Kris,
I agree. I call the thought world 'delusion' - past, present and future. As
far as I can tell there are no thoughts of the present. There is only
experience in the present, and experience preceeds thought.
...Bill!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Kristopher Grey <kris@...> wrote:
>
> On 8/27/2013 12:14 AM, SURESH JAGADEESAN wrote:
> > Stress starts the moment you move away from now into the thought world
> > of past and future.
>
> The "thought world" can only exist "now".
> Thoughts, arising and passing, now.
> Thought, is an aspect of now.
>
> Another word for what you are describing as "the thought world of past
> and future" is simply 'imagination', which can only presents as a
> problem to the extent you believe it to be separate or otherwise
> different from "now". In an of itself, such thinking is just thinking. A
> useful survival mechanism. Realizing this, it serves. Deluded by this,
> it hinders. "Now".
>
> KG
>
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