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# Final question on 'Observation'

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- Subject: Final question on 'Observation'
- From: "Richard Be X Born <ribex@...>" <ribex@...>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:52:48 -0000
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    Greetings!

    I want to ask a final question regarding 'observation of thoughts'. I
    am at the stage in my exercises where I feel instinctively that I
    should move on to 'one-pointedness'. This was somewhat confirmed by
    last night's dream pertaining to the exercise. I was running a race
    in snow and came eighth place (was given the number 8 on the issue).

    First, to make the question easier to understand perhaps, I would
    like to explain how I have found my mind to think. I recognize at
    least three levels of mentation:

    * Linguistic thought -> Thought formulated into words on
    a "loud", "auditory" level.
    * Abstract thought -> Thought not yet based on words, yet external to
    the direct awareness.
    * Inner thought -> Thought that is intimately linked to consciousness
    itself.

    Inner thought is in other words the ideation-process itself. It is
    extremely "close" to the center of awareness, and races alongside the
    stream of awareness as if inseperatable from it. Attempting to
    observe it, _is_ thinking of observing it. It is the mental
    equivalent of action, or purpose itself.

    Abstract thought, on the other hand, is the first inner level of
    deviation from the focus of action/purpose. If pursued, it tends to
    objectify into linguistic thought, and subsequentially distract the
    focus of inner thought's action/purpose. It seemingly has a life of
    its own, and follows memory/association patterns rather than the
    action/purpose/ideation process.

    Linguistic thought is a result rather than a cause; it seems to be
    the intellectual emphasis of inner or abstract thought, as to
    consciously convey its meaning to the physical brain or memory. It,
    too, can seem to have a life of its own, although in fact it then
    operates solely as a echo of memory or other diverse seperate
    phenomena.

    Anyways, I have mastered the observation of what I above termed
    linguistic and abstract thought without problem. I have also mastered
    the observation of involuntary reaction to external stimuli. However,
    I find it impossible to observe my inner thought, seeing as by
    attempting to observe it, this in effect causes the action of
    thinking itself. Perhaps calling this inner process thought is per
    default faulty; perhaps it is more the mediator between thought and
    consciousness rather than an actual level of thought?

    As you probably can tell, I am having a very hard time formulating
    the de-facto question... ;-)

    I guess the question is this: Where does thought begin and the active
    process of consciousness end?

    Any help would be immensily helpful...

    Well met
    Vovin

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