Some recent thoughts…
Lost in thought
We can be so in love with our own thinking at time can’t we? We can get complete lost in them.
And having become so invested in them we simply have to believe our thoughts are the one and only truth.
And then we get fixated on thinking our ways out of problems.
What is obscured from us is that the “problem” is the thoughts we seem fixated on, we believe to be true, that we have so much time invested in.
It is a vicious circle.
What also seems hidden is our actual experience of life.
All thoughts always move on, all good things start with a new thought, and it all happens inside us and not out there.
If we can return to those three truths, evidence of which is apparent to us every day, then the vicious circle surely become virtuous.
Subtraction vs Addition
Things we know to be ignorant or ill-informed should be dropped / expunged / eliminated.
Adding to them or papering over them does not reduce our ignorance.
Only abandonment reduces ignorance and lets new, better thinking in.
We become less ignorant and better informed in two ways – there is less bad and more good.
Less is more.
Subtraction is better than addition.