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Hi Steffi
Where do thoughts come from? No idea. They suddenly appear, as the sounds and the smells. There is a feeling that they are perceived/noticed first in a non-verbal form, and then they are somehow put into words – all done very quickly and effortlessly. The thoughts immediately pull away attention to their content, like a giant magnet, in a way that the content takes over from consciously registering that a thought has just appeared. When the thought/thought train is gone, the mind registers that there were thoughts – in retrospect. Thoughts are rarely caught red-handed, in the act.
Where do thoughts go? They just evaporate and disappear from the mind. If the mind wants to keep hold of a thought, it will keep repeating it again and again, until it is dropped.
Sometimes thoughts can be felt „under the surface“ so to speak – not conscious enough to be put into words, but conscious enough to generate sensations in the body (feelings).
Adrienne
Dear Steffi!
There is no self in seeing, hearing, perceiving or experiencing! There is no self here and now! The self lives only in the storyland of thoughts!
Adrienne
Hi Steffi
I believe you have read my first LU thread. Since then I have had a second one under the name avva2. I graduated from LU just a few days ago, but I am still in dialogue with Elad because there hasn’t been a shift. I am still looking for the sense of self and finding only thoughts.
I have been feeling well. The depression I had was gone by January 2024. Since then I have been fine. I did trauma work with a therapist and also with vince.Looking forward to our next meeting.
Adrienne
There is no sense of self at all. No feeling or thought saying that „I am lying on the bed“, or „I am writing“. There are still thoughts about the me and what the me has to do, like „I need to do the washing-up“. There is also the feeling of separation, although it is not clear what is separate from what.
When I ask the question „Is there a sense of self?“ when doing things, I am unable to answer the question. Somehow the word „self“ doesn’t make any sense. Could it be because I have exchanged the belief in self for the belief in no self? If yes, is that a problem? What is the way out? Should I continue asking about a sense of self even if there is no answer? Are we expecting the mind to give an answer here?
