending yourself and how you will strike back...you just have to do it.  The less thought involved the better.  This involves trusting your understanding.  You know what to do...you don't have to think about it.

You can plan...that does require thought...but it is like hiking in the woods - you only need to look into the distance every once in a while to make sure you are still on course and then you look at where you are to make sure you don't trip over something, bump into something, or fall into a pit.  The focus is primarily on now...not on what is up ahead. 

Also choice does not require extensive thought and deliberation (internally).  We think/deliberate when we don't know what to do.  But when you know what to do, thought is not needed.  Furthermore, a lot of the thought we have is reflective thought...commentary on and critiquing what just happened.

I hope some of these examples and pointers help.  From my own experience, thought has pretty much stopped in the normal course of day to day life.  Hours could pass without a thought.  Even now...I am just typing and the words are coming out.  I am not thinking about what I am going to write...I am just writing.  In this way words and more-so actions just come from silence.  Spontaneous action based on what is going on and my own understanding/being.

You see...a compassionate person acts compassionately because they are compassionate (their understanding and being).  It comes from who they are.  They are not thinking all the time how to be compassionate.  They are not thinking about their actions and trying to determine if it was compassionate.  These would be the thoughts of someone who does not know compassion and is not compassionate.  So again, this involves trusting your understanding and allowing action to come from who you are.  If you know what to do...you don't have to think about it.

Edited December 1, 2017 by eputkonen

[Joseph Maynor]

You have to both listen to the Mind and not listen to the Mind.

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Edited December 2, 2017 by Joseph Maynor