FIRST EMAIL:

Hi, A good article. However, i must say when you sleep you ARE STILL THINKING---as i have fantastic DREAMS AND sometimes nightmares too-(AS WE all do)..--ALL VIVID....sleep IS NOT really peace--just A TIME OF OUR LIFE WITH..LESS of the DAILY BEDLAM. Finally, this IS A PRISON PLANET..and it DOES SUKKKK.

Nem: Whether asleep or awake you can stop all thinking all the time if you've trained yourself. Sleep is just an example, and of course it was deep, dreamless sleep, and no conscious thoughts. So yes, one can be without thought.

SECOND EMAIL:

Yep, Nem, I totally get the drift. The kind of fidgety, twerky thinking you reference here almost qualifies as something along the lines of a static signal left over from an egoic big bang of some type. The special kind of crazy that one might get from watching endless Gilligan re-runs and too many Nabisco ads. The squawk incessant, as it were. Or as it was, cause it was in that way that most of our childhoods were spent. Then, off to war, or what have you.

There was this Siddhartha Gautama fellow once who came to find out that one pathway to transcending the mundane was to kill off this constant cubs game ringing in his head. Come to find out, he got some heavy interest from some sort of control structure once he had a little luck in coming unstuck from the here and now that is neither. Or, so the story goes.

Now, I'm not one to follow any dogmas around, but the constants in that fellow's experiences have a funny way of resonating through the years in a pattern that I've been able to recognize from time to time. These fellows would wander off into the "wilderness", or what have you, and come back special.

This Eden fable, well, I don't know. Suffice it to say that perhaps a time ago, something was done to us that requires a bit of undoing now and again. A part of us that periodically needs killed off to keep things in proper order, perhaps. A cleansing prairie fire of the soul, if you will. Or, maybe we are just assembled strange, who knows. But yeah, spending a little time in the quiet of the soul will change one incrementally. So it seems.

Nem: That was a fun read.

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: You first have to rethink in order to stop thinking: I am a
: piece of life.

: I am a piece of life until I start thinking I am something
: more or something else.

: All the evidence says I’m a piece of life.

: All my thinking says I am something more or something else.

: Is there something is wrong with my thinking?

: No, something is wrong with the information I have been given
: to think about.

: So I stopped thinking and realized I am a piece of life.

: The world is different when you stop thinking.

: When you stop thinking you become the peace that passes all
: understanding.

: When you stop thinking you become one with everything that is,
: with all creation.

: You become a piece of life.

: All my troubles disappeared.

: I am no longer afraid, anxious, worried, concerned. I no
: longer get irritated, upset or angry. I do not get
: depressed. I no longer call things good or bad.

: Everything is just what it is, and I without a thought to
: disturb my peace.

: I have freed myself from the energy robbing thoughts that
: fueled my delusions of mind.

: I have more energy to do things.

: Until you experience the peace that passes all understanding
: you know not the peace, and until you stop thinking you
: will not have the experience.

: As to everyday things, I use discernment, and I work to make
: life pleasant. Yet, and however, if my work fails to
: produce pleasantness around me and others, I am always
: pleasant within, and redouble my efforts to produce
: pleasantness without.

: How can one be pleasant within when there is unpleasantness
: without? It’s easy. I don’t give it a thought. I just work
: harder.

: When you draw no conclusions, have no beliefs, dogma, no
: prejudices, no biases, no opinions and make no judgments,
: you live in the real world, not in the world created by the
: information (thoughts) of a mind gone delusional.

: When you are asleep, are you not at peace? When deep asleep
: there are no thoughts. Delusions of mind are gone.

: Creation is a vast consciousness. Why subject it to a
: micro-consciousness that can’t even make dirt.

: Creation is smart, unlike micro-consciousness.

: If life, if creation, if the power that fuels creation turned
: over its job to you, if it said, “You run your body, you
: take conscious control of your heart, blood, liver, spleen
: and everything else that keeps you alive,” you wouldn’t
: last one minute.

: We did NOTHING to be here and do NOTHING to keep ourselves
: here (all beliefs aside, since believing is not knowing)
: except respond to our body’s signals, “Get the hell out of
: the rain; put on a coat; get shelter; drink, eat and
: excrete, and procreate,” AND YET, many think they are not a
: piece of life, think they are something more or something
: else, even gods, gods that cant even control their minds
: and emotions, much less make dirt.

: When one gets out of the delusions of mind and surrenders to
: the reality that is, while yet working to create
: pleasantness, that one stops being a mindful idiot and
: starts to enjoy all that is life.

: And YES, you have to be out of his mind to enjoy all that is
: life. nem