Hey Brexit,
And when you LOOK can a thinker of thought be found anywhere?
I have always thought that the thinker is in the brain. But After looking that there is no actual experience of a brain, but just an experience of colour. The question of a thinker of thought has become superfluous. When I look, the thought appears from nowhere. There is no thinker of thought to be found. A thought come and say I am the thinker from the previous thought, but this is also just a thought.
Can the brain actually be seen on a daily basis? Can you see a brain right now? The brain is the AE of thought and not the AE of colour. It is only when actually ‘seeing’ a brain that the actual experience would be AE of colour and AE of thought. If there is no colour labelled ‘brain’ appearing, then ‘brain’ is AE of thought only. Is this clear?
The human brain weighs about 3 pounds and is made up of 60% fat and 75% water. It contains 100 billion neurons, 100 trillion synapses, trillions of axons, and 500 billion glial cells. It allows you to see, to hear, to taste, to smell, and to feel. It is the reason that experience exists, or...
... is all of that just a very elaborate story?
Look at experience as it actually is right now...
Can you actually find the 3 pounds of grey matter in experience right now?
Can you actually find the 100 billion neurons in experience right now?
Can you actually find 100 trillion synapses in experience right now?
Can you actually find trillions of axons in experience right now?
Can you actually find 500 billion glial cells in experience right now?
Can you actually find the connection between the brain and colours, sounds, smells, sensations etc that you are aware of right now?
And if you cannot find ANY of these things, what else could they be but a story told by thought?
Experience is undeniably real, but the brain is just a tale told by a storyteller (thought) that doesn't even know that it's speaking…a storyteller that isn't aware of anything and doesn't even know that it exists.
The concept of thinking appears but can an actual thinker be found?
The concept of thinking appears than comes a thought that claims the ownership of it. This is only another thought. No Actual thinker can be found.
Lovely!
How is the decision made?
I have the feeling that the decision has long been made, before I had noticed it.
And the label ‘decision’ is just a label about thought and is just further AE of thought.
Pinpoint exactly,the decision point each and every time when a thought MADE THE DECISION to raise a hand and the hands raises IMMEDIATELY.
The thought come always after the hands raise and makes itself the owner of the decision.
Hmm….sometimes the thought seems to come prior to the hand raising, however, did you notice that when the thought to raise the hand appeared, the hand did not always raise? If a thought was the catalyst that raised the hand, then whenever a thought appeared to raise the hand, then the hand should automatically raise….right?
Okay, so let’s try another exercise. The aim of the following exercise is to discover whether the function of choice can really be found or confirmed in actual experience. The idea of making ‘choices‘ is a very clear example of a function that we wrongly identify as the basis of our identity.
Here's what’s needed - A chair, a table and two different drinks. Any two drinks you like are okay for this: coffee, tea, milk, water, juices, smoothies, beer, wine, etc.
Preparation - Place the two drinks side by side on the table in front of you, sit comfortably on the chair and mentally label them as drink A and drink B.
Experiment - Finding the function of choice
Sit for a few moments, take a few relaxed breaths and let the dust settle. When you feel ready:
1. Look at drink A and at drink B. Think about their respective qualities, the things you like about them, compare and weigh the pros and cons of each. See if a preference is manifesting for one or the other.
2. Count to 5.
3. Choose one of the drinks. Pick it up and take a sip.
Questions:
Remember that we’re looking for some kind of function, a something, an ‘I’ which is doing the ‘choosing’.
In step 1 when thinking about their respective qualities, did you ‘choose’ the qualities? Or did they kind of appear by themselves? If some preferences manifested, did you ‘choose’ these preferences? Or did they just pop up by themselves?
In step 2 when you counted to 5, if the preferences took the back seat while the numbers took the front seat, did you ‘choose’ this sequence of event? Did you ‘choose’ to shut down the preferences to give way to the counting? Did you directly experience a mental function or faculty doing the ‘choosing’? Have you seen this function in action?
In step 3 where you made a choice, did you actually witness or directly experience a mental function or faculty doing the ‘choosing’? Did anything arise that announced, ‘I am the chooser’? If so, what does this function look like?
Sometimes we describe this sense of choosing as a ‘feeling’: It feels like ‘I’ did the ‘choosing’. But the question is, can a feeling ‘choose’? Is it in the nature of a feeling to ‘choose’?
Love, Kay
xx
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
