The Trap Of Thinking

Thinking refers to having thoughts, including the act of forming ideas and engaging in contemplation.
When one's thoughts are filled with harmful ideas, selfishness, self-centeredness, or self-protection,
many mistakes are already made.
However, if the thoughts are positive, selfless, egoless, and devoid of self-protection, entirely dedicated to others,
then no mistakes occur.
However, human thoughts often revolve around personal perspectives—thinking, perceiving, and judging from one's own standpoint.
It's truly difficult to let go of the illusion of "I"—my opinions, attachments, personal feelings, likes, and dislikes.
Within this pattern, we have already created much karma.
Good deeds and bad deeds are both karma, a form of vibration.
Therefore, avoiding thinking, generating thoughts, and contemplating is advised. Instead, replace thoughts and mental activity with reciting the Buddha's name.
Even positive thoughts can inevitably carry traces of self, making them selfish and harmful. Therefore, one must be extremely cautious to avoid falling into the traps of karma.
People are accustomed to thinking, and these thoughts often carry a sense of self and self-protection, which can easily expand without limit.
Creating products, technological innovations, and online game strategies arise from thoughts.
Similarly, activities such as memorising, contemplating, learning, solving problems, and carrying out tasks—all when engaging with knowledge—are processes shaped by thinking.
Human beings are deeply connected to their thoughts, and thoughts generate karma. The beings of Jambudvipa generate karma and wrongdoing with every thought or intention that arises.
Good and evil thoughts, wandering thoughts, self-centeredness, selfishness, ego, distinctions of rights and wrongs, you and me, superior and inferior – all these take shape through thoughts.
People may not realise that countless good and bad karma are created through thoughts.
People spend their entire lives confined by thoughts, unaware that letting go of them could transform their lives entirely.
In practice, one must avoid thinking, as thinking leads to contemplation.
Instead, strive to continuously recite the Buddha's name throughout the day, replacing thoughts and mental activity.
Particularly, thoughts about the body, such as the five aggregates of form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness, bring endless suffering.
Let us recite the name of Namo Amituofo!
It is a simple and effective way to purify and advance in practice.
Namo Amituofo