You Don't Know Where Thoughts Come From
The River of What Is: Finding the Problem
August 28, 2024
dialogue

You Don't Know Where Thoughts Come From

No sabes de dónde vienen los pensamientos

The teacher reflects on the nature of experience, noting that all there is amounts to thinking, sensing, hearing, seeing, and tasting, and that we never truly know where emotions or thoughts originate.

You Don't Know Where Thoughts Come From

The teacher reflects on the nature of experience, noting that all there is amounts to thinking, sensing, hearing, seeing, and tasting, and that we never truly know where emotions or thoughts originate.

There's thinking. There's sensing. There's hearing. That's all there is. Seeing. Tasting.

Now that you said that, something clicked, because you don't really know where emotions or thoughts come from. It could be the thought of the person next door. And if I know enough that this is the case, if I've experienced enough that this is the case, then that changes everything.