In navolging van mijn realisatie op 22-12 dat ik dezelfde beginnersfout maakte als boeddhisten door te proberen meditatief te leven, te leven zonder gedachten, verlicht te worden ipv me te realiseren dat de gedachten pas stoppen als je verlicht bent.
Gister las ik hiervoor een bevestiging in Osho’s Gouden Sutra boek:
So many people come to me and they ask: “How to stop the thought?” They want to stop the thoughts directly. They cannot be stopped. Thoughts excist because desires exist. Unless you understand desire and drop desire, you will not be able to drop toughts – because thoughts are byproducts.
First the desire comes in. You see a beautifull car passing and a desire arises. Buddha will say “Car, Car” finished. If a desire has arisen in you, say again, “Desire, desire” and be finished. But you have seen a beautifull car and a dream, a desire takes posession of you.
But if you don’t drop desire, how can you stop thinking ? Thinking comes as a help. The mind says “Now i have to look into things, into how it should be mannaged”, Now there are a thousand and one problems to be solved, only then can desire be fullfilled.
Thinking is a device of desire to fullfill itself. You cannot stop thinking directly. Buddha says desire is like oil in a lamp: if the oil is no more, the flame will disappear on its own.