To Think Less or Not!!

Written by Mathew Naismith

To think less or not is indeed the question it would seem today. I am bewildered, as it seems we have learnt very little considering the vast array of knowledge we have at hand.

What if I told you that it has nothing to do with how little you think, but more in how you think!! Think on this, did Buddha, through his enlightenment, stop thinking? You don’t stop thinking in an enlightened state, you simply think differently. As science has proven, even in a deep state of meditation the brain is still active, be it different parts of the brain become active while other parts of the brain become inactive. Actually, consciousness becomes even more active due to how aware a consciousness becomes in an enlightened state. Consciousness literally glows in this state.

In an enlightened state our brain becomes less active due to awareness, an awareness that our own egos cause our own suffering and misery. You will notice that within an enlightened state, the whole body (aura) lights up which means consciousness lights up. Consciousness becomes more active, not less active, even though the brain becomes less active overall. You could say that you are lighting up a consciousness through enlightenment to become more active on a consciousness level, not less active.

Yes, it seems you are thinking less in an enlightened state only because you are thinking differently to an ego controlled mind. Less of your brain is active, yes, but the parts of the brain that become active become a lot more active!! You are not actually thinking less but thinking differently in the absence of an ego controlled mind. Stop thinking in volume, that less of the brain is active, think how aware or active parts of your brain have become.

So if you are thinking in positives and negative, love and hate, good and bad, wrong and right, black and white, etc, is this of a less thinking mind? No, even desiring to feel love all the time is of a thinking mind instead of an active mind. Don’t get me wrong here, love lightens up consciousness but it must be in the absence of what you desire. A true sense of love, a love in the absence of a controlling ego, is based on awareness. The more aware you become, the more love you will experience without desiring this experience.     

Active mind: A mind in the absence of a controlling ego, an enlightened mind. 

Thinking mind: A mind in the presence of a controlling ego, an unenlightened mind. 

It is not the quantity of numbers that will make the difference, it is the quality of numbers that will make the difference!! Simply, enlightenment is about thinking in less of volume, quantity, space, time, etc, and more of thinking in the absence of.

Thinking in how less or more the mind is thinking, is thinking in line with a controlling ego, this is quantity. Quality is thinking how active and alight consciousness has become. Just by simply imagining that your consciousness is far more active and alight will make a difference in the way you think. Yes, an enlightened consciousness doesn’t think, it is simply aware but the mind reflects this by becoming more active, not less of thinking!!

Think in quality, not in quantity.