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This morning I mentioned how the visual field is probably the predominant sense field in which we live and often are not mindful of the fact that we're seeing. But really there's a sense

feel that's even more predominant probably than seeing, and which I want to talk about this afternoon because

it plays such an amazingly critical role in our lives and our relationships.

And that is the whole realm of thought.

Now in the Buddhist scheme of things, the mind is considered the sixth sense.

So it's really just like another sense field, but instead of an external sense object like sounds or sight or smells the

object of this sense sphere is thought, thought is the object of mind.

There is so much to say about thought because for the most part they run our lives.

One of the most extraordinary things to

first learn about thought,

and there are many many things to explore but one is to

realize how much of the time we're lost in thought.

You know, probably if you go up to somebody in the street who's never meditated

and you say, you know, are you lost in your thoughts?

Oh, no, not too much.

But anybody who's ever meditated

knows that probably a good part of the time

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