Last Updated on January 30, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
A Kundalini Yoga teacher once said to a student who was a scientist «scientists are terrible, they are always thinking». The scientist was irritated and hurt. But how can I stop thinking, he thought. Later on he met an Indian guy who said to him something similar: «you look very lucky, but you are thinking too much». Again someone came to the same conclusion about him. That gave him something to think about. What can I do to solve this problem? The scientist did not know an answer. And did not René Descartes say, «I think therefore I am»:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_ergo_sum
René Descartes concluded from the fact that he was thinking that he exists. But the Kundalini Yoga student and scientist could not convince his Yoga teacher with René Descartes statement that thinking is something positive.
The Kundalini Yoga teacher recommended him the book “Kundalini Yoga” by Satya Singh:
Satya Singh is born in 1949 in the Netherlands, is a qualified sociologist, professional astrologer and was a student of Yogi Bhajan.
In the Kundalini Yoga Book Satya Singh writes «I do not think, therefore I am».
Does not Satya Singh make a fool out of himself with this sentence? Is Satyas sentence accepted by philosophers? But also René Decartes “Cogito ergo sum” is controversial among philosophers. And which social scientist takes a qualified sociologist serious who is at the same time professional astrologer?
Natural science rejects any form of astrology because of its “indisputable unscientific nature”. In 1975, the American magazine The Humanist published a statement entitled Objections to Astrology. It opened with the following: “We, the signatories – astronomers, astrophysicists and scientists from other disciplines – would like to warn the public against untested trust in the predictions and advice that astrologers make and give privately and publicly. Anyone who wants to believe in astrology should remember that there is no scientific basis for its teachings.” The declaration was signed by 186 scientists, including 18 Nobel Prize winners.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrologie
Satya Singh further writes basically, we are not our thoughts, we have thoughts. This has also been explained by Soygal Rhinpoche:
Sometimes we have also no thoughts. But for the scientist and Kundalini Yoga student who was thinking too much it was difficult to come into a thoughtless state. He thought, «I do not think, therefore I am»? Are people who do not think not sometimes fools, and can we conclude from this «I do not think, therefore I am a fool»? Since we sometimes hear people say “I did not think anythink and made a fool out of myself”.
But how can we stop thinking? The scientist did not find an answer in the Kundalini Yoga Book of Satya Singh. But he found an answer in:
«Brain Research and Meditation», a dialogue between brain researcher Wolf Singer and Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk with a PhD. In cellular genetics:
And in other books of Matthieu Ricard.