A man was sitting on his porch rocking back and forth. He seemed to be having a long discussion with himself. Every once in a while he broke into loud laughter. At other times he shouted “Phooey!” in disgust.
A policeman passing by stopped to watch the man and asked him what was going on. “I'm telling myself jokes,” the man told him. “And if I say so myself, most of them are very funny. “
“Then why do you keep saying 'phooey'?” the policeman asked.
“I only say that when I've heard them before.”
That's what you are doing, that's what everyone is doing. All the so-called original thinking is just nonsense. Thinking is never original, thought is always borrowed. It comes from the outside, no thought is yours.
But people start fighting, because they say, “I have to fight for my thought, for my ideology, for my religion, for my philosophy.” The Christian fights, the communist fights, the Hindu fights – for what? They have been persuaded to believe that “This thinking is yours, this philosophy is yours.”
No thinking is yours and no ideology is yours. You have been deceived – but you can remain in this deception because you are unconscious.