Sunday, October 20, 2013

JTL Day 61 – “The More You Think”

I was watching the video by Bernard “Secret Mind and Thinking” and I would like to explore some things he said (Bernard's statements are broken out in points in numerical order, and then also have quotations marks):



1. “The more you think, the more you're creating outflows, which makes it more difficult for you to see, when you are self-honest and when you are deceiving.”


This is an interesting point as I often do not know what to write about on my daily writings because I simply cannot 'think' of anything. Could it be that I am thinking too much and therefore am not able to see where it is that I am being 'self-dishonest'? I, of course, do know the answer to this.



2. “So it is critically important within the point of the secret mind, that you have to walk through a time-period, where you are cleansing yourself”


Does this mean that I need to go through a period of time where I stop my thoughts as much as possible?



3. “That means, you're stopping your participation in all forms of creations or thoughts, that may have outflows of desire, so that you may see, what you have already created”


Wow, this is cool. Its not just stopping all thoughts, its stopping my participation on all forms of creations or thoughts that may have outflows of desire. It is interesting to note that just the idea of me trying to identify thoughts that have 'outflows of desire' strikes a bit of fear in me, as I fear that I cannot even identify these thoughts and 'creations'. While some I can identify, I fear that I cannot identify them all because I am not sure that I can see all the out-flows of desire associated with each thought, especially in the moment as they are coming up.



4. “...So that you may see what you have already created” -



So, back to my first point: I go 'blank' very often when it comes to writing self forgiveness because I just cant 'think' of anything. Then I go into fear because I know there are things to write about (and when I say write, I mean any form of self-honesty/self forgiveness, IN practice, whether it be writing or speaking, etc), but I cannot come up with anything. So, then I go into fear of myself, or fear that I am too-far gone to be able to stop my thoughts and my self-dishonesty. And the fear is then further proven to me as this seems to continue.



5. “Stop it (thoughts and creations that have outflows of desire), and that you can see what influence your world, that you are not creating and also so that you can create only that which you are going to stand by and for which you will be accountable”



- I would love to be in that position!



6. “You cannot play on words, or on movements, or on thoughts of desire to deliberately deceive and tempt other beings – please stop doing such things, because you're not harming them, unless they give permission for it – but you do harm yourself in being unable to trust yourself because you are creating more and more distrust within yourself because you're playing games to apparently have some form of outflow that you Desire”



– Ahh, this must be a 'creation' that he made reference to earlier. In this case, creating distrust in myself because of deliberately deceiving or tempting other beings because of my own self-interest and self-dishonesty. This is definitely something to explore.



7. “Now – in observing the secret mind, understand that the Secret Mind is your opinion about things that you think about – the opinions you form, is Secret Mind. You are basing your opinion on various inputs: experiences, words, things you've read – all kinds of things. But if you really look at the opinion that comes up – the opinion you form. It is judgmental, in nature. I has the principle of 'good' or 'bad'



Again, another area for me to have a look at. I probably need to carry a notepad with me and write things done as they come up because my opinions, thoughts, judgments, 'creations' come-up during the day and then I forget by the end of the day.



Ok, I will pick up later...

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