Do We Choose Our Thoughts?

"We [eventually] have to come to the conclusion whether we are in the materialist perspective or whether we are in the non-dualist perspective, in both cases we have to come to the conclusion that thoughts are cosmic events. They are generated by a Reality which is bigger than the separate individual we believe to be, and that they are cosmic events like the rain or the snow or a hurricane. And therefore the limited entity that claims authorship of the thought and claims to be the one who has made the decision is an imposter because it claims the authorship of something it has not created. It comes after the fact. It wasn't present when the decision was being made. The decision just came."

Related dialogues: The First Identification that takes place prior to a Thought    • Видео   & Investigate The Truth of a Thought    • Видео  

(From Temecula dialogue with Francis Lucille 2014 04 27)

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