Maybe I am missing something.
In my humble opinion....Thoughts DO exist. Thoughts are energy.
A thought can be measured in brainwave activity. In the movie "What the bleep do we know?" this point is illustrated as follows: It shows a person staring at a candle. The tester measures the brainwave activity. Then the tester asks the person to close their eyes and picture the candle in their mind and to think only of that candle....The brainwaves are again measured. The exact same brainwave activity is observed. Now granted I have not personally done this test to measure brainwave activity so I am only believing what I was shown in a movie...but I am going to assume that they are presenting data correctly.
Our memories exist...our collection of thoughts and memories... DO SERVE us. We learn and grow in relation to our past experiences. The conscious decisions we make is what keeps us in the moment. We need to be awake and alert and able to see, feel and hear the universal consciousness in the now. We can not repress or control our thoughts or our feelings...We can acknowledge and be aware of them and CHOOSE to either dwell on them or let them go.
How else would the telephone have been invented?
Why else are we practicing brainwave entrainment to create whole brain "thinking"?
Even so called "bad thoughts" have their place in teaching us and allowing us to CHOOSE how we want to act on these thoughts. It is up to us to be open enough to the collective consciousness on how to better serve us and the greater good by the actions we take regarding our thoughts in the "now".
So in my humble opinion it is not that the mind and its thoughts "don't exist" it is that we need to choose what we want to focus the mind and its thoughts on. And that meditation trains us to focus our minds to hopefully... better serve us and the greater good.
And practice makes this easier to do.
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