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As our precursors who believe the earth was flat, the false perspective that we live under is the idea that the epicenter of the human mind is thinking.

Thoughts would generate our behaviors

and that if we could get our thoughts in line,

if we could only learn the right way to think that everything else would fall into place.

Negotiating interpersonal life is simply a matter of getting the right insight,

somehow being given the right insight, somehow being given the right set of ideas and concepts

and that everything will fall into place.

And this idea that thinking is at the epicenter of the mind is certainly by now one that's

way outdated some 2,500 years ago with the appearance of the

darma first suggested that the mind actually has no epicenter, no generative, single controlling entity.

That thinking was just one of many components in the mind

and was no more central than any other component. But even went further and said that if there was

any center or controlling element, it was feelings the way we feel in our body, right after we have any interaction in life, we have a feeling and from that feeling our drives and desires and our thoughts appear.

So feelings were for the Buddha if anything,

if any component of mental experience

lied at the epicenter, it was not the verbal component of the mind.

Freud in 1900, with the interpretation of dreams and proposed that the mind was, or there was a tripartate mind.

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