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y. Green light go!”</p></blockquote><p id="a16b">I’d bet my sweet buttery posterior you failed that spectacularly. Because <b>you can’t control what pops into your head</b> any more than you can control the weather! <i>Thoughts just sorta…happen, man</i>. You’re not their dictator.</p><p id="b719">So if these disorderly thought squatters aren’t taking orders from you, <b>who are they actually taking orders from?</b></p><p id="6364"><i>No one! They’re self-arising, independent little rascals, freeloading in your skull!</i> Your thoughts don’t belong to you — they simply take the Airbnb rental that is your cranium from time to time.</p><p id="a154">Look, I know what you’re thinking — “But, if I’m not the one thinking my thoughts, then who am I?”</p><p id="ac07"><b>You’re the one watching the thoughts!</b> The infinite field of awarene ss that the thoughts display upon, like a cosmic cinema screen.</p><blockquote id="1ef5"><p>You are the universe experiencing itself</p></blockquote><div id="6f3f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-power-of-cosmic-thinking-e80571a2b36f"> <div> <div> <h2>The Power of Cosmic Thinking</h2> <div><h3>Ever felt small staring up at the bazillions of stars in the night sky? Like your problems back on Earth suddenly seem…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Gj8-mremwpsxzpfID2BKXQ.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="e120"><i>You’re the silent observer, the ever-present witness.</i> Thoughts come, thoughts go, but you remain. An imperturbable, untamed, and frankly rather fabulous field of pure isness!</p><p id="36a0">So relax, my friends! you are <i>far</i> greater than any individual thought that scrambles through your bioelectrical gray matter.</p><p id="13ad"><b>You are the very boundary’less, deathless essence within which the entire universe arises, persists, and dissolves!</b

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If You Are Not Your Thoughts, Then Who Are You?

“What do you mean I’m not my thoughts? Of course, I am!” “These are MY thoughts happening in MY brain!”

Well, let me retort by asking you this:

Have you ever accidentally started thinking about banana pudding at the most random time ever?

You’re just going about your day, heading into the baboon office to file the night-thwacking reports, and BAM! Banana pudding intrusive thought!

Where did that come from? You haven’t had banana pudding since the Peloponnesian War back in 7th grade! Yet there it is, wafting through your brain goo like a weird, starchy vapor.

Clearly, you did not consciously choose to think about banana pudding at that particular moment. The thought just kinda…happened to you. Like a lil’mental freeloader crashing on your brain’s couch.

Which means even your zaniest, most unhinged thoughts don’t actually originate from you in any deliberate way. Thoughts just kind of appear, like a stray doggy at the kitchen door.

Who’s a good thought? You are! Yes you are! Such a crazy little thought, just showing up uninvited to my brain party!

But wait, it gets better! Here’s an experiment for you:

“Hi there, I’m going to need you to think about ANYTHING except sloths for the next 60 seconds. Whatever you do, don’t picture a sloth just hangin’ around bein’ all slothy. Green light go!”

I’d bet my sweet buttery posterior you failed that spectacularly. Because you can’t control what pops into your head any more than you can control the weather! Thoughts just sorta…happen, man. You’re not their dictator.

So if these disorderly thought squatters aren’t taking orders from you, who are they actually taking orders from?

No one! They’re self-arising, independent little rascals, freeloading in your skull! Your thoughts don’t belong to you — they simply take the Airbnb rental that is your cranium from time to time.

Look, I know what you’re thinking — “But, if I’m not the one thinking my thoughts, then who am I?”

You’re the one watching the thoughts! The infinite field of awarene ss that the thoughts display upon, like a cosmic cinema screen.

You are the universe experiencing itself

The Power of Cosmic Thinking

Ever felt small staring up at the bazillions of stars in the night sky? Like your problems back on Earth suddenly seem…

medium.com

You’re the silent observer, the ever-present witness. Thoughts come, thoughts go, but you remain. An imperturbable, untamed, and frankly rather fabulous field of pure isness!

So relax, my friends! you are far greater than any individual thought that scrambles through your bioelectrical gray matter.

You are the very boundary’less, deathless essence within which the entire universe arises, persists, and dissolves!

You are the grand miraculous existence itself! Capable of beholding any thought pattern, perception, or possible experience while remaining perfectly chef’s kiss untroubled by it all.

From that realization blossoms true freedom — to let thoughts come and go as they will, like clouds across an endless sky. You’re under no obligation to furiously identify with every passing mental fart!

So stop taking your whimsical thought poofs so seriously. Your thoughts aren’t the parent lecturing you, they’re the drunk heckling from the parking lot! Cute at times, but you know better than to actually listen.

You are the timeless, ever-present party observing the whole shaambled comedy act happening in your noggin from the balcony of eternity!

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Is It Normal To Talk To Yourself?

You’re not alone if you’ve found yourself talking to yourself.

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