teacher raises a good point in a comparison of thoughts and thinking.
He uses the story of seeing a pickup truck with a blue tarp over the
back, of instantly getting the thought that there's a dead body in
back of that truck, under the tarp. He had no control over his brain
generating that thought. The brain just creates thoughts, that is what
it does. It is the thinking you do about the thoughts that gets you in
trouble. Also, the thoughts that come up, we invest them with meaning
and value--good and bad-- which feeds the thought process. Not that
thoughts and thinking are bad; sometimes we need to think, certainly;
but most thoughts-- perhaps we'd be better off ignoring,
David
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