Thought to create thoughts

[loverofall]

I have a debate with a friend that believes you change your thoughts to be happy. Its a joke because he is one of the most unhappiest people I know. I have learned that true emotion (awareness) precedes thought. Now many of the afflicting emotions are thoughts driven by underlying fear.

I stumped him when I said what creates the thought to think happy thoughts. Its an interesting way to see thoughts arise from awareness and to even change our thoughts involves a thought I think, LOL.

I just reread this and it created a pause. Where does a thought come from to change your thoughts. It helps to see that the original thought does just arise out of nowhere. Maybe ZD has insight on this.

[enigma]

That which observes thought is the creator of thought, but it must be created in order to be observed. The source of thought cannot observe itself as an object of it's perception since it is the subject, and so 'it' expresses as thought and observes it's own expression. It is Your thought as the non-local, undifferentiated intelligence that is the source of ALL thought, but it is spontaneous since there can be no mediator between the intelligence that you are, and the thought that you perceive. In the absence of mediation, there is no 'distance' in any sense between the source and the expression. Hencely, you ARE the thought. You arise AS the thought. The thought cannot leave it's source and become other than the source, it can only appear so by virtue of becoming an appearance as that which appears.

[zendancer]

Precisely.

[divinity]

Your friend may be one who can teach that which he knows but cannot yet do himself. I totally agree that we change our thoughts/perception to be happy. I do it all the time. This is also a fun experiment with thought: Sit quietly and ask aloud: "What will my next thought be?" and see what happens.