Thoughts on THOUGHT

It has been a really long time since I have discussed anything about thoughts. The "MIND" as we can understand is a bundle of thoughts. The MIND ceases to exist when there are no thoughts. Thoughts and mind are inter-related and depend on each other for their co-existence. On a subtle note, actually Thought and Mind are not two different things but the one and the same. Imagine no thoughts coming out from the vast sea of consciousness that we all live in. Well consciousness we will take up later in detail, but as of now, consciousness in brief is the knowledge or sense that I exist. This however is a very crude definition of Consciousness. If you observe the human mind, to be more exact, if you observe your own mind, you will see a chain of thoughts in a split second. The pictures of the thoughts are vivid if you just want to see them as they come. If there are no thoughts landing on the flexible wall of the mind, the mind is simply blank. It is the mind that gives form to the thoughts, or rather makes the visual play of the thoughts possible. So if we analyze things at more depth, the thoughts and the mind work in tandem and make the whole visualization process or the manifestation of the thought possible. One cannot work without the other. If the mind is absent, the thought cannot be manifested or visualized vividly and if the thoughts are absent, then mind has nothing to focus on and is idle. If the mind is IDLE it is as good as annihilation of the mind. Since both these entities are inter-related and cannot exist without the other counterpart, they are but one and the same entity, only thing is we are able to view them separately. One cannot distinctly say as to which is the cause and which is the effect because they are both inter linked and work together, giving rise to effects for every cause that is perceived as a cause by the mind or descends down as a thought in the form of cause. Well I need to seek more to understand things in a better way!!!