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Thought: A Product of Memory
Thought is always old
Thought is a product of memory.
It is the response of memory, which is your accumulated knowledge, experience, and background.
When you are asked a question, certain vibrations are set up, and from that memory, you respond. That is thought.
Thought is always old, obviously, because it responds from the past, therefore thought can never be free.
Thought can never solve our human problems
The more specialized, the more intellectual, the more thought becomes of serious import.
Thought itself must deny itself.
Thought itself sees what it is doing — right? — and therefore thought itself realizes that it has to come to an end.
Thought can never be truly free
Thought is the response of memory, which is always old.
Thought can never be free because it is always bound by the past.
It is like a prisoner in a cell.
The prisoner can never be truly free because he is always bound by the walls of his cell.
In order to be truly free, we must transcend…
