By the time I reach the waters, my carrot is just an orange disc, and I pop it into my mouth. Leaning against the railings, I close my eyes, relinquish control of the moment, and begin to meditate. Wind gently brushes my nape, whistling as it passes by. I breathe in, and I expand. A single drop of light illuminates from my chest, and the drop sprouts into a river, emanating warmth throughout my body.
Water curls against the shore like a metronome syncing the environment and the elements together. I breathe out, and I melt, feeling the light radiate onto the waters, then rushing down the boardwalk, reaching the man in the headphones and lighting up each building in its path. Even my own, even the mirror in the lobby. The light grows and grows, branching out into streams and canals that envelop Vancouver, then North America, and finally, the entire world.
Opening my eyes once again, I look out at the view of the water, astonished by the muddiness of the view.
Recently, the clouds have launched a coup against the sky, laying heavy and thick over the ether, and today, it seems they have pounced onto the land. Rarely is the mind pure of thought. A cast of greyness subsumes the Northern mountains, molding them into the dense air and draining them of color, and I return home surrounded still in clouds. Dani Zhang is a School of Communication Sophomore.
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Rapid Recap: No. View Results. But even though that's what meditators strive to do — it's not clear how much of a blank state they can actually achieve. But it's clear that "meditators are a lot more tuned into what their thoughts are," Kam told Live Science. There's a difference between having a thought, and being aware that you're having a thought, she said. So if you ask someone what they're thinking about and they respond with "nothing," they could just not be aware that they're having thoughts, Kam said.
For instance, you could be deeply in thought about a relationship or an upcoming test, and you only become aware of it when someone taps you on the shoulder and snaps you out of it, she said.
People who are thinking about "nothing" could also be having stream of consciousness thoughts that don't tell a coherent story, Halassa said. But the brain never actually stops "thinking" in a broader sense. Most thoughts are actually happening in the background without us being aware of them, and "there's not really a way to turn these things off," Halassa told Live Science.
If you see a familiar face in a crowd and think you know them, you might not be able to come up with how you know them right away, Halassa said.
But maybe hours later, you'll suddenly remember. Thoughts are not a continuous phenomenon. It is the flow of many energies which get form because of words. It is worth understanding what happens when a thought comes to our mind. For example, we are just sitting and a thought came to mind. At this time try to understand how the thought came and why. It is not essential that we should succeed in finding these answers. But ask these questions to yourself with a feeling that someone from inside us is going to guide us and you are going to hear the answer from inside.
After seeing an object why did a particular thought come to my mind? Did this thought come because I have seen this object before or was there any incident related to it, is there any relation to the surrounding environment. Try to find this out. Try to find the root of the thought without giving an answer. If we try to find the answer then it becomes a play of mind.
Such an answer is pre-determined. It is a ready made answer from the garbage-bag of the past and hence can not be really in tune with the present that is NOW. The current thought and the reason behind it can be different from similar thought in the past and the reason behind that thought.
Like this try to go deeper in the mind. When the Chaitanya is given motion in a particular direction, it produces symbols.
So the dynamic formless energy, when takes forms, they emerge as specific words, arrangement of words and gestures. But if we can observe this dynamic energy before it has taken forms, then thoughts get destroyed before they are produced and thoughtless state can be achieved. We always experience that -thoughts return to our mind.
In reality they do not return to the mind …… but we keep on giving them energy by losing our awareness and by getting carried away in our own thoughts.
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