The materialist says, “It is only a by-product, a side effect, a shadow phenomenon” - just as you walk in the sun, a shadow follows you. It is, and yet it cannot be measured hence it is an epiphenomenon. So thought is not matter because it cannot be measured. Matter means measure - that which can be measured is matter. That’s why the materialists cannot accept them. Thoughts have no weight, they are weightless they can’t be measured, they are immeasurable. After watching your breathing, it will be easy to watch your thinking directly, because breathing is a little gross. Breathing brings great insight and when you are aware of breathing, the whole thought process simply comes to a stop - and great stillness arises.

You can just bring your consciousness to it.īuddha became enlightened through this simple method. And breathing is such a simple process: you need not do it, it is already happening. Your whole consciousness becomes focused on breathing. In unawareness, both can continue: you can go on breathing and you can go on thinking.īut if you become aware, either you can think or you can breathe and when you breathe with awareness, thinking disappears. Breathing and thinking are such processes that only one can exist in you – in awareness. Either you can think or you can watch your breathing. And it is of great help because if you watch your breathing, thinking stops.

The breath goes in, watch the breath goes out, watch. And you can bring that quality to small things and that is helpful. Do whatsoever you are doing, but bring the quality of consciousness to your actions - there is no other method. “People go on doing things almost in a sleep.

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