Levi Türk

I'd like to show you a way of identifying yourself that you probably never thought about. Have you ever meditated? The coolest thing about 'meditation' is that you start to realize that you no longer have to identify with the stream of thoughts that show up in your head. Meditation's lesson: you are not your thoughts. What are you then? You are the thing that chooses which thought to engage with. You are the master of your conscious processes. You are this very tiny part of your brain that is processing a very specific thought right now. Everytime you are awake, you are the arbiter of what enters your attention. You are not whatever desire has manifested in you because you saw the photo of a tasty burger or a half naked woman! You are not the simulated discussion you are having with your sibling inside your head. You are not your profession! You are the light inside a human's body who decides whether or not to engage with a thought or stimulus ...

'I should order my room.' Who says that? Is that you?  Your consciousness? Your mom? Your flatmate? The 'boss' inside you? I have a theory. You have two guys living inside you. One is the Master and the other is the SLAVE. I wouldn't order my room unless the Master really convinces me to. I don't like to go shopping. I don't like to wake up early. I don't like to change the light bulb. Or do I? After all it's not me, who does it. It's the guy who controls my body, its the SLAVE who does whatever I ask him. I actually rather prefer to have my room ordered and my light bulb changed. I am sometimes pretty pissed off by the lazy SLAVE who refuses to do whatever I ask him. I mean I get him social status, I feed him, I get him to cool places, I get him dates, for God's sake! My SLAVE should be way more obedient to me. He depends on me not ME on him. My fragile, lazy, addicted, subcortical slave shall serve M...