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I think we are familiar with the famous Cartesian, I think therefore I am, which is essentially a statement that epitomized

the human tendency of placing thought at the very center of our perceptual experience.

Much like we assumed that the Earth was at the center of the universe because it seemed that all the stars and planets and sun revolved

around us, but of course that wasn't the case. It seems to us that thought is at the epicenter of mind and that thought is in some way located behind the eyes between the years and that this narrator function in the brain is not only narrating life, but is in some way making

our choices, guiding our actions,

is somehow static or stable over long periods of time.

In other words, our thought faculty,

the inner languaging or inner talk,

not only narrates our experience, but it also claims that its words and ideas are the I stable identity that makes Josh,

Josh and you you is somehow intricately bonded with our core identity or our sense of self.

Again, we have this reverence for thought

is based on the perception that my thoughts lie at the absolute centrality of my perceptual experience,

again behind the eyes between the years and that this inner thought which is based on both words,

language and images, is not only turning life into stories and ideas, but is also in some

way making our decisions, moving our bodies through space and time, and providing us with a sense of identity or a sense of self.

Now interestingly, while this is a founding principle of Western philosophy and certainly up until the cart that thought was the single most salient important feature of our of the mind. In fact in the Buddhist darma dating back some 2,500 years

there wasn't a reverence for thought.

In fact, the reverence for thought

that we have was not found in the core tenets

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