Thinking is a powerful tool
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19 September, 2014
What is thinking?
Please understand, thinking is one of the powerful tools you have - just as you have legs for walking. Legs, and the ability to walk using the legs, is one of the capabilities you have. If you put your legs this way, you will go forward; if you put your legs this way, you will go backward. It is a system. To climb a hill, you will have to use your legs in a certain way. There is a system. Just as your legs have their own method, their own way of functioning, or your hands have their own way, their own method of functioning, your thinking too has a system!
From the young age, we all have been taught how to use our hands and legs. We pick up the method just by seeing people around us. But, unfortunately, thinking was never taught systematically, scientifically.
Your thinking can be binding you, or your thinking can be liberating you. I have seen some kids putting their legs and stepping in such a way that their own legs lock each other and they fall on the ground. Same way, there are people whose own thinking brings them down.
For example, if you carry an idea that you will have enough food for yourself only if you snatch it from another person, your very thinking trend itself will bring you down. What will you do? Naturally, you will become a robber. If you think that only by snatching from another person you will have food, you will snatch, then steal, then rob - which is actually not required! It is your thinking that makes you whatever you are. Your thinking can be liberating you, or your thinking can be suffocating you.
