Positive Thinking: Wrong thinking

The quality of our lives depends more on what we are inside than outside. But how many of us really look within? Wrong thinking punishes us. Hence it is essential to look within and create an order therein.

It is very hard to look within. Why so?

We are programmed to believe that happiness is outside. This lie or myth or programming governs our lives. The process of thinking involves a flow of thoughts. Thoughts move outward in search of happiness, name, fame, money or power. Happiness, however, does not result from material affluence. It is a result of our attitude to life. Happiness is a result of our being in the present. Enlightenment happens in the present. But our lives are always focused either on the past or future. Life is in the present. So be present in the present. Then a different ‘presence’ opens up. Whatever you are doing, be total in it. Bring in your totality of being in the ‘here and now.’

Then a different aliveness opens up. Do wrong thoughts distort our relationship? The most important thing is: Can you look at anything without the interference of thoughts? When you are looking at a flower, can you just look? Pure looking is beautiful. But if you look at it from thoughtfulness, thoughts interpret it as a good or bad flower.

A thought compares it with something else. By this you don’t look, but superimpose. The discipline to look at something without thoughts is important. When you require using your thoughts, only then should you bring in a thought. When negative thoughts pile up they seed negative attitude. Negative attitude enforces negative thoughts. These negative thoughts superimpose energy on the objects of thought, and the object of any thought appears to be negative.

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