Thinking Clearly

Listening is something we all practice all the time but seldom against each other.

Listening to one's own mind, its ambitions, its miseries, its desires, its moods, its needs is pretty well practiced to the extent that it intoxicates oneself to a point where he loses awareness of everything around him and becomes a preocuppied prisoner of the bells and whistles of his own thoughts.

Listening to the other is greatly hampered because for a preoccupied mind, for a mind who is accustomed to narrow thinking , or thinking only of a particular pattern, to a mind which is biased, a mind which is of prejudiced or mind who is anxious all the time of a result or an outcome , it embraces and listens only to what it wants to hear and discards everything else.

A mind thus concerned all the time of a futuristic outcome not just grows anxious, but from it the possibility of a creative thinking cannot arise . There is thus no spontaneity without it and thus mind acts and behaves in the same pattern and reacts to ever changing circumstances from a past stance with memories , like a pre programmed mechanied being.

The very act of pursuit whether be a job, or money or lover or fame if it does not give joy, the end result irrespective of success or failure may nto result in happiness. Success is not a moment but it is a continuation of an event and a feeling of looking back from that point to where and how it all began.

A thinking which cannot think about itself lacks intelligence and hence lacks the qualities of self correction, quest, creativity and more of all the mumukshatva for the soul.