Figure Out Who The Experiencer of Your Thoughts Is
Maybe then your life will change
Life is a bunch of experiences. You think about what’s going on “right now” and what might happen in the future. Very often, you’re thinking of the past in your memory. (Of course, all of these things are in the present moment, giving us an illusion of the passage of time.) You think about what you want for lunch and why someone ghosted you. You worry, feel, think, and judge. The mind is a whole world. But do these thoughts define you? Do they make up your life? Yeah, they kinda do.
All of your life is a myriad of experiences that are mental activities, therefore life is a mental activity. You live within your mind. Reality is consciousness.
So, if you decide that your experiences don’t define you, then maybe you can start to decide what does define you. Are you really just a bundle of thoughts? But they change so often. So, who are you?
Your thoughts aren’t you. But you are experiencing them, right? So who is “you”? Let’s figure that out.
Who or What Are You?
When I’m meditating, I notice that thoughts and feelings arise in me against a kind of backdrop, and then they also fade away. It’s like watching a theater production. The plot just keeps unfolding.
