I am not my thoughts.
this is real weird when i notice i'm writing a long, complicated essay and im like ahhhh these thoughts are just showing up on the keyboard where is it coming from?? i notice complicated reasoning is happening ahhh!
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My 6 year old son told me a few nights ago that he couldn't get to sleep because "every word he'd ever heard was exploding in his mind, every day, all the time." I almost teared up, because, yeah, I know how that is. It takes a lifetime to learn how to live with it.
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Meditation helps to establish a more integrated relationship with the unconscious fountainhead of linguistic / imagistic thoughts, giving one the capacity to at least turn down the volume for long enough to fall asleep.
At least, it did for me.
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what are you?
what differentiates your thoughts from others' thoughts if not 'you' being the source of one stream and not the other?
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Welcome to the wonderful, weird world of nonduality. If you're looking for more experience with these ideas the meditative traditions have been splashing around in it for a few thousand years, no special tools required
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Though the part of you that thinks about whether you're in fact your thoughts *is* actually your thoughts, generated by a part of you to which your consciousness has little to no direct access.
So is that part really "you", or just the fractal inertia of 3.5B years of evolution?
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The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.