Thoughts on “All Is Mind”
Q: The world and the cosmos is my brain yo! (I believe).
A: Yes all is mind. Or you could say there is no mind, only the world. No inside, no outside. The line is just more empty sensations.
Q: Lately it feels like I don't know where thoughts start and begin. It's like all residual sounds are equal.
A: Thoughts don’t start anywhere, they don’t unfold anywhere, and they don’t end anywhere.
Thoughts are empty. Non-arising and non-passing. In other words, they transcend existence and non-existence. Neither existing nor not existing. There but not there.
Think of empty, boundless space (context), and thoughts (form/content) as arising and vanishing within the _________. But that’s just the mid-way stage. Ultimately content and context merge as One. If context is empty so is content. All transient…all arise only depending on condition…
Q: Is thought collective? Is there actually willful thinking going on? Do they belong to anyone? If the states of consciousness from ego to the more expansive states are in fact the same as lucid-waking dreaming. Who can own them?
A: Yes, there is no “individual mind” per se that arises and resides in your head because there is no “you” and no “head” from the matter of first person experience.
So all thoughts could be perceived as transient objects that are no different from material objects that exist “out there”. And since there is no center, no perceiver, no inside and outside, all thoughts are collective. UG calls it “world mind”.
Due to conditioning, we take x and y thoughts to be “mine” and “yours”, but ultimately this is an illusion created by the ego.
Thoughts come and go exactly the same way, through the same Flow as birds flying by, the wind blowing, and cars driving by, as the whole world, including “thoughts” are all sensations spontaneously happening by themselves without any doers. Like putting on a VR goggle, all are representations. You don’t know what you’re perceiving at all other than stories and concepts created by the self, Buddhists call this “suchness”, or emptiness of perception.