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the human appearence that one believes is themselves, is nothing but a simple thought that is kept alive and continued since it's been kept aware of.

Whenever you get intrusive thoughts about something you will NEVER commit, you have the power to immediately not identify with that thought.

This isn't something unusual is it? Hasn't it always been like that? Every time you get a fleeting thought that's out of your 'character' , you don't bother to entertain it anymore . You rather ignore it.

For example, say you get a sudden thought to possibly harm your dog, but then quickly retracts by ignoring the thought cause why in the world you would even spend a second thinking about something like that.

If you have the power to not identify with and ignore 'intrusive' thoughts, that alone proves that you are not the creator/source of the thoughts you receive but the reactor/observer.

Take tumblr for example, when you first sign in, you are met with new posts, that may or may not pique your interest. from posts with paintings that may not amuse you to posts about a movie that you've devoted your whole life into.

From there you choose to either interact with those posts or to ignore and scroll past them.

That is you building your algorithm.

In the same way, when empty thoughts with deceiving appearances come to you, and you respond to them and act as if they are your own, it ends up evoking a chain or corresponded thoughts that builds up this fake appearance of a character.

You keep reacting to thoughts that gives you attributes. Suddenly you are an introvert, who's lazy that suffers from crippling anxiety.

When how all that happens was because you chose to respond to fleeting thoughts that call you such.

So you who refers to yourself as 'I' is nothing but empty thoughts sewn together.

The only thing that stays intact is the consciousness who now is acting like this 'illusionary' character.