Thinking Folly

 What do you know about Thinking Folly? Is it Thinking Folly is really vital in our life? What is Thinking Folly all about?  Actually thinking creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It becomes you and yourself, between you and nature, between you and God. 

Thinking Folly is an exhilarating excerpt from Eckhart Tolle who was a contemporary spiritual teacher and he is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. He writes with the timeless and uncomplicated clarify of the ancient spiritual masters and imparts a simple yet profound message : There is a way out of suffering and into peace. This excerpt is from his best known work, The Power of Now. 

In this excerpt, the writer would like to advocate to the readers that, "Don't take your thoughts too seriously". Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within  the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow , mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. 

Thinking has become a disease. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly since you usually don't use it at all. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.  The instrument has taken you over. You are unconsciously identified with it, so you don't even know that you are its slave. It's almost as if you were being possessed without knowing it, and so you take the possessing entity to be yourself. Besides that, the mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing and analyzing information this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. 

 According to Albert Einstein imagination is more important than knowledge. All true scientists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. Even the great scientists such as the renowned physicist Albert Einstein have reported that their creative breakthroughs came at a time of mental quietude.  According to Einstein his working methods, were that thinking, " plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself". So I would say that the simple reason why the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to stop thinking. 

Thinking that is not rooted in awareness becomes self-serving and dysfunctional. Cleverness devoid of wisdom is extremely dangerous and destructive. That is that current state of most of humanity. The amplification of thought as science and technology, although intrinsically neither good nor bad, has also become destructive because so often the thinking out of which it comes has no roots in awareness.