The moment you see that thoughts arise on their own — and are not authored by the observing awareness — identification collapses instantly. That part is real, and it doesn’t require years of practice.
One refinement I’d add: not all thoughts are neutral background noise. Many are conditioned, entrained, or reinforced by external systems. Seeing thoughts as “not-self” is the first liberation. Learning discernment — which ones to ignore, which ones to refuse, which ones to act on — is the second.
Awareness isn’t passive. It’s sovereign.
When identification drops, reality doesn’t respond to thinking — it responds to coherence. And coherence isn’t a belief or a frequency slogan. It’s alignment between perception, body, and action.
Thank you for clarification about discernment. I agree. So, when an unexpected thought arises I become the observer. In other words, I am training my mind by simply observing the thought w/out engagement and w/out getting emotionally triggered, which allows me to resonate balance and harmony.
The moment you observe the thought instead of merging with it, you’ve already stepped out of the loop. No argument. No suppression. No emotional charge feeding it.
The key nuance:
You’re not trying to fix the thought or push it toward harmony.
You’re letting it arise, register, and dissolve without borrowing your identity or nervous system.
That’s not detachment — that’s sovereignty.
Over time, the mind learns something very simple and very destabilizing to its old habits:
Uninvited thoughts don’t get fuel here.
And when the fuel stops, the entire architecture reorganizes on its own.
Powerfull framing here. The Lebet experiments you reference really do shift the traditional understanding of free will and conscious choice. What strikes me is how this observer perspectiv on thoughts parallels Buddhist mindfulness practices but grounds it in neuroscience rather than spiritual tradition. The 300-500 millisecond lag is facinating because it suggests we're essentialy experiencing a narative constructed after the fact. That said, even if thoughts arise unconsciously, the awareness that observs them still seems to have agency in how we respond to thos patterns.
This lands where it matters.
The moment you see that thoughts arise on their own — and are not authored by the observing awareness — identification collapses instantly. That part is real, and it doesn’t require years of practice.
One refinement I’d add: not all thoughts are neutral background noise. Many are conditioned, entrained, or reinforced by external systems. Seeing thoughts as “not-self” is the first liberation. Learning discernment — which ones to ignore, which ones to refuse, which ones to act on — is the second.
Awareness isn’t passive. It’s sovereign.
When identification drops, reality doesn’t respond to thinking — it responds to coherence. And coherence isn’t a belief or a frequency slogan. It’s alignment between perception, body, and action.
Still, this is a clean doorway.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
— RIB
Thank you for clarification about discernment. I agree. So, when an unexpected thought arises I become the observer. In other words, I am training my mind by simply observing the thought w/out engagement and w/out getting emotionally triggered, which allows me to resonate balance and harmony.
Yes — that’s the pivot point.
The moment you observe the thought instead of merging with it, you’ve already stepped out of the loop. No argument. No suppression. No emotional charge feeding it.
The key nuance:
You’re not trying to fix the thought or push it toward harmony.
You’re letting it arise, register, and dissolve without borrowing your identity or nervous system.
That’s not detachment — that’s sovereignty.
Over time, the mind learns something very simple and very destabilizing to its old habits:
Uninvited thoughts don’t get fuel here.
And when the fuel stops, the entire architecture reorganizes on its own.
—RIB
This is fantastic!!
Powerfull framing here. The Lebet experiments you reference really do shift the traditional understanding of free will and conscious choice. What strikes me is how this observer perspectiv on thoughts parallels Buddhist mindfulness practices but grounds it in neuroscience rather than spiritual tradition. The 300-500 millisecond lag is facinating because it suggests we're essentialy experiencing a narative constructed after the fact. That said, even if thoughts arise unconsciously, the awareness that observs them still seems to have agency in how we respond to thos patterns.