Thought without a Thinker

So many are trying to overcome the mind, thinking, and have a better life. We know that drama comes from our heads and we are trying mightily to overcome it. We read so much literature, eastern and otherwise, pointing us in the direction of the mind as the source of human misery. It all makes so much sense. The problem has to be stinkin’ thinkin’. Doesn’t it?

But wait. What if I told you that negative thinking is not the problem by a long shot? What if I told you the problem was thought itself, but in a way that we have not realized before? What if I told you that there is no thinker!?

Here is the problem. We have identified ourselves as thought. We think we are thought.

It is as if we had identified ourselves with our right hand. We experience what the right hand experiences, we feel what it feels. We adopt the perspective of the right hand. We think we are the right hand. As long as we never question ourselves as the right hand we never know what the left hand is doing! Our experience of life is relegated to that of the right hand only.

But in the brain there is no thinker. Thought just happens. Thinking is a function, not a person. It is a byproduct of language and association. But since we identify with it, our experience of life is restricted to the content of thought – good or bad. The practice of Witness Thought Transformation breaks the bonds of this identification and we finally experience freedom from the mind.

The message is that we can work on our negative thinking, but as long as we believe we are the thinker, we live in thought’s prison.

Every secret but one is in my new book!

My new book, Mastering Thought (Before it Masters You), is just about ready to hit the market! But I am going to tell you the missing secret right now. I would not want you to buy my new book and be disappointed because this one secret is not in the book. What’s the missing secret? The secret to financial success.Why did I leave it out of my new book? Simple, you already have 15 books promising that!

Haven’t we all bought those books, been to those workshops, and worn those T-shirts only to find that the people who achieved financial success were those selling books, workshops, and T-shirts? I have been to mega marketing events where every hour wave after wave of people plopped down their credit cards in the hopes that they finally were buying the secret to financial success.

Also, consider this; what if you are elderly, disabled, or you are a caretaker to others. In other words, your life circumstance simply does not make you a candidate for lots of material achievement. What then? How do you improve your life?

My new book, Mastering Thought (Before it Masters You), is about something far more fundamental than money. The secret that I reveal in my new book has kept human kind in a mental prison for thousands of years. This is a book about the voice in your head that sounds like you talking to you. I reveal the truth about what it is and where it comes from – and, of course, what’s to be done about it.

Oh, and while we are on the subject, there is another secret that is not revealed in the book – how to have more positive thoughts. There is nothing wrong with positive thoughts. The problem is thought itself. If our fundamental relationship to a thought is based on a misunderstanding and a false belief then having more positive thoughts will not fix the problem of thought! I show you how to fix this in my book.

Once you break out of the prison that thought creates, you will not want to go back into prison to create more positive thoughts. That just doesn’t make sense.

Mastering Thought (Before it masters You) challenges our basic belief about thought, the voice in the head, and our emotional reactions. It won’t tell you the secret to financial success, but it will reveal the secret to Life itself.

The Witness Consciousness Two-Step

I am finding that Witness Consciousness has two distinct steps to it. The first of course is the initial thought watching. This leads to a huge breakthrough in awareness and a “knowing” that is easy to experience. But then I have observed that without practice people go back into their ego and the drama of the world. The knowing that comes with the initial breakthrough never leaves however.

This requires step number two. In a way, this is more work than the first step. Practice! Yes, we need to keep watching our thoughts in order to stop the slide back into the ego mind and the patters of unconsciousness that we all have. This requires a sustained effort at “watching” over a period of a year or two until it becomes second nature. That’s why building a community of watchers is so important in order to support the practice.

Does anyone else have thoughts on this two-step process?