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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Thursday, September 22, 2005

Thinking on Thoughts

To contemplate on the mind is to observe the observer. I admit at times I get quite bewildered when observing the mind, as it naively wants to produce a separation, as though it is not the object of observation, but just the observer.

Thoughts are based on knowledge. Knowledge is composed of memories. Memories, of course, are limited and accumulative. The mind holds these memories. The mind creates these thoughts. The mind separates you and me. The mind creates these images and dreams and preferences, all based on knowledge, experience. All limited, as they are grounded in our narrow perceptions.

Thoughts are time. The two are the same. You cannot have thoughts without time. Thought is past and future in present.

The observer is the observed. The perceiver is the perceived. Watch the mind with the mind. They come from the same origin. There is no separation between the person who is aware and the object of that awareness.

posted by I Am This at 10:25 PM

Comments on "Thinking on Thoughts"

 

Blogger {.:M:.} said ... (10:34 PM) : 

i think about thoughts too... what are they like when other people think them? do i have the same in mind when i say "love" to the person i love, that him when he answers back? and more often i think about how do i get out of this tramp of thinking (may be thinking is too much, let´s feel for a while...)

 

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