Your mind is like a pool

[BIggleswerth]

Imagine a pool. Every wave in the pool, is a thought, sensation, or some other form of awareness.

Waves appear in the pool spontaneously.

The senses are constant ripples at different locations in the pool. Tiny waves, unless you're in pain, then they can be big waves.

Thoughts involving language are relatively bigger waves.

Following a train of thought is letting a wave hit the sides of the pool and create other waves (reactions to thoughts, reactions to reactions, etc).

Anxiety is a chaotic pattern of waves in the pool.

Meditating on the breath is when there is only 1 tiny localized ripple in the water.

Bliss is when the pool is still.

You don't have control over when the waves are produced, or even what pattern of waves are produced.

But you have this ability to increase the viscosity of the pool water, this is when you are being mindful, letting go, or relaxing. This causes the waves to dissipate quicker. Think what would happen if you tried to make a wave in maple syrup instead of water.

Letting thoughts "flow" or being in a flow state is setting the pool to be just vicious enough so that waves will still come, but go relatively quickly, so that waves that come next do not have interference with the previous wave in the pool.

Enlightenment is realizing this pool system with changing viscosity, when all you ever knew was patterns of waves in the pool.

What do you think about this analogy?

Edited March 2, 2019 by BIggleswerth

[Joseph Maynor]

Why does there have to be a conceptual answer to Enlightenment?  Notice that being doesn't need thought to be.  Being doesn't need meaning to be.  Being doesn't need belief to be.  When the thought-switch goes off, being is still being.

Edited March 2, 2019 by Joseph Maynor

[Truth Addict]

@BIggleswerth

Nice! Appreciated.

[Shin]

5 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Why does there have to be a conceptual answer to Enlightenment?  Notice that being doesn't need thought to be.  Being doesn't need meaning to be.  Being doesn't need belief to be.  When the thought-switch goes off, being is still being.

 

Because some people don't get it, and words is the only way to communicate on a forum ?

 

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[LastThursday]

@Shin isn't @Joseph Maynor using words? @Joseph Maynor aren't you using concepts to point to being and Enlightenment?

[Shin]

Just now, LastThursday said:

@Shin isn't @Joseph Maynor using words? @Joseph Maynor aren't you using concepts to point to being and Enlightenment?

He's using words to communicate that we can't communicate using words.

[LastThursday]

@Shin it's an easy trap to fall into. Making an argument against something, using the very thing you are arguing against. It's also easy to get snared by the trap, and then to argue against it...