The power of no thoughts.
When you
cease to get involved with thoughts in any way, this will deprive them of your
attention and belief and they will decrease and finally disappear. By declining
to become involved in thoughts that keep the illusion of the false self ‘alive’
by associating it with various forms, this self will disappear as the illusion
it is. When this happens, creation will no longer be overlayed with the mind’s
projection of the ego but will be the reflection of ‘the One Self
’
There is nothing other than the Self in the universe. All the things you see as
existing in the phenomenal world are but reflections of the One Self’
Since the
illusion of the false ‘I’ is created by thoughts, if thoughts were to cease,
this illusion would be dispelled. The false ‘I’ may react with fear to the
prospect of not existing. To counteract this fear, it is useful to realise that
much of the time you have no sense of an ‘I’ anyway and you get along fine
without it. For example, when you are fully in the present moment, there is no
sense of a self doing or being anything.
A sense of self
can only arise when you separate from the present and indulge in conceptual
thoughts. Things happen just fine when you are one with the present, your
conscious mind is absent, and there is no notion of a self doing or being
anything. In fact, things may happen much better than if you imagine there is a
self who is doing what is happening and then try to use this imaginary self to
control events.
You can live
perfectly well without the notion of a part-time self that only arises when you
have become separated from the present. P75-77
(Extract from The
Power of Thoughts by John Goldthwaite Ph.D, published by Sri Sathya Sai Books &
Publications Trust ,Prasanthi Nilayam, Anatapur District, Andrha Pradesh. 515
134,