Don't Believe Everything You Think

by Joseph Nguyen

He realized that he was so deep in his torment that he was ready to kill somebody.

The samurai’s eyes filled with tears. Setting his sword aside, he put his palms together and obsequiously bowed in gratitude for this insight. The Zen master gently acknowle...

The most interesting and almost paradoxical thing about stopping our thinking is that we don't have to do anything to minimize it other than to be aware of it.

This is how our minds also work. If we let our thinking sit without disturbing it by trying to "filter" or "boil" it, the thinking will settle down on its own and our minds will become free from thinking.

That beautiful state we always want is something we can never lose, but only forget. But just because we can forget it doesn't mean it's not there. Just like when it becomes night and the sun sets, we know that the sun is always there, we just can't see it.

We are ever really one moment away from remembering that we always have that infinite well of clarity, love, joy, peace, and fulfillment.

“Anxiety is thought without control. Flow is control without thought.” — James Clear

I think, therefore I suffer.

There are two sources of goals: goals created out of inspiration and goals created out of desperation.

It's through creating goals and dreams out of inspiration instead of desperation.

It feels like a calling rather than an obligation. It is like there's a powerful force of life coming from within us, wanting to be expressed through us to be made manifested into the physical world.

When we feel like this, we are creating from a place of abundance instead of lack.

We don't create because we feel like we HAVE to. We create because we simply want to and there's no other reason.

This feeling of deep inspiration is incredibly difficult to describe because it does not come from this world. It really doesn't come from us, but through us from something greater than us. I like to call this feeling divine inspiration because the ideas and vision we have of what we want to create seem to be far bigger than we could have possibly imagined or come up with ourselves.

It knows no boundaries, limits, or constraints. It is an incredibly expansive force that energizes and lifts us, making us feel like we're "high" on life. In this state, we feel whole, complete, filled with unconditional love, joy, and peace. We don't analyze, compare, criticize, judge, or rationalize anything, but instead we truly live, love, share, give, create, grow, and nourish.

It really is one of the greatest feelings we can experience, and it is truly a gift that we can experience the divine as humans (and it's because we're from the same

As soon as we begin to think about the thought of us wanting to create, it completely shuts off the source of that inspiration and we go back to living life as usual.

We can only ever follow one calling at a time, either inspiration or desperation in the present moment. The two cannot coexist at the same time, but we can fluctuate between the two depending on how much thinking is going on.

When we follow divine inspiration, we feel alive, whole, joy, love, peace, and fulfillment.

Most likely you'll have this goal because you want to go do something you actually enjoy, but you can see how the goal of quitting your job is just a means goal for you to go do something else.

We don't feel like we HAVE to create it, but that we WANT to. Instead of feeling like you NEED to do this, you feel inspired to.

Since it's coming from inspiration, we are not doing it to get something out of it so that we can do something else. It's not a means goal, but simply an end in and of itself. There is no "reason" we need to create it.

We are not creating so that we can feel whole, but we are creating because we feel whole and want to give from that place, not expecting anything from it.

If you look at children, they naturally have the wildest dreams and imaginations of what they want to do. It almost doesn't even register in their minds that they can't do something most of the time. The only difference between us and children is that we have learned to shut down all these thoughts of inspiration which contain our dreams, hopes,

and goals that we truly want to see manifested in the world. Our minds are filled more with reasons of why we can't than thoughts of what we want to create.

Think of the flow of inspiration to create like a river. The river always flows until man puts something there to block it, like a dam. Then when the dam is there, we ask why there are so many fish dying, animals disappearing, and forests dwindling, when all we need to do was return the river back to

its natural state and everything will be working perfectly fine, the way nature intended it

"If I had infinite money, already traveled the world, had no fear, and didn't receive any recognition for what I do, what would I do or what would I create?"

“The greatest power that mankind could ever achieve is the power of unconditional love. This is when people love with no limitations, conditions or boundaries.” — Tony Green

I realized that if I create reasons for why I love her, then it makes my love for her conditional to those specific

traits or actions and if she doesn't do them, then I don't love her. This is, of course, not true.

There were no reasons for why she loved me because if she had reasons, it would mean she only loved me if I were exuding those traits or doing those things she had in her mind. Her love for me is not based on my mood or what I did, her love for me goes beyond all “reasons” and does not come from a place of reciprocity. She does not love me because I love her, nor is she loving me because of what I can do for her.

She is experiencing so much love

within herself that it’s an outpour of an abundance of love that she is gift...

We are all connected to this pure, unconditional love, which is God, the Universe, or whichever name you choose to use.

Very few people operate in this space because we always put conditions around what we do or make.

What we're ultimately looking for are feelings.

when we create something without conditions or reasons, we actually immediately feel all of the positive feelings we want.

Unconditional creation is creating something without it being for another purpose, but purely to create it because we just want to create

Our brains will make us think that it is pointless to do something just simply because we want to, but that is the secret.

This is when we experience flow, oneness, and a direct connection to the Universe/God.

"Don't think. It complicates things. Just feel, and if it feels like home then follow its path.” — R.M. Drake.

Once you see that it is just your thinking and that there’s nothing to be afraid of, then you will experience true peace in your life in the present.

Don't worry, this is all normal and part of the process of awakening. You've already learned the hardest part, which is to practice non-thinking and preventing your negative thinking from controlling your life.

What actually happened was the death of the personal ego.

The point is to not try to prevent your thinking from ever entering your mind, but to shorten the time that it takes for you to remember that it is just your

thinking that’s causing the negative emotions.

It’s impossible to prevent thinking from happening because it’s...

We can’t prevent that initial reaction, but we can always remember the truth and return to our natural state of peace — and that’s all that matters.

When we stop thinking, this energy we used to use to think is now “freed up”, but it hasn’t been directed anywhere yet and what happens is we return to our old patterns of putting that energy back into thinking because that is how we were conditioned.