This is the best line from Moana 2. Yes, I know what K said about choosing, but the average adult makes about 35,000 choices a day. Do our choices construct us, define us, refine us?
We never stop choosing who we are because the chooser is the chosen. We donât know anything but what we choose to believe.
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Considering the 70,000 thoughts we have each day, it appears that half our thoughts are choices: what to wear, what to eat, what to do, what to say, even what to think.
Every thought involves choice in that we (choose to) assign a value judgment to it: positive, negative, neutral. These choices may be conscious or unconscious.
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Awareness that thought is operating is what matters - not the content.
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The theory is sound, but itâs not much use to people stuck in agonizing obsessions. For us normies (i.e. the neurotic masses) the content-tone of thoughts matters.
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The content matters when thinking is deliberate, as it is as I compose this reply. But when the stream of consciousness is moving obsessively and constantly, that movement matters more than whatever content is involved.
When one talks to anyone about what one has seen without saying âI have seen this or thatâ, and the other confirms, without confirming, that this is so, what choice is there for one to construct, define, or refine oneself?
By âmattersâ I mean the content-tone of our thoughts affects us psychologically.
Yes, and itâs distracting, whereas awareness of thought operating needlessly is not a distraction but observation of the fact that the mechanism of thought is not functioning properly. It is programed to operate constantly and reactively, and that creates and recreates the illusion of I, the thinker, so taking it personally is a mistake.
We canât assume that the illusion of the thinker was thoughtâs intention because itâs more likely just the effect of constant thought. If we must assume that humanity took a wrong turn, the wrong turn was depending on thought rather than on nothing, i.e., silence, emptiness.
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