This month in the Joy of Living program I'm working with thoughts. I'm glad I've taken the previous two months to work on sound and objects, because at their most basic level thoughts really are sound and objects internalized.
Not that I seem to be able to remember this in meditation. I'm constantly drawn into the content of my thoughts. And the content of my thoughts are usually problems.
Thought is a technology. We developed it to solve problems, to create shared memory. Eventually we became ennamoured with the beauty of thought made manifest, and that became art. Thought is mostly about problem solving and if we let it run on its own without slowing it down, checking it, letting it rest, we are in constant problem solving mode. We'll find problems where they don't even really exists.
Meditation slows this down so that we can shift our brain outside of problem solving mode for a while. So that we can just be. So that we can fulfill our purpose. We're not actually here to solve problems. We're here to witness and feel and experience this beautiful world, and to love each other and make life an experience full of awe and wonder.
So, for the next few weeks I want to be like the father of information theory, and seminal cryptologist, Claude Shannon, and act as though the meaning of the content is irrelevant. I'm going to listen to the sound of my thoughts, I'm going to watch the images, and feel the sensations. Just follow along.
