We Need To Challenge Our Thoughts

Why do I think the way I think?
Not many of us ask this question.

We need to challenge our thoughts, otherwise we will be stuck with the same old attitude all our life. Thoughts are not our own; we acquire them. The shock of realising this can be demoralising. It’s pride in the thoughts we’ve adopted – especially when we’ve read them in a book – and that keeps us bound to social fantasies.

When a person has opinions on everything, it’s like listening to an old newspaper seller … “Read all about it!”

We are not challenging others; we are challenging our thinking – not to change our mind, but to notice why our mind reacts in the way it does. That noticing changes our entire view because that noticing comes from consciousness, which is the observer of the mind.

Just listening without distraction is meditation.
Reflecting is seeing the sequence of events.

Meditative reflection transcends thoughts.
Transcendence comes from pure consciousness.

Few of us are truth-literate,
because few of us consider consciousness to be important.