76. Thinking and Acting

We think, we act, we play, we discuss, we plan, and go about our daily work as if, we are in control of ‘intelligence’. These words hide the intelligence’s working, as if, makes feel, it is our personal limited entity’s intelligence at work.

Thinking is an activity. Talking, planning, playing, etc are activities. Activity of the ‘form’ is a seeming ‘action’ or acting or expression. This includes, movements of body, (including mouth and vocal cords,  for the talking part ) , as if, action/expression is taking place. However, thinking or planning ( which again is also thinking) seems prior to action. Thinking however, is an activity in itself or an action / expression, where the movement is, formless in nature and is a direct ‘creation’ by consciousness or life itself. All movements and acting or actions are of ‘life’ itself, but the movement of forms, seems limited to form, as if, life is also limited to that form only, which is not the case in reality. In reality, there is ‘only life’ appearing as forms and formless, as we speak of objects and thoughts.

We sometimes say, think before you speak or before you act, so as to avoid self embarrassment or damage to others, to an extent, unintended.  We can tell somebody, very close, “why did you rob my money” and he may hang himself in guilt, and we may add another guilt to ourself, for ‘effecting’ such a result on that person, more far than our expectation, that seems to make us own such guilt. Here it seems, we could have, by some chance, saved the ‘happening’ if we could think correctly the consequences, prior to speech or at the right time, so as to say.

It may seem, thinking and speaking is an art to be mastered. But, thinking is an activity and speaking or acting out -is an also an activity. So think before you speak, becomes ‘act before you act’. Here the problem is that, the ‘you’ that needs to make such a ‘doing’ possible is ‘objectively ’ absent’. The doer of all deeds or activities is ‘life’ itself. Call it consciousness, life force or God or what ever. Even though it seems a separate entity, that is doing so ( thinking and speaking or acting). It is life force animating the form that is doing it. The fan may seem to rotate, but the electricity is the rotator to the form. The form is just an image to depict the expression like a painting of the painter. The painting doesn’t express anything. Life expresses itself as the painting, the painter, the forms etc.

Form is an expression of life. The expression of the form is the expression of life ‘as’ form. Thoughts and knowings are the expressions of life as formless forms, or unseen forms. The totally of all  expressions of ‘Life’ is the Universe that is known ( to life itself as knowing).

So, it is ‘life’ expressing as thoughts seemingly to forms, and ‘life’ animating forms, as if, an effect of thought.  And so All there is –is life, as forms and formless  (thought, emotions, etc) being the totality as this waking state knowing and dream state knowing, expressing itself as a world of known objects.

So next time when thinking happens and speaking happens, just know that it is all happening, with no-one separate to be in charge of happenings, other than happening itself, unfolding that way in the knowing of it.