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Do our thoughts turn an objective reality into a subjective experience that leads to suffering?
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Don't our thoughts overlay an objective reality?
I find that when my thoughts are aligned with reality, there is no suffering (thoughts are just seen as thoughts and they are left to think). However when subjectivity is added (when I throw myself into the mix) there is discomfort, desire, greed, suffering, fear, doubt, uncertainty, less confidence.
When thoughts are just seen as thoughts, life is beautiful.
Why do we create our own suffering? It seems as if until we're shaken out of a dream we continue to believe we are our thoughts. It's like a horrible mistake in our evolution, we need our thoughts to act logically but somewhere along the way we forgot who we were and identified ourselves with a tool.. How tragic.
I find that when my thoughts are aligned with reality, there is no suffering (thoughts are just seen as thoughts and they are left to think). However when subjectivity is added (when I throw myself into the mix) there is discomfort, desire, greed, suffering, fear, doubt, uncertainty, less confidence.
When thoughts are just seen as thoughts, life is beautiful.
Why do we create our own suffering? It seems as if until we're shaken out of a dream we continue to believe we are our thoughts. It's like a horrible mistake in our evolution, we need our thoughts to act logically but somewhere along the way we forgot who we were and identified ourselves with a tool.. How tragic.
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I agree, though the classification as objective and subjective is a fabrication of thought
However, ignorance creates our own suffering.
Please, let us all not underestimate this ignorance.
It is deeper than "us" or "we".