What is an Original Thought?

[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, Someone here said:

You're saying the thing which is described via limited language(which don't give it justice )isn't the label itself but it is the thing itself which is being labelled ? That's kids play .I understand that but that's really not what's being discussed though . 

No!

I am saying you can be truly original, if you just stop being lazy.

[Someone here]

@Leo Gura OK lol 😂 

[Someone here]

I understand relative originality but I thought the question is about absolute originality. 

If we are talking relative orginal then theory of evolution or general relativity are examples .

But if we are talking absolute original..that must be the first thing ever .

Edited 17 hours ago by Someone here

[Joseph Maynor]

@Someone here How would you describe absolute originality?

[Someone here]

4 minutes ago, Someone here said:

the first thing ever

@Joseph Maynor

[Princess Arabia]

Hioplkmnbh, poiun, kopi. Original enough for ya!

[Salvijus]

I'm going to say you can't invent anything new. Everything that is possible already exists. You can only discover what people around you haven't discovered yet. But that's not your original invention. Nor is that discovery original if you consider the whole cosmos. 

Edited 12 hours ago by Salvijus

[emptiness dancing]

4 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

Hioplkmnbh, poiun, kopi. Original enough for ya!

Nope! Sorry! Kopi is coffee in certain languages. Please try to be original next time! Thank you very much!!

[Mellowmarsh]

“Originality” is a concept known. Known concepts are fictions that know nothing.

Asking what is an original thought is like asking what is an original aggregate.

The answer is already in the question. A question arises only to the sense of self in this conception, within the fictional dream of separation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mellowmarsh]

13 hours ago, James123 said:

There is no such thing as thought, like creating.

Thoughts are command of mind to body in order to function. That's all.

The demand for knowledge is what builds up the story of me from what’s already been stored to memory. Therefore the memory is what creates the sense of being “me” in the present whenever there is a demand for “me” to appear.

 

But yes, there’s no such thing as thought, except as imagined dreamscape, aka, memory.
 

In reality, thought is not necessary to be. Real beingness is thoughtless. Real is simply just what’s happening, that doesn’t require any memory about it. Reality is always original, not a replay, or repeat.
 

 

[UnbornTao]

Maybe Kant is a good example.

At the risk of oversimplifying, he changed the trajectory of philosophy by proposing that the mind does not perceive reality as it is.

That may sound lame on paper for some of us - but in this context, what idea doesn't? What form would it even take? I think we tend to assume that an original thought has to look a certain way (like being exceptionally extravagant) - but what way, exactly?

What made it original may have had more to do with the origin of the insight itself - experiential - and with the fact that he had authentically seen something true and profound, made a genuine breakthrough, and was able to communicate it in a way that was effective.

Just some thoughts.

Edited 9 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Carl-Richard]

7 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

Hioplkmnbh, poiun, kopi. Original enough for ya!

[James123]

2 hours ago, Mellowmarsh said:

The demand for knowledge is what builds up the story of me from what’s already been stored to memory. Therefore the memory is what creates the sense of being “me” in the present whenever there is a demand for “me” to appear.

 

But yes, there’s no such thing as thought, except as imagined dreamscape, aka, memory.
 

In reality, thought is not necessary to be. Real beingness is thoughtless. Real is simply just what’s happening, that doesn’t require any memory about it. Reality is always original, not a replay, or repeat.
 

 

Yes. But, actually, thoughts or thoughtless, mind chattering or empty mind are all concepts, belief.

Mind thinks, body moves. That's all.

 

[UnbornTao]

44 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

Oh no!

@Princess Arabia  

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

10 hours ago, Someone here said:

@NewKidOnTheBlock Gesundheit, confirmed.  😘

Nope I'm not him, gotta say tho Nahms way of thievery was original, maybe he can chime in on this topic as well😆

[Carl-Richard]

2 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Oh no!

@Princess Arabia  

Quite ironic that it means "copy", i.e. not original 😂

[Ishanga]

What about the 100th Monkey theory, where one person or Monkey comes up with something new and somehow that is picked up by other humans or monkeys at another location telepathically or otherwise but its impossible for them to be in communication with one another, what's up with this Theory?

 

[Nemra]

Try to come up with the formula for the surface area of objects by yourself.

Edited 4 hours ago by Nemra

[Princess Arabia]

6 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Well, I'll be damned.