The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello and welcome to this third talk on wise thinking and one of the reasons one of the reasons why this topic of mindfulness of thinking, wise thinking is so important

is that the way that we

the way that we relate to our thinking

is also related to how we, it's also connected to how we relate to anything that comes

from outside of us any information ideas content and specifically what's been on my mind lately is the way that we relate to

media, the way we relate to our screens.

Everything that comes through a screen,

one way or the other represents someone else's thinking. Someone has produced it, designed it,

thought it out, and so in that sense we're constantly living in someone else's

content of their thoughts that they've created for us.

I mean in some sense maybe that was clear as when we are reading something that someone has put their thoughts on paper.

But when we, and watching screens and videos and consuming news that we have,

you know, how do we relate to it?

And I would like to propose that an unhealthy way

of relating to it is how many people relate to their own thinking. of

it relating to it is how many people relate to their own thinking. We're the consumers of information,

consumers of opinions,

even if we don't like them or approve of them, we take them in, we react to them, so often as a society as a whole.

For many people their thoughts are the same way.

There's no sense of distance from their thoughts

or sense of questioning their thoughts

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