Frequency of Thoughts increasing

[kireet]

Now , it has been a week or two weeks since I have started a strong practice of do nothing and strong determination sitting. I think if we do this daily , our mind is become calmer and calmer and become less chaotic , isn’t it ? But the exact opposite is happening with me ....instead I am getting more and more thoughts and insights . Whilst sitting there I come up with many theories about the world and keep connecting the dots ..and come up sorta half baked epiphanies ..... why is this sort of backfiring happening . I have watched the videos a couple of times and I am sure that I am doing the practices right .but instead of mind becoming finer and finer , it’s contemplating more and more things . Questions , past traumas , situations come up suddenly, sometimes  I feel negative emotions very deeply and sometimes I become very happy thinking about things .sometimes it feels like I know everything in the universe , 5 seconds later it’s like everybody else seems to know everything I am the only one who knows nothing . What am I actually doing wrong and how should I work to calm the mind ?

[allislove]

Just continue. It's okay to experience different thoughts, the only issue when you believe in thought which doesn't feel good.
I suggest to have no expectation from meditation - like calming the mind. Just do it for the sake of enjoyment. 
Personally, I just sit with a straight back and put the attention on the deep breathing. Whenever I catch myself going into thinking about something I just return focus on breath, that's it. Meditation is who you are. It's about relaxing, it's about letting go the beliefs which don't feel good.

[traveler]

It is looking for an escape, it will do that until it doesn't. All of the epiphanies are actually meaningless, they are all small treats for the mind which stops the seeking for a couple of minutes, but it backfires with even more seeking afterwards because it is holding on to a state. What is actually longed for is the end of the search for something else, it uses incredible amounts of energy to make sense out of it's existence, but it never gets a satisfying answer. Because it actually doesn't exist, it is a dream, the dream of a real life and a real world and all of this real stuff. Many are totally immersed in the dream, they know what things are, they are sure that they are real and that this is just how it is. The mystery of this is lost in knowing. How funny is it that you actually think that you know what this is, this has nothing behind it/inside of it, there is no source to which this have a ground/base of knowing. It is totally wild and weird, amazing, and within it a story arises making it seem orderly and known. Nothing will ever fulfill the need that the person has of finding an answer or an end. The end is not a finding, it is the loss of the need to find anything. Thoughts are not the problem, THIS is appearing as a person having problems with thoughts.