A Thousand Thoughts Later...

And I wound up in the same place. I thought and I thought, but this thinking does us no good. In fact, it could very well be the root of all evil. So it is that I have began uprooting the thoughts I have thought, and have even began uprooting the patterns that cause me to think more thoughts. In this way, the faculty of thought will be seen as it is, the proprietor of Maya, of the cosmic delusion.

Would not only a crazy man murder himself? And would not only a delusional woman steal from herself? Yet the more that we thought, the more that we enabled all of this craziness and delusion. Even the one who asks "what thought must I think to end all of this thinking?" asks the wrong question.

It was thinkers who nailed Jesus to a cross.

It was thinkers who spread the fires of war.

It was thinkers who attempted to exterminate entire races of humans and animals.

It was thinkers who enslaved the Africans.

But none of these will tell you what the greatest sin is. No, the greatest sin is not to think, for a master may think without even sinning. The greatest sin is to create separation from God through ignorance. The most impossible thing that can be done is separation from God, but it is when we think that we create a deep fog in which we can no longer see God. This is the great delusion. This is the great sin. This is the cause of every time we suffer.

The thinking mind is not big enough to understand God. One must slow the thinking mind, let go of the thoughts, and just be with what is. You'll never believe what you will find there.

Namaste,

-Ben