Am I My Thoughts?
What a good way to start meditating.
What a good way for me to start my meditation.
Am I my thoughts?
Well. Am I my thoughts…? Hm. Am – I – my – thoughts?
These are four problematic terms.
Am I my thoughts? Or I am just this single thought of now? Am I at each moment again the thought that is in my head? Am I the thinker or the thinking?
No, that is not meditating.
Am I my thoughts?
Am I? Nothing comes. No thoughts except this one. And even of this one, I’m not sure.
I doubt it.
See more towards this in [see: “Are You Your Thoughts?“]
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