Problem Solving with Einstein

A tape set landed in my front seat titled 'How to Think Like Einstein,' by Scott Thorpe. Very cool, approaches things from a seemingly opposite position from my usual, and that's the point in a way. The major theme is that Einstein was a rule breaker. The tapes reiterate over and over that 'rule-ruts' are the culprit to finding sollutions. We come up with a set of rules that make solutions impossible. Issac Newton had a rule in his mountain of work that said that time was a constant. Under that premise, relativity would not be solved no matter how 'hard' you tried. Einstein, a novice, had not been brainwashed by that idea and was free to break that rule making his major accomplishments possible. The tape also explains that with time, Einstein, with more knowlege became less fruitful, due to the accumulation of too many rules, many of them created by himself. We're a rule loving, abiding, people. The brain itself is a generalizer, a ritual maker, a security device designed to make us feel safe and secure. To think like Einstein you must break your rules and constantly find innovative ways to be outside your box.
At this point let me give you a far more profound man's name, J. Krishnamurti. If you don't know him, go get 'First and Last Freedom,' one of his books, will make you aware real quick that you cannot think your way out of the predjudices that you have, fucking period!!!! Everything you have been taught, thousands of lessons a day for years before you could even speak english, or whatever jibberish you expound, have created the 'thinker' that is in your head thinking. Most people think there is a thinker and a thought. The thinker is all you past thoughts, simply projecting on to any situation you come across, an interpretation that jives with something dead and gone. The reason we are not creative, is cause the thinker (the past) colors everything we see now. Only when we look on things with 'passive awareness,' with the desire to understand, do we escape thought entirely and understand things. The moment the mind comes up with a lable, this is a flower for instance, true understanding is gone, and the mind, seeking to be secure has disposed of that which it has come across. The mind is a source of duality, egoic conciousness, subject/object thinking. The second you come up with what something is, you immediately come up with what it is not. Even misunderstood Nirvana, bliss, has it's opposite, not bliss. If you were taught as a child, that Jews suck, and blacks are thieves, no amount of thinking will get you out of it. That predjudiced thinker is adding new knowlege but is still fundamentally a predjudiced thinker. You can control yourself, act appropriately, and choose to 'know' that what you have learned is wrong, but the one making that judgement is still that thinker. Compelling yourself to stop thinking will increase thought, only by fundamentally understanding that the new cannot enter until thought ceases does one become spontaneously free. The mind seeks it's continued survival by finding itself necessary and in conflict, yet all sollutions on the level of mind will be a repetition of the past cause it's store house of knowledge is past information. The mind, the ultimate, most slippery mechanism ever imagined is that which has held humanity at war since it's inception.
Back to Einstein, what's applicable and neat is a number of approaches to escape your personal 'rule-ruts.' He has you for instance, turn on your tv, with the mute on, and arbitrarily write down a list of the people, places, events, and things you see. Then write down how they are perfect sollutions to your problem. This is a way of provoking thought you would not have had yourself, again, the point being, to think in ways you normally would not have thought. Anyway, massive numbers of techniques like that. Many I already use, playing football left handed, writing in my journal left handed, reaching intuitive parts of the mind. Using humor while considering new ideas to allow their installment into the mind without complex adult predjudice from inhibiting consideration. Comming up with sollutions from the point of view of Napoleon, a small child, your grandma? Changing the time frame from one day to 500 years, you get the point. Nevertheless, seeking multiple perspectives from which to view life, all designed as constant reminders that nothing thinkable is ultimately absolute, merely relative.
So a major problem to solve? End all conflict in the world. Easy, already done it. The conflict you see in the world is merely your own projected evil in relation to your own projected good. You've been taught right and wrong, you interpreted it, you believed, now you see. How did I end all conflict in the world, I eradicated it in me. Kill me, my family, Jesus five more times, greatest thing that ever happened. All is perfect, all is as should be, nothing to conflict against.
'as within, so without'
'as ye think, so shall ye be'
'on earth (manifest) as in heaven (unmanifest or level of mind)'
'you cannot serve two masters'
Every wise master had been in awe of all things without judgement. Mystics who the world turns into religions of right and wrong and rules have all walked around in total worship of all things, totally connected and unified. Then their ignorant followers turned them against their killers and made winner/loser scenarios and created next life revenge and vidication that was in them, not in their masters. As an enlightend master myself, a total affirmer, one who is so satisfied and appreciative of this life, I need no projected (again, mind made) future utopia to have escape from this world. Here I could take you into 'master moralilty' and 'slave morality' discussions that would simply rock your fucking world, no time though, check out your 'Beyond Good and Evil' by Frederich Neitzsche, I'm going to celebrate my existence in Times Square with my brothers and sisters. Peace out.