Author Topic: Newbie  (Read 2476 times)

AZS

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #30 on: February 22, 2018, 10:15:01 am »
Thank you, Jed.

Today I saw that it is an assumption/belief to say that if there is a thought then there must be a thinker/place from which it comes from. Well, in my direct experience thoughts appear to arise from nothing/nowhere at all - there is nobody/nothing behind them that is thinking i.e. no source. And it had me thinking that it applies not just to thoughts. Whenever there is an action/sensation/sound there is an immediate assumption that there must be someone/something doing/sensing/making a sound. It's such a deeply ingrained belief that it is kind of invisible and automatic and saying it's otherwise would be appear crazy to the majority of people. And that's another thing that's happening - I do not have much to say to people nowadays. It's like the inner impulse to share things about "me" (which I used to love) is dying down. And it's all ok. The mind is slowly but surely unwinding its layers of beliefs and there is nobody there to care/be scared/excited about it. Like you say, it is kind of flat but not in a numb/repressed kind of way. Further...