How are you learning to construct your thought processes….?

Question

so that you become less and less likely to give attention to false ideas?

Answer 1

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/um/um05.htm

Answer 2

My Friend,

Our thought processes are part of the problem, so why give more attention to it? Most of our thoughts come from the ego, who gives us all these beliefs about who we are? Who would we be with out our thoughts? Every thought the ego has is a false thought, so why bother with it?

However, to answer your question, a good source for mind training is 'A Course In Miracles.' I really love the material.

To be honest it took me three (3) years to complete the text and work book, but that was because of how indoctrinated I was. At first I hated the material, but now, I love it. So, while at first I hated it, for some reason I could not stop going back to it. Every since then, I have tried to go through it every year. If you want to learn how to construct your thought processes, give it a try.

sending love,

Answer 3

I started life being brought up in a highly academic family with both parents holding a number of post-graduate qualifications, being teachers and treating ongoing study as a hobby. I undertook my first Diploma course whilst still in Elementary School, on St John's Gospel, and became an atheist that same year (I was 12). I was exposed to de Bono's CoRT Thinking when it was released in Australia and studied it at what Americans would call Junior High School. My first undergraduate degree was a major in Philosophy and English Literature with minors in Linguistics and Poitics. My second undergraduate degree was in Fine Art. I also have post graduate qualifications in Social Psychology. I work as an educator and historian currently, but I've done many different jobs.

My home is decorated in early modern book and cd. I have over 4000 books, about 1500 of them being history, philosophy, comparative religion, anthrolpology, psychology, fine art and sociology texts. I spend about 4 hours a day researching a range of subjects including movements in contemporary music, sustainable living, ethics, archeology, anthropology, educational philosophy, cybernetics, technology and dozens of other fields on the internet. I travel. I talk to people. I am a cynic (in the classic sense of the word). I question everything. For my mid-life crisis I plan to blow wads of cash on another degree or a PhD rather than a sports car.

Basically, I never stop absorbing data and thinking. Learning is the process that shall cease only when I am dead.

Answer 4

Hi James,
What a complicated one!
I think that mentally I construct a list of priorities and I try to focus on these. I spend most time on the most important subjects/information and will 'consider' possibilities but if they seem false or artificial, I will dismiss them or leave it to someone else to research more into the subject. Then if they come up with something different I will give it more attention. I am serious about my interests/work and I give whatever I am doing at the time my full focus. Or at least I try to. Sometimes my mind goes off on a tangent but if I’m aware of time ticking by as I work to deadlines, I quickly pull it back on track.
Polly

Answer 5

I attempt to see connections, motivations, little truths unspoken that hint at the nature of a person's utterances. Also I pause before acting on my own more outrageous ideas until I have reflected and leafed through my own list of motivations. A "false idea" is simply an incomplete or unconsidered concept that clashes with our own mind's framing of the universe. I try to give myself time and space to frame shift in order to understand the idea and why I believe it to be false. This uncovers hidden truths. Of course I rather suck at doing this; I get it wrong a lot. But I don't claim to be all-knowing or even very enlightened--just open-minded. And I'm often lazy, and that process takes lots of work--my shortcut is the simple statement "everything is true." Then I don't have to think about whether it is true or false, just how it is likely to affect me and others.

Answer 6

You're asking "How do you gain wisdom..?"

Our Consciousness guides our thoughts and our thoughts guide our actions. In order to choose wise actions then, it is necessary to be able to discern wisdom from foolishness, to thus be wise, we must understand our Consciousness and the pitfalls therein.

The Consciousness is a minefield of various "selves", conditions, preconceptions, misconceptions and many other defilements which can trap us into misguided choices. One such trap is our perception that our experiences and our reality are permanent...let me give a simple example...a flower...

We see a beautiful flower, acknowledge its beauty in the moment of recognition, generally saying..."Oh, what a beautiful flower.." Do we not..?

A week later we see the same flower yet it has faded, we often say.."Oh, how sad, the flower has faded.." Is this not so...?

Our consciousness has placed a condition on the flower's beauty..the condition..? Permanence. Yet our own eyes have seen Impermanence. Not only this, we have made a decision about the faded flower based on our false perception. We have decided that the sight of the faded flower is sad.

The flower is supposed to fade, this is it's true nature. Why decide that a natural phenomenon is sad..? Thus the preconceived condition of permanence in the Consciousness can and often does cause us to make Unwise decisions, and in fact can cause suffering. We suffered a sad sight of the flower because we decided it was so.

There are many such conditions and preconceptions. "Self" is another. There are many "selves" within the Consciousness, each different from the others and each insatiably selfish. This selfishness can cause Unwise actions.

Our view of our reality is entirely via our perceptions. In order to become wiser, we must therefore control our Perceptions. All these Perceptions are learned..they can be Unlearned.

A Buddhist View...

Answer 7

By constructing my own thought processes, and applying them, thereby not leaving myself open to false ideas.

By not being hung-up on any idea. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. IT gets the toss.



By being a student in the mind and heart. There is something deeper than the physical aspects of you that craves a full-feeling life. Your life should appear exactly as you wish it to be. Answering that deeper force.

Nothing should stop in your tracks faster than knowing you just became a carbon unit to someone elses force. simply put, it depletes you.



REally gets to people though when you won't stand with them and their cause. It is necessary, to not be sucked in by this.

Looking at things objectively, not with emotion

Just because it has been proven, doesn't make it true (Man, does this world like to mess with us with it's "proof").

Well known facts, could be pulled apart as well.

Exercise always, viewing things differently. What does that do to ideas that are actually not workable?

Things happening as they will, does not mean standing in agreement. It doesn't mean to struggle with it. But understanding fully the power of agreement. I will not add it to what is false, no matter how much the world implies that it is correct and I am wrong. We energetically know this and can be made to accept anything by process of exposure to it.

I will simply; Go to Ground..Carry on, right under the radar...This world can be influenced by subtleties. If one life can be...

To Life Eternal...

Answer 8

I'd call them heart-processes, really. Whenever I have a thought, or experience a new idea, I try it out within my heart. If it's right, it makes me feel warm inside, if it's wrong, it just feels empty.

I try to believe everything. Then the false ideas just slide away, and the right ones become firm convictions. I don't really worry about whether an idea is right or wrong. My heart tells me when something is true, and then I weave that thought into the fabric of my beliefs.

Answer 9

Human beings have been struggling since time immemorial,to achieve peace,happiness,and progress.These have been their aims in life ever since they learnt how to think or in other words to construct thought processes in order to get less and less likely to give attention to false ideas.Each one of us has a different interpretation of, and approach to, these triple aims of life which may not be in harmony with those of the next person.Let us critically examine the above mentioned aims of life which are supposed to bring peace,happiness, and progress, but instead, burden us false ideas such as agitation,misery,and regression. In the pursuit of these aims we rely upon our sense organs(eyes,ears,noise,tongue and skin) for guidance.Pursuit of thoughts generated by sense organs is believed to bring happiness, and this happiness is supposed to be the forerunner of peace and progress.In reality the sense organs are meant for perception of the phenomenal world and we erroneously use them for achieving peace and plenty. Acceptance of false ideas cannot confer mastery over senses.This basic flaw in our approach is responsible for our distress condition. Accordingly,if we keep in mind concept of peace,happiness and progress and by this way we learn to construct your thought processes then you become less and less likely to give attention to false ideas.

Answer 10

This is a question that deserves more investigating.

To conceive that there is a path to fortifying the sound of the truth to ones ears, without diffidence to religious affiliation...

I knew a James once. Most intriguing gent. An explainable enigma.

Answer 11

divine intervention and guidance. I trust that it is a private line that can't be bugged,blogged, distorted, or messed with. Direct feed between my mind and the truth. I've been asking for 57 years and listening better with every question