Thoughts and Everything Else....

The importance of ‘appropriate’ thinking can’t be underestimated. By appropriate, I don’t necessarily mean  accurate or perfect thinking. Over the period of time, one may come to realize, among many important things, a crucial aspect of thoughts – 

Thoughts give rise to a lot of impressions – emotions, desires, dissection (analysis), contemplation, the idea of ‘Time’ and its pressures, efficiency, idea of perfection, and so on. Summarily, they all indicate connections which our mind creates with our notion of finite life bounded by birth and death. Some may choose to equate these thoughts to the necessity of survival, and satisfying hunger and reacting to fear and catering to meaning. No one can escape any of these dimensions and wherever one see’s a human being - all above tendencies are encountered in a person. Thus the question to be asked to oneself is – how do some people exhibit an aura of eternal bliss, whereas others seem to exhibit tremendous agony and pain? Is the encountered condition a result of circumstances or is it our own doing? 

Thinking further, one may realize that what we can only control is what kinds of thoughts one wishes to entertain and express in terms of action. Thoughts lead to action which affects the environment around us. By how we act, others read our actions or interpret our thoughts and respond accordingly – this again fuels our own thoughts and actions. Thus, there is always ‘give and take’ with the environment. How much of this exchange can be regarded as purely ‘logical’ and how much can be interpreted and decoded? We don’t know for certain. 

However, what we can do, is to say those things and ask only those questions that lead to certain actions from others that compliment our choice of thoughts. Therefore, it is very important what question you ask to others. Depending on your question, you will get an answer. By fuelling fear, you ask questions related to anxiety, stress and act in those ways. Others react to your fear and compound it further! This creates a cycle. By choosing thoughts of empathy, gratitude, compassion – will lead to creation of that cycle. As much as there seem to be a lot of chaotic events happening ‘outside’ our body, our ‘internal’ world is equally (and perhaps even more) important thing to deal with. External events therefore, may not mean anything by themselves – we add meaning to them. 

Finally, we come to understanding of Void or Space – from where such thoughts emerge. The Void or Space is also within us and the realization of the same is a step closer to the feeling of bliss.