Article 1: Thinking Folly by Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle,the writer of the article "Thinking Folly"

Now let’s get into business. The first article that I’m going to share my though with you is entitled “Thinking Folly” by a talented writer named Eckhart Tolle. The title itself made me thinking on how the content will be. Remarkably Eckhart Tolle managed to steal my attention with his twisted theory about well….thinking of course. He wrote that the thinker, which he meant all of us humans live in a separate world and apparently not as friendly as we may assume because our thinking is filled with insanely complex world of continuous conflict and problems like an infinite twilight zone and represent the ever increasing fragmentation of the mind. I would say that Tolle is right because as a thinker, making a decision and being indecisive is always a part of our mind venturing into the unknown. 

Seriously, what are you thinking?

Conflict and problem infinitely cycles into our daily life create an illusion of separateness that makes us thinker felt not believing into reality although life is happening right in front of us. Now you know how otaku (Japanese title for nerds and geeks), atheist, communism and so on exist. 

So what is your brain-mover?

Our mind is a powerful tool if used wisely and a disease if in the wrong hand. Tolle also emphasize another interesting theory that thinking is a disease. How? Believe me when I say that we are not the one who control our mind as it is a completely on the opposite. Don’t believe me? Tell me how many times you get distracted on what you suppose to do, as an example, let say you’re on your laptop and decide to drink a while and open your fridge and found nothing but keep repeating the same action in hoping of there is something in the fridge. With a wandering but aimless thinking we back to our laptop without the water but then again a couple of minutes we do the same exact action again like being in hypnosis. That’s our brain and that is us it controls. Tolle also quote that our mind is a survival machine that attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing and analyzing information but lack of creativity. 

Creative is said to come in a still mind and can be achieve in a quiet state of mind. So if you’re a heavy thinker, STOP it because you’re losing all your creativity! Though said, the mind carries a freedom that one can’t stop and having realized you are not on your on shadow make you wake up from the deep mind slumber.