I'm sorry, so I exist!

We think, then we exist! Okay, but how much of that thinking is really ours? If Descartes were tantric, most likely his famous phrase would be "I'm sorry, therefore I am". Far be it from me to want to contradict the father of mathematics, but I want to bring a reflection here.

Perhaps you have already read another famous quote, this one by Jim Rohn, "You are the average of the 5 people you live with". Not that I agree 100% with him, but it is true that we are influenced, not only by those we live with the most, but also by the entire social environment in which we are inserted. How much of our thinking would not be influenced by friends, teachers, movies, books, Instagram and YouTube channels?

Whether we like it or not, we are highly influential. Daily, we are bombarded with ideologies, "truths", ways of living, ideals, dreams, etc. And all of this can shape the way we think and act.

Thinking is an action of the mind. And yes, whoever thinks exists, but is that existence and this thinking really ours? Many of our opinions are nothing more than influences acquired from those we admire, and not necessarily from experiences we have had in practice.

One of the things I have learned from tantra is the "think with the heart". This is difficult to understand, and even more difficult to put into practice, as our entire culture is geared towards the mental, and in the mental, we are highly influential. When following "the voice from within", we started to give more value to EXPERIENCE than for influence, and our conclusions become more authentic, more ours, coming from the practical experimentation.

To follow your heart is to meet your truth, to express yourself the way you really are. Have you noticed the clothes you wear, the places you go, the work you do, the relationship you have? Is this really what you want for your life? Or is following the experience "successful" from someone else?

Tantra teaches us the way of love, from the heart, and this happens basically by stimulating the feeling. Since we are little our feeling is anesthetized, we are instructed not to value feeling. Why is society sick, unhappy and with so many mental disorders?

I excuse Descartes, but the "I'm sorry, therefore I am" it makes a lot more sense to me, where thinking comes as a reflection of the heart, and opinions are formed by experience itself, and not by the influence of the environment. That is what it is, it is being you, living your life. I feel, then think, soon I exist!