I have an habit of immediately recording some interesting
articles, especially the interesting paragraphs. I do not remember from where I
got this one – but I wanted to share it with you. So please read on…

Thinking is Association

FREUD says: all your thinking is association. If you see a dog in
the street, you start thinking about all the dogs you have seen from childhood.
Then you remember your childhood, you remember a teacher when you were a child.
There is no logical connection. When you start verbalising you miss reality.
Every day the sun rises; every day the sun sets; every day something new
happens. To you it’s one more Friday, one more Saturday, another Sunday. The
moment you label it as Friday, you think you know everything about that day.
You just take it for granted. Because you take people for granted you don’t
enjoy your relationships. You judge people first and collect arguments to
support your judgment.

 You can never step into the same river twice, because by that time it
has moved. People also move, they change, they are not the same as who you met
before. By the time you meet them again your husband/wife has changed;
something is added to them; either intelligence or foolishness. But you don’t
agree. You hold on to the same mental setup.

Sushruta wrote 5,000 years ago. He talks about open heart surgeries and
transplants. He was a great enlightened Master. He said: every six months your
liver replaces itself completely. Not even one part is same. Once in 21 days
your intestine replaces itself. Modern day physiologists agree. Every cell is
replaced continuously.
 
Sushruta says: your mental structure plays a major role when these changes take
place. A disciple asks him: why do we carry diseases over a number of years?
Why does the new liver carry the same disease? Sushruta replies: you don’t
believe you have changed, that’s why. You carry the same mental frame despite
body change. That mental frame retains the disease. You don’t let go of that
frame, you don’t let go of that disease. You don’t let go of your samskara.
Samskara is the powerful mental root that drags you to travel the same. path.

 Like Pavlov’s dogs which came running and salivated even when no food was
served but the bell was rung, whenever you remember that past situation or
person you react the same way, you move in the same rut. In the morning you
worry about office, by evening you worry about your wife and children,
unconsciously, without reason. The mood remains low even if you do not realise
why. You do not live based on intelligence, you live based on information.

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