Thoughts are the voice of the mind.

 The chain of blogs about reality that I've been writing are going to start getting hard to understand without reading the other ones. As I'm about to point out, to understand what is going on one must look at the whole concept to understand the parts better. As I've said before, none of this is original. I'm just compiling all that I've learned. It's important to realize there is another significant aspect of the thinking voice that will covered in a different blog. Anyways....

I've heard it said by others, the thinking voice in our heads is called the monkey mind. It's time to realize you have a total mind. 

I realize I am not the first to think it, but it keeps coming back to me a statement I made recently; our thinking is the voice of our mind.  It's not complicated unless one makes it so, thoughts are the voice of the mind, like our spoken words are the voice of the body in the material world. In other words, thoughts, the thinking voice in our head, is our spiritual voice. The vocal cords produce sound waves, which technically are electromagnetic waves, but thoughts produce a higher frequency of electromagnetic waves. So in this way, thoughts are often, at least can be, much more powerful than spoken words, except one can't say a word vocally without the accompanying thought, so just imagine what would happen if you went around saying every thought out loud.

The point of this is, that in the same way when we say something out loud, it cannot be taken back, consequences ensue, relatively good or bad, it is the exact same with our thoughts. The main difference is, that the sound of one's voice eventually dies out, gets absorbed by matter, but our thoughts never degrade. Our physical sound communicates with other physical bodies with the sensory to pick up sound waves, our thoughts communicate with the immaterial as well as material; almost everything can sense thoughts.  Basically the voice is for those too insensitive to hear thoughts.

Some might ask, "Why do you think this is so?"  Well, the science is overwhelming, but it requires a ton of reading to get a sense of the whole because no one out there is really considering the whole.  Everyone has their knack or specialty.  Very few are considering, consolidating; the whole.  Consider for instance; duality. 

Let's use good and bad, or big and small, or any of those such things.  Big does not exist without small.  This means big by itself does not exist.  In reality there is no such thing as big; in reality there is big and small.  The issue here is that humans typically only see big, or small, they cannot ever physically see both.  This creates a lot of illusions in life that do not exist.  I think of it like a coin.  I can only ever see heads, or tails with my physical eyes; I can never see both.  Attempting to see both will only give me the side view, the middle, regardless of how thin the side is. Sticking to the metaphor, big and small, in reality is a coin; it is neither heads, nor tails, but is both. 

This points out a limitation of language.  Many sages, masters, what not, have gone into this issue quite deeply. What do we call the coin of big and small?  Size?  That is not appropriate either.  Size is just another facet. Size has an opposite too, so we've only created another duality using words.  The uneducated human monkey has trouble seeing the whole, so it is important even if not realized yet experientially, to understand there is a whole in reality. It's just that thoughts, words, will never be able to communicate what that is. Even though the words fail, it is important to understand this limitation of the mind. We don't even have words for the whole of things.  To realize the whole is a big part of what it is to be enlightened. 

What about the senses?  They are so limited.  We are able to sense less than 1% of what is going on right in front of our faces consciously.  We evolved with enough sensory perception to merely survive physically. This means no matter what you do, no matter how smart you are, if you are solely relying on your physical senses, in your experience you are aware of less than 1% of what is going on at any given moment.  This means, that even for a single second, to actually think one knows what is going on is absurd.  Ego in effect.  Add on top of this that your thinking is less than 1% of total brain activity at any given second, and suddenly thinking is nothing at all. We are not even talking about the mind here, we are simply talking about brain activity. The thinking aspect of our mind light up less than 1% of brain activity. It has just been pointed out that to rely on thoughts is meaningless in that it can never be a true representation of reality: not ever. I'm not saying thoughts are meaningless though, in that thought, as energy, leaves the mind, and travels the universe forever.  I'm saying thoughts are just like spoken words. They serve a purpose, but they are not who we are.

We are still evolving towards the fact that we have to survive our thoughts, same as we have to fight to survive our instinctual drives in civilization.

One facet of this coin is the issue that we live in a culture where thinking is given great priority.  Think about this.  Something which can never be a true representation of reality, something that can never actually be true, is given great priority, and is touted as truth.  This is really no different than if we gave one of our other senses great priority.  It would be just like saying because we see a rainbow, it is really there.  It isn't, but we say it is.  It is the same with our thoughts.  It's not that they are not there, but that they are not there in the way that we think they are.  Rainbows; nothing is as it seems, isn't that what they say?  Again, this is incredibly important; thoughts are the voice of the mind.  When you have a thought, it is the same as saying a sentence, but you are speaking to the whole universe with a thought. When you say something with your voice only those in proximity can hear you, but when you speak with your thoughts the whole universe can hear you.  This is why legitimate spiritual folk say to be so careful about your thoughts.  They are powerful things, just not what most people think they are.  

Spend some time looking up all the illusions our sensory perceptions fall for. There are so many optical illusions. We can't legitimately trust our vision. So it is with thoughts. If one has never been trained how to think, one cannot trust their thoughts at all. 

Try in your mind to see the whole coin.  Try to realize the whole coin.  Do not only see one side, but see the whole thing.  There is a star out there in the Universe that is so big it makes the star at the center of our solar system look like a grain of sand. What is big again? We have no idea. We live an illusion. Our monkey brains cannot grasp reality. Your mind can get a lot closer than your brain, but you will have to stop thinking to do so.

It is like trying to do one thing, while someone else is chattering away at you.  Realize this.  Separate from your thoughts; realize you are not your thoughts.  Can't you shut your mouth?  Don't you know when to shut up at work?  With your family?  Why can't you shut off your thoughts?  Thoughts are merely a very small, 1%, part of you.  Why can't you silence that inner talking? Most people I've ever known didn't even know that was an option. You can’t do it because you have not taught yourself how.  Now realize that most things have far more than a heads and a tail.  Think of your own personality, your own nature, your own being; how many facets are there?  Hold them all in your mind at once?  You can't do it can you? Can you see this limitation of thinking, with the thinker? Realize that to wrap ones mind around something totally one cannot think with the thinker.

I am trying to turn spiritual talk into a reality.  So much spiritual jargon is about this issue of grasping our own ignorance of reality. When one stops thinking one knows, and this knowing will never ever be able to be expressed with words.  Why is this?  Because when the thoughts stop, thoughts which can never be true, all that is left is the truth.  The human brain is the most amazing biological machine discovered to date, but the thinking voice aspect of it is incredibly limited.  Since before you came out of the womb your brain/body has been recording everything, sensing everything, evolving to everything, so it literally knows everything.  Our bodies are the result of millions of years of evolution in this very particular environment. The physical matter of which your brain is made is the stuff of stars, and that stuff has a memory of its own. It is billions of years old.  It knows everything.  This level of knowing is in direct correlation with just being.  If you stop your thoughts, you have no choice but to just be.  You will have no choice, but to be yourself.  There will be nothing else to be. 

The attachment to thoughts as being THE defining characteristic of mental activity is like believing the rainbow is really there.  It just isn't so. One of my favorite memes is the meme that says, if you are the voice in your head, then who is the one listening to it?

It's a pretty logical statement.  If thoughts cannot ever be a representation of reality, then thoughts are not meant to be used to determine reality. Thoughts are for communication of ideas. Memes.

So then, what do thoughts do?  They affect reality, same as our spoken words affect reality, except thoughts are, like I've said, far more out reaching. The important thing to realize is, the most important thing, is that everyone's brain is listening all the time. Jung labeled this the collective unconscious. True, 99.9% of it never crosses into most people's consciousness, but it is happening all the same.  I've said before in other blog posts, if I could somehow snap my fingers and make your total unconscious activity appear in your consciousness; you would think you were god.

Even though the person whom you spend the most time with is not ever consciously aware of your thoughts, be assured their mind is perfectly aware of your every thought.  All matter has consciousness, or it could be said differently, all matter has unconsciousness; all matter has an unconscious mind.  The entire Universe of matter is literally our unconscious. A rock for instance cannot think, but it can know.  A tree cannot think, as we monkeys do, but it has knowing. It is sentient, and our unconscious can interpret that tree knowing into our consciousness. Think here of the way in which our unconscious speaks to us through dreams via symbols.

If a European meets the lady ayahuasca she often will appear like a queen, but if an Amazonian sees her during a trip she will appear much different. We each translate reality differently.

Synchronicity has a great deal to do with thoughts.  All those supposed coincidences lined up just so; your thoughts have been perpetually going out into the universe: making it so!  Thinking of someone?  Needing it badly?  Remember that energy you had when you needed it badly, and it was suddenly there?  People always attribute this phenomenon to some god or other, but it really is their own thoughts.  Perpetuate that energy and you will always be getting what you think. This is that illusion we are god, in that the Universe responds to our thoughts, to our energy. If thoughts are electromagnetic waves, and the Universe is literally composed of electromagnetic waves, it logically follows the two are interacting. Remember, we evolved for millions of years to survive, why wouldn't part of our inborn, natural, survival processes be the ability to energetically speak the language of the Universe?

From my own experience it seems as though my thoughts became more powerful, in terms of affecting the universe, after I learned to stop thinking.  Spiritual texts confirm this phenomenon. 

The first time you have a thought and not even ten minutes goes by and you see your thought become reality; you will forever after guard your thoughts the same way you guard your tongue.  This is why the world is a nightmare at this point in time; can you imagine all the maddening thoughts of the suffering of the world?  How many sickening thoughts radiate from this planet every second of the day?  They are all perpetuating their own suffering by the thoughts they have. Look in that mirror.

This makes it true: the only way to improve the world is to improve one's self.  To know the Way; is to know one's Self.