Words Are Not The Thing, The Thing Is True, Words Are Not

When the mind is not disturbed,

The mind feels nothing.

But as long as the mind begins to feel disturbed,

The mind begins to be confused consciously.

Because the mind can't find out the source of the disturbance.

The mind feels disturbed and the mind can easily find a scapegoat.

But actually the mind doesn't really understand why it's disturbed.

Because the mind hasn't realized that it is conditioned to thoughts.

The life is conditioned to thoughts.

It feels so true,

But this feeling of being true is a deception from the thoughts.

Because the mind perceives based on thoughts and the mind isn't aware of the thoughts at all.

What are thoughts?

We rarely ask this question.

Because we feel that thoughts are so normal,

Everybody is thinking,

So we just take it for granted.

We rarely ask,

Inquire into the nature of thoughts.

We can easily imagine that there are some images in the mind.

And these thoughts can also bring about sensations.

When we are thinking something nice,

That very thinking brings about pleasure.

Of course,

The opposite also exists.

When we are thinking something bad,

The reactions to thoughts are also there.

Feeling hurt,

Feeling depressed,

It's all this result of the thought processes.

We can also imagine some verse,

Some sound.

They are all images.

Though it seems to be different from the visual images,

But it is still the images.

Verse,

Symbols are all images.

You see,

Thoughts are those abstractions we have been used to.

And that's why the mind has mistakenly take the abstractions as something real.

And such life becomes very verbal.

And this civilization is very verbal,

Isn't it?

Everybody is expressing themselves from the media,

From all kinds of personal views.

Everyone is voicing themselves.

So you see,

Thoughts are so prevalent.

But one must ask,

Are thoughts really true?

What's the relation between thoughts and the reality?

If the mind is conditioned to thoughts,

The reality is trapped by thoughts.

The mind makes the thoughts and the realities.

But if one looks closely at thoughts,

The nature of the thoughts,

Which are images,

Mental images,

They are not true at all.

Though some content of the thoughts are pointing to the true,

But still they are not true.

In other words,

Verbs are not thin.

The thin is true.

The verbs are not.