Are Your Thoughts Your Own?

Are your thoughts your own? Or are they something external? We explore the source and nature of thought in this witnessing meditation session. Each session is unique, starts with a 5-10 min discourse, followed by 20-minute Guided Meditation.

Be Well,
Dhyanse.

Transcript

A very warm welcome to all of you in this morning meditation session with me,

Dhyanshvara.

Every morning at 7am Central European Time,

I share few moments of contemplation,

Of meditation,

Of silence with you all.

So if you like,

You can join this no movement towards silence,

Towards awareness,

Every morning at 7am Central European Time.

I am live streaming these meditation sessions on all my social media channels,

On YouTube,

Facebook,

Twitter,

Periscope and so on.

Also these sessions are available afterwards as podcasts on various platforms so you can access them practically from anywhere.

The only thing that is needed is your wish to meditate,

To enter yourself,

To have those moments of silence every day.

Today in this session,

I would like to bring our awareness,

Our attention to what we call as thought.

It's a very fascinating phenomena thing that happens to us day in day out from the very beginning of our life to the last breath of our life.

What is this thought which we are constantly having,

Which we call as thought?

Just as I speak,

Take this moment to reflect,

To take your awareness to what we call as thought.

These fragments of noises,

Of language,

Of images,

Of ideas,

Of plans,

So many fragments that are coming somewhere in our inner space.

We perceive them,

We interact with them and then somewhere they are gone.

What are these fragments that are constantly coming in,

Going out?

What is it that we call as thought?

If you were to just say,

Well this is some neural activity that is happening in the brain,

Fine,

That's the footprint of it in the brain,

But when you observe it,

For you,

You are not observing your brain,

You are observing your thought.

What is this thought?

Have you ever paid attention?

If you look up the dictionary,

It's funny what the dictionary says what a thought is.

It says what is produced by thinking.

And when you look up what is thinking,

It says what comprises of thoughts.

So it's circular logic.

There is no explanation to what a thought is and what you actually perceive.

So it's a very,

Very fascinating phenomenon which we on day in day out,

We are interacting with it,

We are experiencing it and we are,

Some of us,

Or I would say most of us are struggling with it.

It's so much there,

It keeps us occupied,

It keeps us engaged throughout our life,

It keeps us worried,

It keeps us feeling all sorts of emotions,

It drives everything in our life,

But what is it?

What is a thought?

In today's meditation session,

We will attend to our thoughts and we will explore this for ourselves what are these thoughts.

Another interesting aspect of this thought process or thought or thinking,

What is the source of it?

Not just what is a thought,

But what is the source of the thought?

Interesting question,

Are you creating a thought or are you just receiving a thought and transmitting a thought?

Are you the producer of your own thought or are you just a receiver and transmitter of thought?

Because that changes the entire game.

If you are creating your own thought,

Fine,

Then you were expressing yourself,

Then you were authentically expressing yourself as an individual,

As a free human being,

As an alive human being,

But if you were not creating any thought,

If you were just receiving it and transmitting it,

And these are not your thoughts,

These are thoughts coming from somewhere,

Going somewhere,

Then what are you?

You are defined by your thought,

You are defined by the power of your thinking,

You are driving your whole day,

All your work,

Your personal life,

Your ideas of who you are,

Ideas of what this world is,

Ideas of right and wrong,

All those concepts fall apart if your thought is not yours.

How do you judge that your thought is yours and not that you received it from somewhere or you are transmitting it somewhere?

How do you know that?

In this session,

I invite you to witness your thoughts and explore these questions yourself.

You don't have to read a book about it,

You don't have to listen to somebody explaining that,

You have to just witness in your own awareness,

In your own consciousness,

What is this thought,

Where it's coming from,

What is the source of this thought,

How it arises,

Watch it carefully with full attention,

And where then it disappears further.

Observe,

Witness,

Also in your daily life,

Whatever is coming in your thinking,

In the process of your thinking,

Is this yours?

Is the thought authentically,

Originally yours?

Or is this just a combination,

A mix of what you had heard,

Received from somewhere?

It was there already in the world,

The world was already full of thoughts,

You entered,

You accessed that field,

That world of thoughts,

And you took some of those thoughts.

So ask yourself during the day,

While you are doing other things,

While you are involved in thinking,

Is this thinking,

Is this thought your own,

Or is this something external?

And that will lead you to realizations of whether you have an original thought,

Or whether this is just something external.

If it's external,

What to do with that?

Is this okay to have all external thoughts,

External ideas influencing you,

Driving you here and there?

Pay attention to your inner world,

Pay attention to your thinking.

Another small aspect to that is,

We also have something what we call as inner feeling,

That I feel in my gut,

In my heart,

In my intuition,

Somewhere I feel.

It's strange that we have empowered and positioned thought on the highest level.

We said,

Thought is strong,

Thought is what is going to be deciding what I'm going to do.

Thought is going to be leading my life and everything I do for the outside world as well.

An inner feeling that we have discarded,

We have dismissed,

We have put it aside as if that's some distraction,

That's some disturbance,

And that's something which is not really authentic or trustworthy.

We have shifted the trust from our inner feeling to the thought,

And thought can be external.

So we are essentially shifting our trust,

Laying our trust not in our own inner feeling,

Our own inner depths,

But rather something external.

Something that may be external,

May be your own creation,

But something that is on a completely different level.

In meditation,

There is a chance,

Possibility to observe all this,

Observe your inner world,

Sort your inner world out so that thought belongs to its right place,

Inner feelings,

Inner world belongs to its right place,

And whatever you feel,

Whatever comes actually out of your own heart,

Out of your own being,

You are empowered to execute on that.

You're empowered not to always get carried away with thoughts.

That's something we,

Over the process,

Also learn how to come out of the thoughts.

This is such another big problem in this world where thoughts are going on and on and on,

And we have no mechanism,

We have no way to address our thoughts,

To put them aside,

To take a distance from thoughts,

And we get carried away with them all the time.

So with these few questions,

Contemplations,

I invite you to close your eyes and sit for the next 15 minutes,

20 minutes with me in meditation.

I'll guide you through a few steps,

Give you a few small impulses to hold your awareness and attention on your thought process,

On witnessing your thought process before we move into silence.

Close your eyes.

Take a sitting posture with your back upright,

Head straight,

Shoulders down,

Legs either crossed or on a chair,

If you're sitting on a chair,

Legs down,

As long as your posture is comfortable and your back is upright,

It's good.

Eyes relaxed,

Take a nice deep breath,

Inhale from the nose,

And exhale from the nose.

Let go of your body,

Let go of your mind,

Allow yourself to come in this moment.

Let go of your mind.

Bring your awareness inwards from all different directions,

Draw the energy into your inner world,

Into your inner observation,

Into your inner witnessing.

As you're settled,

Shift your awareness to your thoughts.

Don't try to change anything,

Don't try to stop your thoughts,

Let everything the way it is,

Only you observe,

Silently observe what's going on in your mind,

What is the nature of these thoughts.

Let go of your mind.

Observe your thoughts rising and falling,

Without getting carried away with them,

Without being involved in the matter,

Simply observe your own mind.

Let go of your mind.

Let go of your mind.

As the thoughts arise,

Try to follow the thought backwards,

Towards its center.

Its source.

Where is the thought coming from?

Where is the thought coming from?

Where is the thought coming from?

What is the source of your thinking,

Of your thought,

The thought that you have right now?

Where is the source of your thinking?

Observe.

Practice silently.

Where is the thought disappearing?

Become aware of that.

Attention on where the thought is disappearing.

Report for collective appeal In between two thoughts,

There is a gap,

There is a silence.

Lift your awareness towards that gap.

And silence in between two thoughts.

Breathe in the silence between two thoughts.

Let your awareness settle in the silence in between two thoughts.

And silence in between two thoughts.

Let your awareness settle in the silence in between two thoughts.

Now leave all effort.

Just stay silent.

If you wish to stay silent for the next minutes,

You can remain in silence as long as you like.

Or very gently and slowly you may open your eyes.

Maintain this silent awareness as you proceed in your day,

In your daily routines.

And from time to time observe the process of your thinking.

Observe whether these thoughts that are all there in your mind,

Are they yours or are they something external?

If you have any questions on your meditation journey,

On your spiritual journey,

Please write to me on my social media platforms or channels or on helloattyansa.

Com And I will answer them in the upcoming sessions.

I wish you a very good day.

Namaste.

Reviews

This was truly great. Never thought I would let go of my thoughts by focusing on them.

really liked that. I plan to look him up on social media. thank you.

Excellent, perfect ratio of instruction and silence, and the intro talk was very insightful. It's somewhat disorienting though to realize how few of my thoughts are actually original. Maybe none of it is. Now THAT thought is both incredibly liberating and somewhat worrying, haha.

This is the most important and helpful message/meditation I have listened to in the last few weeks. I am downloading it. To move foreward, one has to begin at center. Thank you.