--- In [email protected], "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that awareness is necessary for thoughts to happen but > thoughts are not necessary for awareness to happen. Awareness > without thinking is still awareness of something, only there are no > thoughts. Can't really think about it but I'm sure we have all > experienced it. > > Rick Carlstrom
**** A few years ago I had a long lasting experience of just witnessing without any discernible thoughts as I had used to have. As this state had lasted for may be 3-4 hours, while I had been all the time doing my normal daily chores at home, I felt a suggestion to come from deep inside to go to cycling in the city to see if the state lasts. I went for a 15-20 minutes ride and it lasted. Later I have analysed this experience and come to the following conclusion: Thoughts by words following each other in time actually were not there, but another form of more effective thinking that happens not by words and sentences. We all have this kind of thinking, but we observe only the grosser level thinking by words. I think this way also animals think or make sense of the world, although with the human brain capacity this kind of thinking can be much more cognitively advanced. I think all my deeper insights and ideas have come this way. Also in my work in engineering. But if you want to share these ideas with others I must find words to describe them. This is usually the much more difficult part. Insights usually appear spontaneously in a blink of an eye. The laborious part is to find expressions in words, if I want to share my insights. Irmeli To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
