Mind's eye

The fifth article is “Thinking Folly” by Eckhart Tolle.  It is such an intriguing exposition as it made me notice something that happens around us.  The author himself explained that we as a human being do know how to think but not how to stop thinking! It’s such an interesting fact to actually realize that we are the slave of our mind.  We’ve been control every time we think which we did not even knowing it.  We visualize images, words and labels using our mind and eventually we can imagine the thing itself.  If we are thinking critically, we would usually being silent because we want to concentrate.  But we didn’t realize that we are actually separating ourselves from the reality, which left only us and the mind.  The mind is controlling us and decide the decision, that’s how powerful imagination is.  According to Einstein, “imagination is more important than knowledge”.  From the information, comes the mind’s eye.  We can think outside the box or beyond anything by just imagining it.  That’s the hidden meaning I guess.  But then mind also need to rest just like us.  If we kept thinking, it will lead to nowhere. 

Nevertheless, a thinker lives in a complex world, because he/she needs to against the other minds, collecting data and analyzing it to churn out great ideas.  Bombastic ideas come from a fascinating imagination.  We think folly or logically, still the issue is the imagination.  We are actually being possessed by the mind and it makes us unconscious mentally.  But I believe that creativity beyond the mind is what we need which is the key to be awakened.  It’s hard to think beyond our imagination, that’s why we need to take an initiative to believe on what we see and we imagine what we want.