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Being conscious or paying
attention is sufficient to solve most of life's problems. We all know how to
be conscious because we become conscious should the situation so demand. So,
there is no point in seeking assistance to eliminate the problems. The point
is, we don't know why we always choose to be unconscious. We choose
unconsciousness yet we don't know why we choose it and we forget that it was
what we opted for and that we can also opt for the opposite, and that is to be
conscious, to be aware.
A very frequently asked
question in meditation classes is how one can stop thoughts and the thinking
process. This question is a good example in understanding our attitude towards
the above-mentioned situation. Identification of a problem is nothing but
thinking about something again and again. This is an unconscious act. So,
asking how to stop thinking is not correct; you should ask how to be more
conscious or to be more aware.
Again this question is wrong
because it indicates your profound ignorance of the other option, of being
conscious. It is simply the question that you prefer. You always prefer to be
unconscious and eventually the temptation to be unconscious gains more
momentum and finally you are not aware that you are responsible for it and you
ask the question 'how can I stop thoughts ?' as if you are not doing it.
According to psychotherapy we
do not think about every thought as it comes along. Here again we avoid
something and we choose something else and that is choosing within the choice
because we have already opted to be unconscious rather than conscious and that
is why we begin to think. But again we are selective and we are very
fastidious in avoiding a particular thought--- If we interact with a trained
psychologist we can recognise this hide and seek game that goes on inside,
from the conversations that we have.
Psychology requires an
essential past history for everything. The past is very important to
psychologists and to them the past means the recent past, the childhood years
of the individuals. Interestingly religion is also concerned with the past but
not the recent past but previous births. What the theory of psychology and the
theory of karma have in common is that they are nothing but corresponding
files of related events. |
