J. Krishnamurti following the thought.
Just because it has never been said in the past does not mean it does not exist and that is thinking is silent self-talk and if one does not simultaneously silent self-talk what one wants to think, then one cannot think at all. This anomaly is a sure way to stop your thoughts in its tracks if you don’t want to use it. Thought is sound first. Not very different from speaking aloud. It makes sense that they both evolved simultaneously and together: one to be heard and the other for privacy.
When one has definite and instant control over thinking and with the advent of the silent mind, other mind spaces easily open up and are exposed for one to observe: intuitive thinking, consciousness awareness and pictorial thinking. These are a bit more difficult to control but can only disappear with time as one spends more time in the silent mind. Now you can observe them working and disappear as one starts to ignore them as they come up. It is more difficult to end compared to verbal-thinking as there is no anomaly to take advantage of, to use against it. But in meditation, one can see it disappear as the mind becomes “nothing”.
The magic about seeing this anomaly in verbal thinking is that you can use it anytime and not just during cross-legged meditation. When psychological thinking starts to bother you – put it away in an instant by remaining silent in silent self-talk thinking. The self-talk is observed by the tiny flutters of the vocal cords where one is verbalising your thoughts and if you do not verbalise there is no thinking as you know it. Leave it long enough this way with no thoughts in your mind and other mind spaces will open up in the silent space. explore them too by remaining silent and observing. It is all there in front of you: your whole world to Travelodge and explore in your own home. You will see how one’s mind creates everything that is you and then disappear at the end of the journey, lost in memory at the edge of the mind’s horizons and then it all appears again when you return to the present. It is a shocking reminder of the reality of the present moment in mind in oneself as life continues. All that thinking back again.
6th December 2019