Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about grasping the illusory nature of thought. What is a thought exactly?

What really is it?

This is one of those kind of questions that everyone thinks that they know to the point where they don't even

bother investigating it or they take it as some sort of philosophical question that

has no pertinent application to their everyday life.

And nothing could be further from the truth.

One of the most important questions you can ask in your life is this question of what is a thought

because after all you do think quite a bit

So if what you think a thought is is not what a thought is, then wouldn't that be embarrassing?

Wouldn't that be a source of potentially many problems in your life if you were somehow fundamentally mistaken about really the true nature of thoughts.

After all, you're using thoughts to think about your life and you're using thoughts to

analyze reality and you're using thoughts to

grasp truth and yet you've never really bothered to grasp what thoughts are you've always taken them for granted.

Pretty much always. From day one, you've taken thoughts for granted. And your thoughts are a very odd, almost quasi-magical, mystical thing.

Because they're not physical objects out in the physical world.

They're happening inside your mind, so to speak.

But what exactly are they?

The nature of thoughts is illusory and most people do not have awareness over what thoughts are and this gets them into so much trouble.

The difference between knowing what a thought is and not knowing what a thought is is the difference between living in a self-constructed mental prison,

a hellscape in which you suffer all the negative emotions that you suffer, All your anger, your sadness, your

frustration, all the difficulties you have in relationships with money, with

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