Irza Fidah's Key Ideas from Don't Believe Everything You Think
by Joseph Nguyen

The root cause of suffering is our own thinking. In short, the moment we stop thinking is when our happiness begins.

Thinking is the root cause of all our psychological suffering.

We can only ever feel negative emotions when we are thinking. Some of the negative emotions can be helpful. These negative emotions are only helpful to us in terms of survival.

Our natural state of being is joy, love, ecstasy, freedom, and gratitude.

At its fundamental level, the human experience is created by these three principles:

1. Universal mind: the intelligence behind all living things.
2. Universal consciousness: the collective consciousness of all things.
3. Universal thought: the raw material of the universe from which we can create from.

The most interesting and almost paradoxical thing about stopping our thinking is that we don’t have to do anything to minimize it other than to be aware of it.

“Anxiety is thought without control. Flow is control without thought.”

–James Clear.

Here is the definition from the Shotokan Times: Mushin is achieved when (the) mind is free of random thoughts, free of anger, free of fear, and particularly free of ego.

There are two sources of goals: goals created out of inspiration and goals created out of desperation.

Your intuition will always lead you to where you need to go and what you should do at any moment in time.