Reaction and Thought

 The reaction is born out of action, but action is not born out of reaction. All the reactions are a product of thought, so essentially thought is never an action, but only a reaction. If we look at this closely, thought is never really of the present moment it is always a reaction born out of the past, every single thought, the most glorious to the pettiest one, is essentially a stored reaction to an action that we see. One reaction gives way to another reaction and this swirling of thoughts go on, through the dissection of the previous thought by the current thought and this goes on as long as we try to dissect each thought and try to put an end to it, which never seems possible.

 The interesting point from the action to this reaction formation happens in micro or nanoseconds each, but if we can increase the interval from the time we see a thing and our reaction to it through thought, by observing the reaction forming and dissecting the mechanism of the thought without interfering in the observation, it becomes clear that the reaction mechanism of thought automatically slows down to a greater extent, as we can feel while writing this. The more attentive our observation over ourselves, without interference and any form of effort, the more the stillness of mind.

 But when we try to put an end to thought by dissecting it and try to fix one thought with another, it only gives rise to more problems and not any solution, also giving rise to superstition after superstition, since trying to put an end to the thought-through effort is rooted in fear. This phenomenon most of us could have observed while watching a match or a race, for the team we support, we tend to be more fearful and cautious that the team we support should win, for example, CSK. What this reaction mechanism of thought does is that it forms superstition after superstition each second, never allowing us to watch clearly and peacefully by completely paralyzing our mind.

However, there is an easy way that needs no dissection, absolutely no effort, but only constant attention through observation without any interference or obstruction to the movement of thought, eventually slowing down the reaction mechanism and making us watch everything clearly and peacefully, ultimately leading to absolute stillness of mind. The only interesting thing to note here is that this attention through observation may last for a few seconds or few minutes or few hours or few days, the moment when we try to sustain the attention through effort again, it becomes a product of the reaction mechanism and thought, once we are aware of this fact also it becomes very clear. Thank You!