observing my flow of consciousness

Ag at 41. Really? You are a squatter !

I think therefore I scam. Back of the net !

Sounds good Ag . Music is great isn't it? Makes you feel amazing . I so wish I could dance . I think maybe though it's generally women that love to dance .

Though John Travolta in pulp fiction is all kinds of cool . Be great to dance beautifully with a lady .

I love the title of this thread and I love doing it . The content of the title I mean . I'm amazed at the response too . It's nice just to have a little chat here and let my learning come from observation . Relaxing

Tom, according to science we have some 50 000 thoughts every day. Some studies indicates as much as 70 000 thoughts. More than 90% of the thoughts are re-runs of privious thoughts. You can observe, but I would suggest that you let the thoughts go. They are unimportant. The only thing that matters is to be mindful. Mindfulness slows the thought-process down. Aim for quality, not quantity.

OP, go to India. Stay in one of the ashrams and ask the swami all those questions.

Only if he's into brass rubbings :)

Descartes was a philosopher long ago who doubted everything but using his own thinking about himself came to a miraculous conclusion, I think, therefore I am. He was doubting everything, and his doubt was real, so *he* was real. :)

Also, this is kind of nice but I think a bunch of internetians will come in soon and start spreading their fertilizer if you know what I mean...

Stay out Internetians! :D

Descartes famous words are nonsense. He should have said: I think, therefore I think I am.

Descartes was a buffoon at best. You should rahter read Voltaire. Also if you are telling yourself you are happy but only trying to figure out what you are then you are not happy, you are in denial.

Ag 53. It would be cool though to dance in harmony with a beautiful lady that you love . Don't you think so ?

Estren 54 . This is a very interesting post to me . It's a bit tricky for me to answer but I'll try

Well maybe I'll take it in two steps . The first is to talk about how I see things from my point of view . The second to address your point directly . I do try to conduct a dialogue but sometimes it takes me a while to catch up

I have to admit though I feel I come into this thread with more of an open mind than any of the other threads . Observing is open do you know what I mean? It's not saying learn this , it's saying teach me .

Anyway the first step. My experience Estren purely observation. Observing thoughts , observing feelings , observing sounds , observing my mind creating problems and my mind creating solutions.

I know just what you mean about not engaging the thoughts , to me this means just observing and nothing else and that's what I'm doing . With one exception . I record what I've seen at times .

Okay that's my first step complete.

As for your point . Yes absolutely I'm mindful and I find too that the thoughts are extremely sparse . I may see a few things within a thirty minute period . A bit like catching fish maybe . And it's lovely experiencing the quiet in between . Thoughts . These thoughts are a bit different then ordinary thoughts for me . They are myself noticing experience and noticing my mind processing this experience . A little different then these other thoughts you mention

By the way I think that I'm in quite an advanced position because I've been doing this for over a decade continually. but you know I've just started in terms of wanting to know what I am . Previously it was wanting to see why I wasn't coping

About to do housework but I thought it might be relevant at this point to tell you what I gained/am gaining through the observation for the purpose of coping .

I found that I am love . That I didn't need to try . In fact that trying was making me lose touch with this love that I truly am .

That's it in a nutshell . I'm not selling this idea anymore though . I'm not trying to learn through conversation anymore . That didn't work .

This time I'm just observing . Having said that it's pleasant and interesting to hear the views of others and I hope to have some beautiful moments of friendship whilst I post here what I observe and chat about how I observe and what I'm seeing