Hello forumers i hope you are all happy and having a great day. I recently ordered a buddha poster it arrived. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” So this is one of the teaching of buddha i agree when we focus and think about good stuff it becomes possible. I have several degree of OCD and i sometimes get really negative irrelevant thoughts. I just watch let them go and not focus on them but focus the positive ones... So If they are what i become i am the worst person in this world but i try to help listen others share positive vibes smile show care and LOVE. So this is true what buddha said but i believe NOT every thoughts defines us help me please thanks..
Certainly, the philosophers of the past depend upon the translators of the present. But that begs the question whether even great philosophers like Buddha are what they thought, or taught. Even on the most agreed upon translations, interpretation then occludes rather than revealing meaning. If words had dimension then they must be redimensionalized by gathering many layers of meanings and many translations. My point is that I don't recall, "we are what we think" as being something Buddha said. 'Thought' is not even a link in the chain of dependent origination. The quote is something someone thought Buddha said. So it is what that person thought of thought, and what he thought of Buddha. When it comes to cliches like these, the person who abreviated the philosophy to become some blasse and trite quote, really was saying that that philosopher is just blasse and trite. That quote might be from A Buddha, such as one from the Cintamani school, but The Buddha probably didn't say that.
This is true but thoughts are fleeting and is attached to the ego's sense of self and therefore no, every thought in our mind does not define us. Keep up the positive attitude. Humble yourself. Meditate. Remember the eightfold path! Don't worry!
according to some, we may be little more then the process itself of thinking it. i take a slightly different perspective, with the understanding there is no objective way of proving it. that is that our awareness forms a completely nonphysical structure, defined not be memory but by preferences, which may span several, or even many, lifetimes, along with, whatever, if anything, takes place between those physical lifetimes. when people use the term "soul", this is what i construe it as referring to.
But this is metaphysics what you are thinking about for the very "Thinking". To consider the values of good (and right) thinking one must also understand His Being in yourself. That soul is seriously perceived per Being as the rest of the world and fellow humans there. To be right thinking, one must also be understanding per being a "human", doing the thoughts independent of worldly activity, being over one's thoughts over ....ooooh, just Thinking. Thus it is asked: did we learn of Morality?
I think the brain is the most powerful organ in the human body, and if you program it one way, like a computer, the rest will follow.... Sometimes, it is hard to chase away the negativity, though...easier said than done sometimes....
The brain programs the brain? How you think will not follow; I'd say how they tell you you think may. If you trust them.
i believe we live in a universe that is far more diverse, then even all of us working in consort, could ever imagine up that level of its diversity that exists. that is also why i don't see it as likely the work of any single awareness, no matter how wise or powerful. rather, even all of us together, even all sapient life in the universe, even all merely sentient life in the universe, all of that, is still, only the tineyest fraction of that diversity i see all around me, everywhere i look, even in a single cubic inch of ordinary garden soil.
