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.

Being the Quality of Change

Written by Mathew Naismith

If people like Jesus and Buddha couldn't change the world, how are thousands or even millions of people working towards a singular goal going to change the world? Considering the enlightenment of Jesus and Buddha and many other wise and aware people in human history, millions of people not of the quality of this enlightenment are obviously not going to change the world either. We need to be honest with ourselves here, so what is the answer?

I wrote the following in regards to light and dark, light overwhelming or overcoming dark.

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Imagine yourself in a completely dark room; now shine a small light, what has your focus, the dark or the light? The light is more pronounced within the dark than in the light, even though the light is surrounded by darkness!!

As it's not the quantity of people that will change the world but the quality, it's the quality of the light within the dark that will change the world, not the volume of light. If the light within the dark is not pronounceable, the dark will be more pronounced.

It all comes down to not being of the quantity or volume but the quality.........

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Imagine a light room with a small dark area, what is your focus going to be on? The dark because it's more pronounced within a light room. Now imagine a balance of light and dark within a room, which, out of light and dark, is going to be your main focus on? Neither, the focus will be mainly on the balance of light and dark because it's the balance of light and dark that becomes more pronounceable/obvious.

When you go into a house that is made up of a decor of a balance of black and white, what do you notice the most, the black or white? The balance between black and white becomes the main focus, even when a brightly coloured object is added. The brightly coloured object will take your attention but your main focus is still going to be on the pronounced, the balance of black and white.

Buddha, being a prince, was in a safe heaven away from all the negatives of the world outside of his safe heaven. Jesus was a carpenter, this was his safe heaven. What did both of these people do? They went way outside of their safe heavens!! They faced the so-called negatives face on outside of their personal safe heavens, most importantly, facing the degradation of their own being. Degradation simply refers to how our desires overrule all else. In their case the act of going outside of their safe heaven was to deny their own personal desires control over them. They became more focused on the collective than the individual.

The negatives outside of their safe heavens became more pronounced, this is represented by the dark in regards to their own light. Their main focus wasn't on the light but the dark, as the dark became more pronounced to them. In truth, what is our main focus on? The light, while at the same time ostracising and/or having disdain for the dark!!! Should we give more attention, love and goodwill to the light or the dark? We most often give our attention to the light, not the dark. Yes, the quantity of people are trying to change the world but not the quality, as most of the quantity simply desires to create a personal safe heaven, not go out from their safe heaven to assist in real change.

I often give as much attention to the perpetrators as I do the victims, for example, I often give more time to bullies and abusers than I do their victims. For people like me, the perpetrators are as much of a victim of themselves as of anyone!!

All you need to be is the quality of change, not the quantity of change........M G Naismith