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Very short Exercise for dis-identifying with ego

banned_crabbanned_crab Veteran
edited February 2014 in Meditation
Be prepared to smile/laugh at any thought that comes to mind. You will notice something while laughing at each thought. You start to realize a feeling that triggers each thought. Its your ego trying to say "this is who I am" to anything that it possibly can. The more you do this the easier it will be to stop taking your thoughts so seriously. They will become nothing more than just thoughts.

Comments

  • DairyLamaDairyLama Veteran Veteran
    A sense of humour is certainly essential. ;)
  • ChazChaz The Remarkable Chaz Anywhere, Everywhere & Nowhere Veteran
    Thats just another form of clinging.

    Just sayin' .......
  • DairyLamaDairyLama Veteran Veteran
    Chaz said:

    Thats just another form of clinging.

    ?? I thought the point of the exercise was to reduce clinging?
  • ChazChaz The Remarkable Chaz Anywhere, Everywhere & Nowhere Veteran
    I'm sure that's the OP's intent.

    To laugh at a thought is to cling to it.

  • upekkaupekka Veteran
    can 'we' see, hear, smell, taste, or touch thought?
    or
    is it just an imagination in the mind?
  • howhow Veteran Veteran
    edited February 2014
    For Buddhist practitioners, worldly attachments can often morph into spiritual versions of the same. One's worldly identity in a practice when challenged easily accepts a new make over as a Buddhist practitioners identity to their new developing mentality.

    Those unable to smile at the hubris behind such a mentality, would be wise to question what makes their own thoughts are too sacred to be smiled at
  • wangchueywangchuey Veteran
    Whatever works for you. I usually just take a step back from my thoughts, then it just fades on its own.
  • DairyLamaDairyLama Veteran Veteran
    upekka said:

    can 'we' see, hear, smell, taste, or touch thought?
    or
    is it just an imagination in the mind?

    I think one problem with thought is the way it shapes our perceptions of what we see, hear etc. Another problem is that if we're too busy thinking we won't notice what's going on!
  • upekkaupekka Veteran
    SpinyNorman said:



    I think one problem with thought is the way it shapes our perceptions of what we see, hear etc. Another problem is that if we're too busy thinking we won't notice what's going on!

    if 'i' say

    if the 'thought' itself is 'perception' to begin with
    and
    we won't notice/know about it and start to think over it
    then
    that shapes the 'former perception' into a new 'thought'/'perception'

    and
    the same process continues again and again

    what would you think?
  • DairyLamaDairyLama Veteran Veteran
    upekka said:


    the same process continues again and again

    Yes, it all get's very habitual. I guess that's why mindfulness is so important?
    upekka
  • upekkaupekka Veteran
    SpinyNorman said:



    , it all get's very habitual. I guess that's why mindfulness is so important?

    identifying/mindfulness of the perception/thought/image in the mind is the key

    if 'we' couldn't identify the perception as perception
    'we' start to build/think/fabricate/create sankhara without a foundation
    what would happen to a building which is built without a foundation?

    same thing happend to 'our' fabrication which is built on perception
    whatever born has to die
    if 'we' could be mindful we would not fabricate
    then there is no birth so there is no death

    for a moment 'we' could stop getting old, getting sick

    but in the next moment another perception/thought would come into mind
    our job should be to be mindful of 'it' and not to start fabricate on it

    we will be able to slow down the habit gradually

    what would you think?





    pegembara
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