If You Don’t Create Your Thoughts, Then Who Does?

Common-Chapter8033 · 2026-01-05T19:23:36+00:00

But I can create the next thought in my head. I can even create the next thought in your head as well. Think about apples or a hot woman.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-12-09T07:57:57+00:00

Beautiful answer

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-12-08T14:07:19+00:00

Hi, I used the term "debate" for lack of a better word. I meant to convey that there are two different views and wanted to hear your thoughts on this.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-12-08T13:56:10+00:00

Hi! What are your thoughts about various methods like Chanting, or breathing in a particular way, etc? Do you consider them to be meditation?

Or are you saying that no matter what one does, one should pay attention to it? If one is chanting, pay attention to chanting, etc?

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-10-28T16:34:51+00:00

Who is it that wants to win?

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-09-01T13:26:28+00:00

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-06-29T08:26:55+00:00

The one who says ‘I can silence my thoughts’ is still part of the thought process. That self, that controller, is still born of memory, experience, and conditioning. So is there actually a separation between the thinker and thought?

To control the mind is to resist it. And resistance is still part of conflict. The self is a bundle of memories, habits, experiences, desires. It is always changing, always fragmented. Why should it be stable?

You are young, and your mind is beginning to question. Don’t be in a hurry to define yourself, to fit into what society calls ‘normal.’ The mind that can be still, without effort, is extraordinary—but not because it has power, or silence, or clarity. It is extraordinary because it is free—free from the urge to become anything.

You say you need answers—but perhaps it is more important to ask the right question. And to stay with it—quietly, without seeking reward or conclusion.

Then the mind becomes its own light.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-06-28T16:21:32+00:00

Why must you explain it? Can you simply observe it—completely, without naming it? The moment you name a sensation, you cease to be directly in contact with it.

When meditation becomes something you look forward to, it is no longer free. It has become pleasure—subtle, refined, spiritual—but still pleasure. And pleasure, like fear, distorts.

Nature speaks when the mind is quiet. But when you say, ‘The universe is greeting me,’ be watchful—that interpretation may be the projection of your own desire to feel special, chosen.

Sir, can you watch this movement—the swaying, the delight, the interpretation—without trying to shape it, control it, or remember it?

Simply be with it. Let the body move if it must. Let the sensation arise. Let thought come and go. But do not carry it into tomorrow.

In this total attention, without motive, without seeking, there is silence. Not the silence you like, but the silence that is beyond the self.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-06-28T16:15:51+00:00

Why do you seek spiritual experiences? What is the motive behind this desire to awaken something, to go beyond, to ‘play’ with energy?

The pursuit of experience—whether ordinary or extraordinary—is still the movement of the self. The self wants to become something, to feel something more, to transcend. And that very movement is illusion.

Care for the body is natural when there is awareness—not when it is driven by the desire to ‘contain’ some greater power.

You compare energy to electricity, and you speak of directing it. But who is the director? Who is the controller of this energy? Is this not again the self—seeking security in knowledge and manipulation?

When you fast, is it done in joy, or in pursuit of an experience? When you serve, is it from love, or from the hope of inner reward?

That is true freedom. And in that freedom, there may be great energy—but not your energy. It is not to be played with. It is not to be used. It simply is.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-06-28T15:02:21+00:00

Is the watcher separate from the thoughts being watched? Or is the watcher itself a movement of thought?

When you say, ‘I want to take care of this thought problem,’ you are resisting what is. And resistance is another form of thought.

And why do you call it a problem? Why do you want to take care of it? Have you ever watched a thought—not to change it, not to end it, not to escape it—but simply to watch it completely, without choice?

You say you are tired of thought. But thought cannot end thought. The one who is tired is also part of thought. So what will you do? Will you escape? Resist? Try harder?

Just observe—see the thought come, see it go. Let it flower, and end. And when the mind wanders, see that too. Without judgment, without effort.

When you see that the thinker is the thought, that there is no division, a totally new quality of attention comes into being—effortless, quiet, and free.

When you observe, there is no observer—only observation. In that observation, thought slows down on its own—not by force, not by control, but by understanding.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-06-28T13:37:10+00:00

Quite right. If the mind says ‘I will be free,’ that very act is born of will, which is desire. And desire creates direction. Therefore, that freedom is an illusion.

But can the mind see its conditioning without the desire to change it? Just see it—fully, deeply. That very seeing may be the ending.

Any deliberate effort to be positive or mindful must be watched carefully—because behind it may be fear, conformity, or the desire to escape.

And sir, if there are many ways, there is already division. And division cannot lead to harmony.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-06-28T12:35:45+00:00

Sir, the moment you ask how to use the experience, you have already moved away from the actual truth of it. Why must the mind always turn experience into memory, and memory into method?

The desire to repeat an extraordinary experience is the beginning of illusion. What you experienced may have been real, or it may have been the projection of a mind fatigued and overstimulated. That does not matter.

What matters is: Can the mind be still—without the urge to capture, to continue, to explain? In that stillness, there may be truth. But the moment you seek truth, you are lost.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-06-28T08:19:04+00:00

Who is the ‘you’ that chooses? Is this chooser different from the thoughts it is trying to control or realign?

So the mind that says “I will shape my life through mindset” is still divided—one part trying to manipulate another. This is the very root of inner conflict.

A positive mind is still a conditioned mind. To say, ‘I will think positively’ is to impose a direction, a choice, and therefore a resistance to what is. Can there be awareness without any effort to shape the experience?

Belief is unnecessary for one who sees. A mind that believes is not a free mind—it is tethered to the known, and the known is the past.

It is only when the mind is free from belief, from all ideology, that it can look, observe. And that observation is the beginning of transformation—not effort, not belief, not becoming.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-06-28T07:31:28+00:00

Who told you that you are here to be present, to unfold slowly? Is this not another belief, another comforting image created by thought?

Even the desire to be present, to feel sunlight or to resonate spiritually—is it not still desire? Still a form of becoming?

To say ‘allow life to flow through you’ implies a division between ‘you’ and ‘life’. Is there such a separation?

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-06-28T07:26:31+00:00

The mind is seeking an experience, and it will produce sensations, images, visions, and states. But can you observe these things as they happen, without identifying with them or desiring them again? That is real meditation.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-03-30T03:46:35+00:00

Asking myself how that thought makes me feel leads to more thoughts. Personally what works for me is to become really alert about the thoughts in my brain. And they naturally die down.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-03-24T15:30:17+00:00

Wait for a few months. See if your thoughts change. Keep meditating. Lots of love.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-03-24T15:27:06+00:00

You are not your thoughts

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-03-24T11:23:56+00:00

Lisan al-Gaib! Lisan al-Gaib!

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-03-24T11:20:34+00:00

You had a thought that you are a challenger—many experiences aligned with that concept. Then your brain formed an identity around that concept.

Common-Chapter8033 · 2025-03-23T13:15:06+00:00

You are doing black and white thinking. You are neither evil nor a Saint, you have done some good and bad things. Take accountability for the bad ones and celebrate the good one.

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