Thoughts on Experience

[James123]

@Nemra experience is a form of thought. 

So, attachment to a thought is attachment to an experience.

Therefore, both misleads inevatibly. 

Comes and goes, appears and disseappears.

[Ziran]

3 hours ago, Nemra said:

Are your dreams less real than your waking life?

Good question

[Nemra]

4 hours ago, James123 said:

@Nemra experience is a form of thought. 

If experience was a form of thought, wouldn't you be able to think stuff into existence?

Can you have a thought if there wasn't an experience?

Haven't you had an experience without thinking about it?

I would say that we have ideas about experiences.

Edited 12 hours ago by Nemra

[Nemra]

@Ziran, I like it when non-duality pops up unintentionally.

[James123]

4 hours ago, Nemra said:

If experience was a form of thought, wouldn't you be able to think stuff into existence?

Can you have a thought if there wasn't an experience?

Haven't you had an experience without thinking about it?

I would say that we have ideas about experiences.

If you don't think, what will be experience?

[Ramasta9]

"The drama of experience" 

[VeganAwake]

The conditioned mind turns a meaningless appearance into a dream story (matrix) of meaning, purpose and value. When there seems to be identification as the thinker, it's called an experience.

The appearance is full in the sense that it's bursting with light, colors, smells and sounds!

&

The appearance is empty in the sense that it's completely meaningless! 

[Nemra]

7 hours ago, James123 said:

If you don't think, what will be experience?

Thoughtless experience.

You are sharing your thoughts about it now.

Edited 56 minutes ago by Nemra

[James123]

38 minutes ago, Nemra said:

Thoughtless experience.

You are sharing your thoughts about it now.

You need to meditate. No. I don't. 

When thinker is gone. Entire universe stops.

[Nemra]

14 minutes ago, James123 said:

No. I don't.

Yes, you do.

If your thinking isn't self-reflective and you find understanding the underlying processes difficult, perhaps it might be better for you not to think.

[Mellowmarsh]

54 minutes ago, Nemra said:

Thoughtless experience.

You are sharing your thoughts about it now.

A “Thoughtless experience” is a thought.

A “thoughtless experience” is impossible. 

[Nemra]

1 minute ago, Mellowmarsh said:

A “Thoughtless experience” is a thought.

Yes. We are sharing our thoughts.

1 minute ago, Mellowmarsh said:

A “thoughtless experience” is impossible. 

Why would it be impossible?

[Mellowmarsh]

1 minute ago, Nemra said:

 

Why would it be impossible?

Because a”thoughtless experience”is still a thought.

[Nemra]

Just now, Mellowmarsh said:

Because a”thoughtless experience”is still a thought.

I don't understand why it can't be both.