Let It Play (Non-Duality) - The Unimportance Of Thoughts

Every thought arising is unimportant and if you watch and observe the mind it might be you know trying to come up with reasons why that statement is true.

Every thought arising is unimportant.

Now that doesn't mean that they can't be useful.

We'll talk about that in a second but somewhere along the way through patterns and programs there is this feeling that because a thought arises it needs to be reconciled,

Considered,

Resolved and yet every resolution of a thought or the interest and resolve in that thought is just another thought and this means all thoughts are unimportant.

Positive,

Negative,

They're all unimportant to being.

Now I mentioned that they can be useful.

Yes there are times in the play of life such as when critical thinking or creativity can be useful as the character to get something done but even then that usefulness,

The thoughts arising in that illusion of usefulness are also unimportant.

With this knowledge instinctual knowing of our true nature of what is.

Thoughts can be seen to be unimportant because they aren't personal to this character or that character and with that knowledge then they can just be allowed.

Allow all thoughts to be.

This isn't about only thinking positive thoughts,

Only thinking negative thoughts or sorry we're not thinking negative thoughts you know more positive thoughts over the negative.

They're all in the same side of the table so to speak they're all just arising.

Allow them to be,

Allow them to arise.

See that they don't come from anywhere.

See that they don't go anywhere.

See that they don't belong to you.

That you're not the one creating them.

You're not in control of them happening and again the mind might come.

The mind which also doesn't exist is just another thought.

It can feel it almost attacked like you're telling me I'm not useful.

That it don't matter and while that is true there can be some defense mechanisms arising because it's feeling attacked or at least challenged and it doesn't need to be that attacked.

It doesn't need to be that violent in its approach.

When you can see that all thoughts are unimportant and that they just happen then you can just allow them to be and realize that no additional thinking or brain CPU needs to be utilized to process why they're arising.

You know why did that come up or the meaning behind them.

The mind loves that meaning.

It loves that food to chew on.

Why did that happen?

You know why did I have that dream?

As is always the case on these talks there's no judgment for anyone that wants to find meaning behind dreams,

Meaning behind thoughts but the truth is that there is no meaning behind them.

They're just arising and if you want to put it in a positive and negative standpoint then you can say well if there's a you know if the attempt to find meaning behind thoughts is to look for something positive then the flip side of that is that there might be some negative meaning and then you're just in this this tangle of one versus the other this one's good this one's bad try to have more good look and see that the good and bad are non-existent the good thoughts and the bad thoughts they're not good or bad they're just arising and that's where peace is that's the space of being sits lives and the observation of the thoughts arising and the allowing for them to just be and another talk my friend Tigray made a great mention what I listened to another talk and mentioned something called mental fasting and I'll do another talk about our conversation regarding that but it's if thoughts arise and there is simply the allowance of them to be and there's no additional thoughts piled on to try to reconcile those or fix those or make them not happen and you can see this space between the thought arising and the observer your true nature what you truly are as the witness to the thought arising and it's not separate from it it seems that there might be this apparent separateness but you can find peace in the simple observation that a thought arising doesn't need to be considered I've done another another talk on a an awareness game or awareness exercise called invisible backpack you can search for it if there's interest but it's simply an exercise of walking around in the day and when a thought is arising that's trying to grab a hold of something and you know and chew on it you're using another thought to do it but you're you basically saying well I got a if we're gonna process that thought arising and try to figure out what's going on with it then I need to put that in this backpack you got to carry it around they can be useful but you don't need to pretend you have an invisible backpack on to just see and sit and observe that when they're coming up that you can just sit with them and allow them to be and and know that they're not you they're not your thoughts they're not personal they're just arising they're just happening this may be simple to do it may be easier said than done but it would start it can start with the first step of at least observing the space between the one that is the one that's able to observe a thought arising and the fact that it is just arising and if you could start with that that you don't need to go any further you can just keep doing that there's a mantra that sort of plays over and that a mantra thought that plays up and I don't mean mantras in some special sound but it's when when there's observing of stuff created because other people are doing something and or they're thinking something and there's a lot of this on social media and it's just let it play just let it play the world does not need your commentary it doesn't need your commentary on what people are doing and saying and thinking it doesn't and in it the more time that you spend thinking about that and trying to make that change really the more suffering you create because even the convincing of someone even the input on the way that someone else is doing something even the acceptance of that input doesn't create true satisfaction it doesn't create true peace the mind just moves on to the next thing and it in fact it's empowered well that person took my advice on this approach to whatever and so you know maybe they need that again in the future and they don't they don't need that again in the future and you don't need to assist them with it in fact if you can find the space of watching let's just say watching someone do something and capture either the thought or capture the advice before it reaches the mouth and capture it as the thought and look at it and be like I don't the words that are about to come out are not needed here they're not actually find maybe there might be resistance at first but you may find that there's more peace than that and then you can do that over and over and over again and find quiet in that space this is a especially interesting exercise when it comes to kids raising children because children need guidance on certain things but there's no more peaceful feeling or peaceful arising of joy than to let it play let a child do something not that's gonna be harmful for them but so that they can actually learn from those efforts learn from trying something over and over and over again and the same goes doesn't you don't you don't need kids to do this you can see this and and friends and family and people in the world and people online look for that piece don't look for the satisfaction of convincing someone externally that they should be doing something different let it play let things that are happening play out and if you're like no some things need interjection there's not that's not part of the that's almost a silly argument that's a silly road to go down you can sure let it play or don't but it's interesting to try let it play it comes up and what I what I also notice is interesting that even in the context of watching that happen and the thought that arises let it play there's even in some cases the mind wants to verbalize and tell the person just let it play well interestingly enough that's the same thing as what they might be doing to try to convince someone else so it ends up being a reminder for you to even the wanting to share that why do you bother spending your time trying to convince this person of that even that let it play energy trying to come out is it ends up being a really good reminder to listen to your own thoughts listen to your own words in that same context thoughts aren't bad we're not trying to get rid of them we're not trying to remove them we're not really trying to do anything but there is peace in the realization and the understanding that when a thought arises that it doesn't belong to you and it doesn't it doesn't need to be reconciled it doesn't need to be resolved and if you can sit with that if you watch that and see it happening and you can continue returning back to that back to that and again you're gonna get other thoughts that come up with that you know it might pile on back wow you didn't grab a hold of that really good job you know I know it'll do that to you but again that's why they're all on the same side of the table so to speak find that piece by allowing thoughts to be look for the space of being in that place and go there repeatedly and if you go there for some time and then it gets away and you get caught up in it that's okay just go back go back I know I try not to tell I try not to give description or a prescription tell me what to do but try it out