--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > (snip) > > > What does the experiencing of a thought? > > > > I think you may have left out a word, or more than one word > > in the above sentence, it does not make sense. Slow down, > > you may be rushing it here. You are normally more careful > > than this. > > "Does" is an active verb in that sentence. Substitute > "accomplishes" if that helps clarify it for you.
Oh, that does clarify it. It was sort of an unusual construction like 'what does the washing of a shirt?'. I really do not know the answer to that question. Thoughts just come. How is it they tell us in checking - did you notice a thought comes effortlessly, spontaneously - something like that? Thought is a strange experience for me lately. First, they seem to come fully formed. No levels. No sense of subtle and gross. Like a flattened bubble diagram. TM really does not seem to have anything to work with much anymore. Then there is the sense of virtual thoughts, some kind of activity like a thought that never breaks surface. Can't really describe it. And there is the sense that 'something' (a placeholder word for what I cannot describe) is radiating from every point of experience. Perhaps that is just a projection of the mind trying to navigate what it cannot fathom, because the general sense of experience is that even though there is activity, it is essentially static, as if nothing is really happening. And, on top of that, there are mental conditioned responses, analagous to the doctor's rubber mallet on the knee, such as stubbing a bare toe on a table leg, and the mind comes up with 'damn table, what the hell is it doing in *my* way', which seemingly completely contradicts the nature of what, at least in description, are much more esoteric experiences like experiencing the world as a unity. âPlus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.â
