"There is this (mental) dwelling discovered by the Tathāgata where, not attending to any themes, he enters & remains in internal emptiness." Mahāsuññata Sutta
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The conglomerations we otherwise make out of thoughts, the narrative stories that sweep us away, then have no basis. Each movement of mind arises for a moment like a wave, then naturally subsides into oceanic space. Eventually, all grows still. At least that's my experience.

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Slept on this Is it that the thoughts subside or that, that aspect which observes disconnects from the machinery responsible for thought? The mind is not a whole but the sum of the parts. The seeds "bija" are an energetic phenomena and in large part what we experience as thought
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I spent a year or so with the medatitve effort of watching thought. I think my interest in the flow of process was disappointing to my teacher. The practice "See each thought hover"
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When the question of self is raised it is with the the effort of "Separating oneself from one's self" in mind. Ignoring the philosophical sophistry of this observation duality and all, we are two natured. One self innate the other grafted onto the foundational structures.
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I like the description of not sticking thoughts together. Seems intuitive. We do tend to justify, narrativise, identify with, or push away whatever arises in what otherwise seems to be empty space.
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