Thinking....(contd.)

Arun - So, the conclusion is that all thoughts are stale? If you don't have any new experience, no new thought is possible? Does that mean we are always living in the past?
Me - Living not in the past, but in a continuum where all moments reflect other moments past. The future will be a present that was in your past.
The future is a present that was in your past. Fate dangles a contingent carrot of new or newer shades of past experience, based on planetary position. Rebirth is seen as penance for past sins. The present continues as observation and accumulation of sensory input which, if reflected on, can create knowledge...else trivia that crops up later as deja vu moments. Reflection is the start of new experience and new thoughts emerge from application of knowledge so acquired.

To practice what you preach one must create opportunity. If that comes in an extant situation, you are held up as a role model. If it results in new paradigms, you are an explorer. When you preach in the hope that others will practice and maybe see the world in new light, you are a philosopher. Thought can beget action or inventive action or an anticipation of action.
Arun - Tell me if I'm wrong - all thoughts belong to the past. The past is dead. What is dead, is unreal. We are living in an unreal world. Please be short and simple.
Me - Thinking is a current activity whose content is largely influenced by the past, though not absolutely. The past may be unreal now, but it's not a hallucination. It's just dead, but kept alive in memory by thoughts. They are unreal to the present reality but are the primary framework to understanding one's current situation. New experience provides new thought and a basis for cutting free from the unreal past framework, where the credo usually is practice makes perfect and, an acceptance of what is. Living really, means doing differently....
Its tough to be short and simple, more so when one has all the time in the world!
Reflect at leisure. Understand that assimilating thought takes as much or more time than generating it!!

Time and spatial reality is based on physical laws and and is governed by temporal cause and effect. All other realities stem from metaphysical exploration of this reality. And issues of real and unreal reality crop up. The metaphysical is but hypothetical in the real world perspective and from that standpoint is also unreal. Which suits it!!

Does thinking begin or end with a conclusion?
Does arrival signify the beginning or end of a journey?
Are emotions the start or endpoint of feeling?
So too thinking.....