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Dont Believe Everything You Think Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning End of Suffering

Joseph Nguyen

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1: The Journey to Finding the Root Cause of Suffering

📌 confounded ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:29:17

📌 myriad ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:30:14

📌 incrementally ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:31:41

2: The Root Cause of All Suffering

📌 Thought is not reality; yet it is through thought that our realities are created ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:34:15

📌 Many of us go through the exact same events or are in the same location at the same time yet are having completely different experiences of the world. ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:35:59

📌 because of this, we live through a perception of reality, not in reality itself. Reality is that the event happened, with no meaning, thinking, or interpretation of it ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:38:36

📌 Our feelings do not come from external events, but from our own thinking about the events. Therefore, we can only ever feel what we are thinking. ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:40:01

📌 fuming ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:40:47

📌 is it absolutely true that every single person feels the exact same way about the job they’re working in? ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:42:54

📌 Who would you be without that thought that you hated your job? ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:46:32

📌 The root cause of our suffering is our own thinking. ⏱ 2025-08-02 09:48:04

📌 In short, the moment we stop thinking is when our happiness begins. ⏱ 2025-08-03 10:43:20

4: Thoughts vs. Thinking

📌 Thinking, on the other hand, is the act of thinking about our thoughts. This takes a significant amount of energy, effort, and willpower (which is a finite resource). Thinking is actively engaging with the thoughts in your mind. You don’t have to engage with each thought in your mind, but when you do, that is thinking. ⏱ 2025-08-03 15:37:07

📌 If I ask you a question, you will 100% have a thought that pops into your mind. Thoughts are not inherently bad. Remember that they are the energetic mental raw materials from which we create in the world.

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5: If We Can Only Feel What We're Thinking, Don't We Need to Think Positively to Feel That Way?

📌 we can only ever feel negative emotions when we are thinking ⏱ 2025-08-03 16:06:40

📌 you do not have to have thoughts or think to feel positive emotions. ⏱ 2025-08-03 16:20:07

📌 Our natural state of being IS joy, love, ecstasy, freedom, and gratitude. ⏱ 2025-08-03 16:59:06

📌 Therefore, it’s not WHAT we’re thinking about that is causing us suffering, but THAT we are thinking. ⏱ 2025-08-03 17:07:32

6: How the Human Experience Is Created -The Three Principles

📌 If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.” ― Sydney Banks

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📌 Universal Mind is the Intelligence behind all living things. It is the life force and energy that is in all things. ⏱ 2025-08-03 20:21:09

📌 It is only when we begin thinking (believing the illusion or ego) that we block this flow of Universal Mind and begin to feel separated, frustrated, lonely, angry, resentful, sad, depressed, and fearful. ⏱ 2025-08-06 08:13:30

📌 Universal Consciousness is the collective consciousness of all things. It is what allows us to be aware that we exist and aware of our thoughts. ⏱ 2025-08-06 08:15:24

7: If Thinking Is the Root Cause of Our Suffering, How Do We Stop Thinking?

📌 The most interesting and almost paradoxical thing about stopping our thinking is that we don’t have to do anything to minimize it other than to be aware of it. ⏱ 2025-08-06 11:06:34

📌 This is how our minds also work. If we let our thinking sit without disturbing it by trying to “filter” or “boil” it, the thinking will settle down on its own and our minds will become free from thinking. ⏱ 2025-08-06 11:09:21

📌 The only way to break free from our thinking is to let go and trust that our natural inner wisdom will guide us back to clarity and peace like it always has. ⏱ 2025-08-06 11:12:11

📌 We are ever really one moment away from remembering that we always have that infinite well of clarity, love, joy, peace, and fulfillment. ⏱ 2025-08-06 11:17:27

8: How Can We Possibly Thrive in the World Without Thinking?

📌 In other words, the state of peak performance for humans can be described as the state of non-thinking. It may seem crazy, but we do our best work when we aren’t thinking, and you just proved it with your own experience. ⏱ 2025-08-06 11:26:34

9: If We Stop Thinking, What Do We Do About Our Goals, Dreams & Ambitions?

📌 When we dig a little deeper into these types of goals we set, they are all typically “means goals” and not “end goals”. In other words, the goals we set in this ⏱ 2025-08-06 13:25:07

📌 We feel like we HAVE to do these things instead of WANT to. Goals created from desperation are typically “realistic” and created from analyzing our past and what we think to be “plausible” in the moment. It feels very confining and limiting. ⏱ 2025-08-06 13:25:42

📌 We want to have kids because we want to share the abundance of what we have with them, and it comes from a place of sharing what we have lots of versus trying to get something out of them. ⏱ 2025-08-07 16:20:21

📌 Our goals created in this state are typically means goals, meaning that we want to achieve these goals so that we can do something else afterwards, such as having the goal to quit our job. ⏱ 2025-08-07 17:09:42

📌 This is an important distinction to make, otherwise you’ll spend most of your time debating and stressing yourself out over if this is the right goal for you or not. ⏱ 2025-08-07 17:12:43

📌 We are not creating so that we can feel whole, but we are creating because we feel whole and want to give from that place, not expecting anything from it. ⏱ 2025-08-07 17:21:44

📌 “If I had infinite money, already traveled the world, had no fear, and didn’t receive any recognition for what I do, what would I do or what would I create?” ⏱ 2025-08-08 22:05:11

📌 To a mind without the limits of thinking, anything is possible. ⏱ 2025-08-08 22:10:01

10: Unconditional Love & Creation

📌 This unconditional love doesn’t come from external reasons, but comes from within from the infinite source we all came from. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:37:04

📌 The only thing that gets in the way of this is our own thinking, which separates and cuts us off from that unconditional love. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:37:10

📌 Unconditional creation is always innovative, unique, new, captivating, bold, different, revolutionary in its own way. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:38:33

📌 When we create something for something else, typically we do not enjoy the process of creating, because it is always just a means to an end, never an end in itself. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:42:11

📌 we never actually got what we were looking for ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:43:28

📌 What we’re ultimately looking for are feelings. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:45:20

📌 we keep thinking that the goal or object we want will give us those feelings. This idea is inherently flawed because our feelings can only ever be generated from within us, not from external things. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:45:49

📌 when we create something without conditions or reasons, we actually immediately feel all of the positive feelings we want. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:46:37

📌 Unconditional creation is creating something without it being for another purpose, but purely to create it because we just want to create it. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:47:53

11: What Do You Do Next After Experiencing Peace, Joy, Love & Fulfillment in the Present?

📌 we have just let go of everything we thought we knew in the world. What actually happened was the death of the personal ego. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:55:24

📌 The point is to not try to prevent your thinking from ever entering your mind, but to shorten the time that it takes for you to remember that it is just your thinking that’s causing the negative emotions. ⏱ 2025-08-09 06:58:02

📌 Most people spend the majority of their day in a state of stress (thinking), which consumes enormous amounts of energy. ⏱ 2025-08-09 07:01:11

📌 What we can do in this case is to channel the newfound energy into our goals of inspiration. This is the cure and intervention of preventing this energy from going back into overthinking. ⏱ 2025-08-09 07:01:26

📌 I never understood why spiritual masters and all great leaders have a morning routine until I understood the power of non-thinking and momentum ⏱ 2025-08-09 07:04:40

12: Nothing Is Either Good or Bad

📌 Instead of looking for right or wrong, good or bad in the world, look for truth. Instead of trying to prove we are right and they are wrong, or how they’re better and we’re worse, look for the truth in what’s in front of you. ⏱ 2025-08-09 14:24:10

📌 If you’re confronted with something that may stir up negative emotions, go within yourself to find the source of universal truth deep within your soul. ⏱ 2025-08-09 14:26:12

📌 Negative emotions are an indication of misunderstanding. ⏱ 2025-08-09 14:26:47

13: How Do You Know What to Do Without Thinking?

📌 Most of the time, we already know deep down what to do in any specific situation. This is often referred to as your gut feeling, intuition, or inner wisdom. ⏱ 2025-08-09 14:31:12

📌 It’s guaranteed that our inner GPS will guide us to exactly where we want to go, but what’s not guaranteed is how or which path it will put us on to take us there. ⏱ 2025-08-10 07:47:21

📌 When you do this, you will begin to see miracles occurring in your life that you never could have expected or even dreamed of. ⏱ 2025-08-10 07:49:25

📌 For anything in life, you most likely already know deep down what to do, but are afraid of doing it or don’t believe that you are good enough to do it. ⏱ 2025-08-10 07:50:31

📌 In short, know that you already know and if you don’t know, know that you can know what you need to know. ⏱ 2025-08-10 08:32:11

14: How to Follow Your Intuition

📌 Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ― Steve Jobs

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📌 We can be in a state of nonthinking at any point in time. The only time we can really be in a state of non-thinking is in the present moment. ⏱ 2025-08-10 08:38:52

📌 When you’re following your intuition, you’re completely tapped into something greater than your personal self. You’re in a state of nonthinking (flow) and direct connection with God. In this state, you always know what you need to do without thinking and are guided by Infinite Intelligence. ⏱ 2025-08-10 08:42:54

📌 It is only when we think we know more than God that we run into problems. ⏱ 2025-08-10 08:46:10

📌 When you ask people who are the most abundant, joyful, and successful how they made it, they will usually attribute their success to some sort of higher power or luck ⏱ 2025-08-10 08:47:20

📌 When we realize that we don’t have to control and try to force everything to happen our way, we become free from suffering, pain, and frustration and begin to fall into this state of non-thinking where things just all happen for us instead of to us. ⏱ 2025-08-10 08:48:19

📌 There are millions of small circumstances and events that have to have been meticulously orchestrated for us to be where we are now. To plan that would be impossible and futile, yet here we are. This is the miracle of life. ⏱ 2025-08-10 08:50:08

📌 It is only true if we think we have to figure out the “how” to get what we want in life. Our job is to come up with what we want, not how to get it. The how is really up to the Universe. ⏱ 2025-08-10 08:53:33

📌 Our part is to hold in our minds what we want and get into a state of non-thinking. This enables us to access our Infinite Intelligence (God) so that the answers are revealed to us exactly when we need it ⏱ 2025-08-10 08:56:00

📌 Have you ever had a gut feeling to do something, but you have no logical reasoning as to why, but you did it anyway and amazing things happened afterward? That is your intuition. ⏱ 2025-08-10 09:00:26

📌 Your intuition will almost always go against your logical, rational mind, so be prepared for that. ⏱ 2025-08-10 09:02:44

📌 So why don’t more people listen to their intuition if it always knows what to do and creates abundance whenever it is followed? Fear. ⏱ 2025-08-10 09:14:12

📌 Our thinking will try to predict what might happen based on the past. This is why most people get more of the same of what they have always gotten. ⏱ 2025-08-10 09:16:55

📌 Your personal mind will freak out because you’re stepping into the space of infinite possibilities (the unknown), but if you remember that it is just thinking that is making you feel fear, the fearful thinking will fall away and the courage you need to act on your intuition will naturally surface. ⏱ 2025-08-10 09:19:47

📌 You have to do what you haven’t done in order to get what you don’t have. ⏱ 2025-08-10 09:20:52

15: Creating Space for Miracles

📌 For there to be creation, there must first be space. The same is true for our own minds. ⏱ 2025-08-10 09:55:36

📌 We can’t solve problems by using the same level of consciousness we were at when we created them.” ― Albert Einstein

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📌 Here’s the process for receiving divine downloads when you’re confronted with a challenge: ⏱ 2025-08-10 10:01:48

16: What Happens When You Begin Living in Non-Thinking (Potential Obstacles)

📌 This is far from the truth and it’s just your brain attempting to begin thinking again to create the illusion of “safety” it wants to feel. ⏱ 2025-08-10 10:08:14

📌 This is when faith becomes of the utmost importance — having faith that things will be okay. Know that the Universe is working for you, not against you. That everything happens for a reason and that there are no failures in life, just lessons and opportunities for us to grow. ⏱ 2025-08-10 10:10:33

17: Now What?

📌 There will come a time when you believe everything is finished, that will be the beginning.” ― Louis L’Amor

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📌 Once you see something new from an insight, you cannot unsee it. Once your consciousness expands, it cannot contract again. ⏱ 2025-08-10 10:14:35

📌 Everything you could possibly ever want and need is already inside of you. You are already all of the love, joy, peace, and fulfillment you have ever wanted. ⏱ 2025-08-10 10:25:29

Summary of Non-Thinking

📌 One must also believe that they are part of something much bigger that is the life force that has been taking care of them this whole time (the Universe/God). ⏱ 2025-08-22 13:35:29

📌 Everything we could ever want is on the other side of fear and deep down you know this is the truth. The test we must pass in order to obtain all we desire is fear itself. ⏱ 2025-08-22 13:39:40

📌 If you’re not thinking, you will experience complete peace, love, joy, passion, excitement, inspiration, bliss, and any positive emotion your mind can conceive. You’ll feel like you’re in flow. You’ll lose sense of time, space, and even yourself. You’ll feel “one” with life. This is how you know you are not thinking. ⏱ 2025-08-22 13:45:19

📌 Create an activation ritual or morning routine that helps you get into a state of non-thinking and helps you align with your highest self. ⏱ 2025-08-24 16:26:53

📌 How you start your day will create momentum for how your day will go ⏱ 2025-08-24 16:27:17

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