Provoking Thoughts

Provoking thoughts, and cutting through them in an instant.

If we want to know the truth, we have to drop what we think is the truth – our normal. Thinking we know the truth = a belief, and can be provoked. If we realise the truth, then we cannot be provoked; we can only be provoked when our ideas are on shaky ground.

If we want to know the truth, we have to drop what we think is the truth. Thinking the truth = a belief. If we realise the truth, then we cannot be provoked; we can only be provoked when our ideas are on shaky ground.

Thoughts are memories, and a defective reality because this is based on the past. To function, we scan our memory banks for selective information and past experience, and then act on this. As a result, we keep doing and saying the same things, and that creates our fixated obsessions. If that’s what we want, that’s what we get.

We are thick in confusion. Something is needed to cut through this programming, and that is to question ourselves: “Why do I go round in circles?” “Why can’t I break out of this cycle of existence?”

I once asked a psychologist, “How do you help people?” She said, “We return people to their normal state.” But that was why they had a problem in the first place! Samsara is this vicious cycle of existence – “We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to our own way.”

We cannot out-think ourselves, because thinking is the wrong tool. We have to use the faculty of consciousness to escape this duplicity – the state of being double. Consciousness, when realised, is uncontaminated with ideas – that is our true normal.

If we can be provoked, we are still unstable.
We all, like children, have gone astray;
each of us has turned to our own silly way.

We remember being silly sheep … and it was uncomfortable,
and it wasn’t all our fault.

True confidence is generous empathy.