It is almost insignificant.

I don't want to go any further without sharing this little tidbit.  I probably have written about this before, but maybe this time it will be a little more succinct.  I am about to show you how your whole life has been a lie.  Hold on tight.

In each and every second of your life your brain has been sending and receiving information with the universe.  Before you were even born your brain was recording.  As you read this right now your brain is processing about 11 million, let's call them bits, of information per second.  Every second that your brain is on and conscious it is completely aware of it surroundings.  It knows every last detail that the eyes, ears, skin, tongue, and all the other organs can detect.  The entire body is a sensor for the brain.  It all happens without you thinking about it.  Now think about this, really try to wrap your mind around what 11 million bits per second means and then realize your "thinking" is about 40 of them.

Take out a piece of paper and attempt to make the smallest possible dot you can using a pen or pencil.   No matter how small you make that dot, it will be too big.  For it to be accurate, it would need to be barely visible.  That dot; that is your thinking!  The rest of the paper is your total brain activity during any given second.  Now add that up in the totality of your life.  Your entire life you have "thought" that your "thinking" was YOU!  Your thinking isn’t even hardly a fraction of what is the total you.  All of your life your “thinking” has only been aware of a super tiny smidgen of what was really happening in that moment. 

Your thinking is not even a percentage of the total Self.  Well, that is until you get your thinking in line with what actually is occurring.  There is a reality occurring despite your opinion of it.  The idea is to learn to observe free of opinion; to observe without thinking. 

This is why all spiritual masters say to meditate and learn to turn off your thinking.  When you learn to listen to your unconscious mind it literally sets you free because it freaking knows almost everything.  There is very little to fear when you know everything!  When you stop thinking life changes.

Do not get me wrong.  It is not like one never thinks again or something.  It is just learning to put it where it belongs.  Learning that the thinking part of you is just that.  A part.  An extremely tiny part of the whole.  Your thinking is almost insignificant in comparison to the whole. 

My friend told me it’s hard.  Yes of course it is.  At first it is very hard.  If you are just attempting it you are combating an entire lifetime of it being one way.  One is having to un-train an entire life of habit and completely re-train it  another way.  Lots of things in life are hard at first.  Until one becomes good at changing, and puts in a lot of practice into it, change will seem difficult.  Anytime the body/mind has to be retrained consciously it is difficult at first, especially if the change involves a habit.   

Who just walks on a golf course and drives a ball straight?  Who just walks up to the free throw line and makes ten shots in a row first time in?  Who paints the perfect picture the first time they pick up the brush?  On and on I could go.  Nothing worth doing is easy; especially at first. 

Every single thought you have ever had was just a little tiny smidgen of whatever was really going on at that moment.  Moment to moment your thoughts aren't even really a fraction of the real life situation which is occurring at that moment. 

Here is that spiritual duality again.  We are nothing, yet we are everything.  This is why the spiritual masters say to look within.  If you can figure out how your own brain works you can tap into those other 11 million bits of information that it has been being stored away your entire life.  Think about that!  Being able to tap into the full power of your brain knowing it is processing that much information every second!  It can be done.  The funny part is, the irony, is that you will never be able to convey it verbally.  The actual occurrence of it anyways.  Life experience will become so complicated it cannot be expressed.  When thinking is put in its proper place life becomes other worldly, and it cannot be described fully.  That is why mystics sound so mystical.  At first….

Think of yourself now.  Here you were thinking your thinking was you.  Now imagine tapping into the rest of your brain; imagine tapping into the rest of your Self.  Can you contrast the difference between this fearful thinking part that most people have right this second versus another part that is never afraid because it is completely aware and basically knows everything?  This is why becoming aware is so important.  Can you see this contrast in the spiritual language of the mystics.  Peace is within!  Look within and you will find joy!  Look within and you will find god they say. 

Men are always attributing what they do not understand to some god or other.  They are always falling short of the real thing thus constantly misnaming phenomenon as god.  Go d is not within necessarily.  If there is a creator it is much more than that.  It has to be.  Look at the size of the universe!  Tapping into one’s unconscious mind would make a person seem like a god in comparison to billions of people who are not.  Think about that. 

When Cortez landed in what is now Mexico the natives thought him and his men were demons or gods.  They rode horses and had armor.  They killed thousands of them with just a small group of men they had to be gods.  They were not gods they just knew more about reality.  There are countless other examples of this in the history books where men thought other men who seemed somehow to have more powers than they, that they were gods.   I don’t think it is that difficult to see this phenomenon occurring even now.  All the time people who dedicate themselves to something get put on a pedestal as if they are better than the rest.  They are not better.  They simply opened up their brain and their body.  They did the thing.  It just happens to be a spiritual process for many so it often gets put into spiritual language. 

Wake up!