I once heard Maharishi Mahesh Yogi say, ".....and they don't even know what a 
thought is."

At the time, we all felt so smug, but 40 years later, I'm wondering if FFL 
could possibly agree on a definition.

I maintained that I have 5 thoughts per second.  My definition of thought is "a 
complete concept."

Using this definition, I note that when I count as fast as I can, mentally, I 
can get up to five before the second hand clicks to the next second.

Each number is clearly heard in my mind rather than it being kind of slurringly 
said process.

You?

Here's the rub:  obviously the brain/body is processing actual millions of 
inputs, and most of the material is "ignored."  Proof being that YOUR elbow 
just now that I mention it is found to be sending you messages about its 
position, pressures on it, clothing rubbing sensations etc.  This information 
is broadcast 24/7 to you, but almost never gets to the front burner of 
consciousness.  
 

 Clearly 5 thoughts per second is a relative concept.

Never-the-less, I like to offer it as a starter concept about thought.  If one 
CAN have conscious awareness of five thoughts per second, then the concept of 
"cherry picking" comes to my fore.  Seems to me that all of us are cherry 
picking which of our thoughts to attend and which to ignore, but this "picking" 
is automated and usually not a conscious choice.  

Seems to me, enlightenment is a kind of surrendering to this vastness of 
processing -- it being a perfect example of "karma is unfathomable" and so just 
relax and let it all happen.


 Q:   Can there be awareness without an object of awareness?


 Nisargadatta:  Awareness with an object we called witnessing. When there is 
also self-identification with the object, caused by desire or fear, such a 
state is called a person. In reality there is only one state; when distorted by 
self-identification it is called a person, when coloured with the sense of 
being, it is the witness; when colourless and limitless, it is called the 
Supreme.
 


  
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