Comments (2) on the Chapter: “Negative Thoughts”

Comments (2) on the Chapter: “Negative Thoughts” - (1854)

Excerpt

“The poor intellectual mammal does not want to realise that the multiplicity of thoughts crossing his mind have their origin in the several selves that we have within.

This means that we are not true thinking individuals, we really do not have an individual mind.

However, each of these different selves that we have within us, use our intellectual centre to think whenever they can.

It would therefore be absurd to identify ourselves with any particular negative or harmful thought, thinking that it is our intellectual centre.”

This is what we do when we identify with negative thoughts. We condition or enslave our values and make them
work in a earthly, mechanical and materialistic way.

Comment - Non-Identification

The above excerpt is paragraph number 4 to 7, counting down from the top of chapter 14.

These paragraphs say so much to us. One thing that they say is that the practice of non-identification with the various “I’s” that we have begins with our thoughts.

Our correct identity is our essence or our consciousness.

Because nearly all of our thoughts come from the “I’s” we have, it does not make sense to identify with them when we know our true identity. By identify, I mean to take their side or believe in them or become one with them. To not identify we must come somehow not to take their side or believe in them.

When we identify with them we think that we are thinking and that it is our mind or intellectual centre working but it is not so. Our intellectual centre is being used.

Non-identification means to not give our intellectual centre over to the various “I’s” that we have.

End (1854).

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