Friday, October 2, 2009

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The word is the thinker

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Without the word is there thought? Or is the mind such a slave to words that it cannot see the movement of thought without the word? That is: Can I, can the mind, observe “me”, the whole content of “me”, without the word? Observe what I am without association—the association is the word, the memory, the remembrance—therefore there is a learning about myself without any remembrance, without the accumulated knowledge as experience of anger, jealousy, antagonism, or desire for power. So can I look at myself—not I—can the mind look at itself without the movement of the word, because the word is the thinker, the word is the observer? On Mind and Thought, p 49
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