Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00037)

>Is it possible to say that an empty space thinks also? That is the only way
>I can think off to describe it. The brain seems to have deferred to the mind
>and thoughts come from somewhere else via the now quieter brain which no
>longer thinks madly about everything and everything. Everything just sort of
>'is' and life takes on a smoother troublefree path. >
>>
>Bee Brown
>Member Theosophy International
>
An observation of mine is about the relatioship bewteen thought and its
translation into words. The observation is that the 'thoughts' are
independent of thier translation into words; that thoughts exists before
thier translation.
Thoughts seam to appear in a whole lump it seems to take time and
concentration to make the transistion into words. I am not not multilingual
so would like input from anyone that is - "Do toughts exist independantly of
the language you are thinking in?". Also there is the experience of 'not
being able to find the word' ie the thought exists before its linguistic
expression.

I don't know how to analyse this in terms of higher mind / lower mind /
brain etc. Does anywone haeve any input?

Anyway I have used this as a technique of meditation:- to try and stay in
that space where thoughts are thoughts but before they become words. I
found it a very effective way to 'quiet the mind' and gain insites into the
mind's working.
You can gain also gain an appreciation of the 'problems' of the translation
service. There is certainly and reduction and compression happening.

I would love some people to try this and give me some feedback.

This also opens up ideas about communictaion and its limitations - great
communicators seem to transmitt the thought as a whole to their audience and
communicate more than the sum of their words. I love listening to great
speakers and good theatre or a good book and never loose fasination of
this process!

malcolm idoine malcolmi@iconz.co.nz