"Positive thinking makes you happy! Happy, because you can always look at yourself like you are looking at a miracle. Positive thinking is the magnet of happiness. If you think of something, you will start attracting it. If your thoughts are beautiful, you will attract beautiful things, whereas if you are looking at the world pessimistically, your whole life will be a tragedy. Change it, and you will be happy!""
Yes, that
is what is missing from your life: happiness! You read the rest of the text on
the page with interest:
The
five main points of positive thinking:
I am existing in this world in order to fulfill my mission.I achieve what I really want–I want things that are positive for me and advance me in life.In the course of my development I need practice, experience and insight.
I am able to convert my negative emotions and thoughts into positive ones.I am capable of loving myself, even with my weaknesses and faults.
If you wish to experience these five points, your
life will be happier, more wholesome and harmonic.
You are
invigorated by what you have read, you believe that you are alive, first time
for several days, and the world around you is beautiful. You decide that
from now on you will think positively, and with the power of positive thinking
you will be able to change your life.
Is
That Really True?
We
suggest that we should together have a closer look at those positive thoughts.
I
am existing in this world in order to fulfill my mission.
In order
to fulfill our mission, we need to know in the first place what our mission is!
During our spiritual Journey, our mind has set up a number of goals and objectives for us. We have
often believed: yes, that is it, that is the real thing, but finally we
realized with disappointment that it was not the case. What is
the guarantee that the new goal set up in front of us by our mind, positive
thinking, will really change our life?
We do not
even have a chance to see that as long as we seek for the mission of our life
in the world of shapes and forms. Still,
this endless chase for unfulfilled desires is not entirely useless as, after a
while we get tired on our spiritual Journey, and realize the futility of the eternal
treadwheel.
I
achieve what I really want–I want things that are positive for me and advance
me in life.
This idea
further refines the notion of our mission, as we are allegedly attracted to
things that advance us on our spiritual Journey towards fulfilling our mission.
Have you
ever thought about whose ideas these really are, who wants to achieve
advantages? Even a brief self-analysis will reveal that these ideas are
dictated by the Ego-dominated Mind.
As long
as the glue of identification binds us to the mind on our Journey, these are in
fact our own ideas, and they forge our ambitions. Where these ambitions take us
is something that we have seen at the mind games. Sometimes we get so
hopelessly stuck in the net of the world of shapes and forms that only the
death is able to get us out of there.
But if we
recognize the trap, we may even experience our disappointments on our Journey
in a way that the disappointments effectively dissolve the glue of our
identifications. Positive thinking is therefore not primarily useful for
us and our Ego-dominated mind, but much more so for the awakening of the Consciousness.
In
the course of my development I need practice, experience and insight.
From
early infancy, we have been brought up in the concept that we are not perfect,
we need to develop, we need experience and insight in order to be better and
more perfect.
That social conditioning is the reason why we almost all fall into the trap and we believe
we are able to achieve perfection in the world of shapes and forms. The eternal law of shapes and forms is,
however, that a specific form is born, it flourishes and then dies, to give its
place to the new ones.
There is
no place for eternal perfection in the world of forms and shapes, and we look
for it in vain on our spiritual Journey.
Insight
and pactice are necessary to the final experience that will make us recognize
that perfection is not to be found in the world of the mind, in the world of
forms and shapers, and it cannot be grabbed by our thoughts.
I
am able to convert my negative emotions and thoughts into positive ones.
The technique
of positive thinking is not able to change you. All that happens is that it
suppresses the negative dimensions of your personality.
Positive
thinking does not mean more than relegating negative ideas, thoughts and
emotions into the unconscious level of our mind. Once ideas disturbing us or
others have been suppressed, we condition our conscious mind with positive
thoughts.
Osho asserts
that the problem with this solution is that our unconscious mind is more
powerful, nine times larger than the conscious one. As soon as we relegate an
idea down there, it will be nine times more powerful than it used to be.
It will not be there in the old way, but it will find new manifestations.
If you
suppress some negative idea or emotion, just because you find irritating, even
you yourself may be aware that it is only self-deception.
Deep inside you the suppressed idea of emotion continues to work, and at the
conscious level of your mind you are trying to make it look nicer. On the
surface you may smile, but this smile is only skin deep.
If you
are able to exceed that situation, reaching beyond the Mind, you will always be
able to look at the process as an external observer, and realize that positive
thinking levies heavy the burdens of suppressed, internal tensions on your
personality. These suppressed tensions may burst out like a volcanic eruption
one day.
I
am capable of loving myself, even with my weaknesses and faults.
This love
is perhaps not the unselfish love of accepting ourselves; it largely depends
upon the efficiency of the implementation of the first five points. If I
am successul in positive thinking, if I am able to use this method successfully
in my life, I have every reason to love myself. If I am unsuccessful, the love
of myself may easily turn into disappointment and despair.
The
latter has, we must realize, a much greater likelihood than reaching altitudess
never experienced before as a result of positive thinking. We may
conquer one peak or two, but as we have discussed previously, in the world of
shapes and forms not success but change is the permanent tendency.
Consciousness Without Choice
As a
conclusion we may say that positive thinking may render a good service to us,
though not in the way we originally expected.
The
impossibility of implementing positive thinking in the world of forms and
shapes and the failures rooted in it may shatter or quiet the Ego-dominated Mind,
and open up the way to the re-emergence of a new mental ability.
On our spiritual Journey, we must acquire a new Consciousness which is neither positive, nor
negative. That Consciousness, the
Witness, the Spectator without having to choose. It is the Pure
Consciousness, which will completely re-shape your entire life.
You will
astounded to see that if you stay as a Witness in the world of shapes and
forms, in the Consciousness without having to choose, as a Spectator, how
intensively will something appear in your soul. Something that points beyond
both positive and negative, something higher than both.
~From the book: Frank M. Wanderer: The Revolution of Consciousness: Deconditioning the Programmed Mind
(C) Frank M. Wanderer, 2013-2017
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