The mind (not “your mind”… that’s a delusion) is »not for thinking. The aspect of your »brain that does ‘thinking’ is like the fingernail of one of your pinky fingers, in relation to your brain. That aspect ‘thinks’ it’s the ‘only game in town’.

Analogously, imagine a ship made of very thin wood, that ‘navigates’ by destroying itself against vast rocks in the sea. It only ‘sees’ the rocks, and determines ‘what matters’ by destroying itself against them. Each time it wrecks against a rock, it determines that ‘this is the real, the actual, the true’. It completely ignores everything else. It just keeps a record of each rock it destroys itself against, and forgets many of them, as well as conserving ‘offenses’ and forgetting features of each wreck.

This is what most of ‘thinking’ and ‘analysis’ does, in modern humans. It ‘rules’ over our interiority and perspective, judgements, and evaluations of qualities and values. It’s mostly unaware of qualities and values. But ‘thinks’ it ‘knows everything about them’. This is not even »thinking, but it’s a lot of what usually ‘qualifies’ as thinking among moderns.

The mind is »not for thinking. It’s for intimacy, learning, going beyond thought, experience… participation and »communion with other beings, Nature and its own origins. This strongly resembles »dreaming, not »thinking.

Forcing your mind to “think” is like nailing a bird to a wall, because “no one can grasp free flight”.

Discovering the nature of the mind is like exploring spacetime, or origin, from the perspective of one who is always seeking deeper intimacy and participatory communion with its natures, origins and features. This is more like kissing than it is like thinking.

There are, of course, »some forms of thinking, that can escape ‘the gravity well’ of common habits. I’m using one right now, to craft this text.

Go beyond what you’ve thought before. What you’ve been capable of thinking. Use thought to »escape its traps, not reinforce them.