What does it mean when people say “you are not your thoughts”?

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I’ve been trying to wrap my head around it for a while now, and yeah, you are the conscious being that hears your thoughts, but how “deep” does that conscience go?

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From a meditative perspective there is the thought and where that thought appears. Every sensation from a loud noise, sight and smell appears in the same place. Some people mean that you are the awareness which is separate from thought.

A more conventional meaning is that you can think things that don’t represent who you are deep down. Sure I’ve thought about slapping the screaming kid but I know that’s not how you raise a healthy person or support them to grow. I am not that errant thought.

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