03-21-2014, 03:44 PM
(03-21-2014, 12:22 PM)mat422 Wrote: I guess I'm paranoid then. Unfortunately I can't go into this further, otherwise I'd be breaking the rules of the forum.
My views are always open to change. But past experience has taught me that this book does not benefit me.
If you had been present you could have seen that I was being Egoic by labeling you "paranoid". Just like you reinforce your thoughts with believing them to be true, you reinforce your "self-image" by accepting the label as yourself.
This is how I comprehend it:
Thoughts and saliva are the same kind of thing.
When you see, smell, or sense food that is appealing, you salivate. Your saliva changes due to the external stimuli, but YOU are NOT the saliva, it just works inside your body.
Same with thoughts. They start "juicin" when external stimuli are/is present but they are just something that happens in your body YOU are NOT your thoughts. Nor are YOU paranoid, your thoughts are, and you believe you are them (you identify with them).
If I were to identify with my saliva, I might say "Man, I'm gushing wet right now." when I see food and get some weird looks from people, but it is, in essence, the same with thoughts.
You are not paranoid, you have paranoia INSIDE of you.
The saliva is in the mouth, the thoughts are in the brain.
Food for thought. :o
lol
Oh, and just like you can salivate by thinking about food with not a single piece of food around, so too can you react to thoughts that are of things that aren't even happening. Like the past. The past is gone yo, where is it but inside your mind?
Where are you RIGHT NOW? In the past? In the future? Where will you EVER be, if not right here, right NOW?
