Bulldozer00's Blog

Virtually every spiritual teacher that I know has stated that you can’t “think” your way to enlightenment. I consider myself a heavy thinkaholic and because of my personal experience I know that they’re right. I’ve tried to think my way into an enlightened and awakened state so hard, so many times, that the effort has led to the exact opposite result of what I intended. Reading, viewing, and listening to spiritual material can get you to the bus stop of awakening, but it doesn’t guarantee that the bus will arrive on time. It doesn’t even guarantee that the bus will arrive at all.

So, what’s a thinkaholic who wants to discover his/her true root of being supposed to do? You can’t stop thinking because, like flying is innate to birds, thinking is innate to the human condition. Thus, I’m stuck in an endless repetitive cycle of gathering more and more thought-based spiritual knowledge even though I know that it doesn’t work.