REALIZE THAT NO IDEA IS YOUR OWN; THEY CALL COME TO YOU FROM OUTSIDE

Let us break the above statement into parts and analyze is bit by bit.

The statement talks about analyzing.

That idea is not our own, it always come from outside us. They all actually.

 

Idea - what is it ?

Idea is a thought, nothing else. Thought about something completely new, or novel way to do things which are already there. It can be reduced to a mere thought.

 

It is not our own and it always comes from outside. What does it mean that it comes from outside. Has anyone thrown the thought from outside our consciousness and consciousness has caught it. If anything be outside the consciousness then it is not reality / absolute and also it can then not be known.

 

Hence the thought must have come from us, consciousness alone, as nothing can be outside consciousness. However the core here is not about what constitute inside and outside us but rather where do the thoughts come from and are they under our conscious control ?

 

We can easily verify that we don’t generate thought as in will the thought, but thought comes to us and we grab / identify with it via thinking. Thus we are presented with a thought without any will of our own.

 

Every thought is like this and this is not an exception; and we also know that all actions are preceded by thought; and since thought is not under our control hence any action is also not under our control. Thus there exists no free will.

 

Will exists only for consciousness and consciousness alone. We are mere instruments of her.