Eckhart Tolle: You Are Not The Thought (Tao Te Ching) 

Thank you 😁💕

And everyone out there ! I am right now in this moment and am breaking these negative habits it’s gonna be hard but Ik I’m not my thoughts! You got this ! 💕

Thanks Steve

There is no observer there just IS

I have trouble actually believing this. I want to. Every time I experience a thought, I say to myself “what if I am my thoughts?” But I guess that doubt is just another thought.

Ah hoy shipmate! Captain Steve i met you in the Med last July!!

@@aneisharora1354 you don't need to believe or disbelieve it, you need to know it and experience it Learn advaita vedanta

Man i totally agree.. Well said

Totally agree, it's a relief to know i am not the only one struggling with overthinking my thoughts

Thinking about thinking is metacognition which can be very helpful in exploring why we think what we think. Thinking about thoughts, however, yeah it's very bad.

Yes

I'm doing too but think OCD may burn out soon

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I know people are having hard time so don't want to be flippant. God bless.take care xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Sorry missed the c

Personally, I think most people could be depressed at many things happening on our beautiful planet. So sad that we miss the lesson. I AM HUMAN AND STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW

​@@margoschofield1918how are you doing now?

At least you are listening.

The ego is a great servant but a terrible master - I which I remembered where I read that.

I have noticed that the more accurate a thought is the more empowering, inspiring, uplifting, wholesome and encouraging tends to be. Highly inaccurate thoughts tend to be filled with illogical negative assumptions and never work, they are therefore irrelevant. For example: Let's say an average 50 y/o woman would love to play guitar but she thinks it's too late to learn to play well at her age, that's an example of a disempowering thought full of assumptions and logical fallacies. Because, in reality, the average 50 y/o can totally learn to play guitar very well with 1h of daily practice for a couple years. And can totally derive great enjoyment from practicing guitar in the first couple of months, and that would be an encouraging, empowering, uplifting thought and (most importantly) it's vastly more accurate in relation to reality than the "can't do it" one. This was just an example, but in my experience it works with every single thought without fail. Empowering = more accurate Disempowering = highly inaccurate Long story short, anything less than neutral is just smoke and mirrors and has no relevance whatsoever for you. Except for its utility in order to recognize what's highly inaccurate.

Wow, that's deep. So you're like a theatre, listening and watching whispers with no bodies. The whispers have no person connected to it.

Either fix the pain or completly accept it

The idea is to fully use your mind and thoughts to solve problems when you need to. When you are not problem solving (doing homework etc) you should aim to live in the present and enjoy the here and now. The majority of the time we are not problem solving

Read The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks …all the answers to your questions. Truly changed my life from constant worrying to almost constant peace and quiet joy

Good question

You're held accountable for what you say, not what you think. Who can hold you accountable for what you think besides yourself? And how can you hold yourself accountable for something if you don't believe it's true? If someone told you an obvious lie, how can you be held accountable if you don't believe it nor repeat it nor act on it?

Read the Power of Now. Will explain and improve your happiness 1000 fold imho

If you feel you are the space - then you don't get lost in the thought. The thought does not consume you. You can the see the thought for what it is: useful, useless, pointless, senseless, imaginary, insightful, meaningful or meaningless. If you listen to what Mr. Tolle says across different videos - you'll be able to see it. If one practises being aware of one's thoughts - the miserable or negative feelings that come with many (not all) thoughts, and keep knocking again and again can cease. But for that to happen - one has to be aware of the thought.

@@shilpisarkar6827 I'd say even all of them, once you realize that no disempowering thought is accurate it's totally possible to let them all float by while you remain relaxed.

@@KnockManJo Yes, you are right. It's that keen awareness, which allows one to identify those critters of disempowering and generally negative thoughts and also to see that they are not accurate. When the awareness is low - that complete identification takes over. What a nice way to put it in: "...let them float all by while you remain relaxed...". Someone should write a song with those words.

@@shilpisarkar6827 There's a song with something similar that comes to mind. "Here Comes a Thought" from the Steven Universe animated series, its lyrics are designed to put you in the Observer position. One of the lines says: "We can watch, we can watch them (thoughts) go by, from here".

@@KnockManJo Thanks a tonne for the song suggestion. Delightful and perceptive song, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the little video along with, and the line "something you (I) did that failed to be charming" made me chuckle. But yes, the song does allow one to be in the observer mode. Interesting to think that it's made for children. Thank you, again. I think you may like a song by Tenzin Choegyal: The Heart Sutra. I don't know for sure though. Wishing you a good day ahead.

I believe it’s Stephen Mitchell’s translation... He has said on a couple of occasions that he prefers it... I have that version myself, a good easy read...

@@runeterjesen3353 which book?

I Voyager it’ the Tao te Ching.

The idea is that right positive thinking comes up by itself when you let any kind of thought float away

It is not a she either, her mind ffs )-:

That is the normal spelling but both can be used

The "Dao" that can be spoken is not the eternal, so it's the same which word or pronunciation you use

Google this: the difference in Dao and Tao. The answer should help you understand. It helped me.