Hay-Ku of the Day ("Late to the Party")

"Thinking I Am the

Thinker" is an "after-the-

Fact" thought-overlay.

"Thinking I Am the

Thinker" is an after-the-

Fact "cover story."

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"Thinking I'm Thinking"

Is a "Cover Story" that

The mind fabricates.

After-the-fact thought's

A Mental Cover Story

That mind fabricates.

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"Thinking I'm thinking"

Is "after-the-fact" thought that's

"Late to the Party!"

"The Story of Me"

Is an "after the fact" self

Construction of mind.

My "play by play" self

Commentary is always

After-the-fact thought.

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Identified with 

Thought I'm subject to mental

Associations.

Associative thoughts

And feelings are triggered by

Outer circumstance.

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I am caught in an

After-the-fact process of

Habitual thought.

The associative

Nature of mind has "me" caught

In a stream of thought.

The "streaming" nature

Of self-thought has "me" caught-up

In it's "endless flow."

"What is actually happening when I think I am making a choice? Urges spontaneously arise in consciousness, thoughts arise, interpretations arise...Where do they arise from? Before they've arisen, do you decide that they're GOING to arise? Do you MAKE them arise?  THAT would really be the exercise of choice. But if you look carefully at any process of choice, what we call an act of choice is the after-the-fact labeling of a situation where urges and thoughts have actually spontaneously appeared from nowhere.

Thoughts come from, and disappear, to nowhere.  We think that we're THINKING thoughts, but in actuality we DON'T think about thinking the particular thoughts before we think them, or decide before we think them that we're GOING to think them; in actuality the thoughts just pop-up, and then we identify that we're thinking them. They just show-up." -- Peter Brown ("Dirty Enlightenment, pg. 50)