Spacious

The mind is exclusively interested in thoughts. Consciousness has no thought process.

Wild things

Ministry of Natural Resources: Don’t feed the wildlife.

Zen: Don’t feed your thoughts.

No small achievement

Don’t get involved with your thoughts. Let them come. And let them go.

The Moviegoer

In the cinema, an audience takes for real the images on the screen. Back on the street, same phenomenon—people feeling this way or that, taking for real the thoughts in their heads.

A whiter shade of pale

“Why are you troubled?”

Not by anything that happens but by my thoughts about what happens.

It’s just that, isn’t it? My difficulty is I cannot look at anything without thinking about it.