"A Share: Thoughts vs Feelings"

"What Comes First: Thoughts or Feelings?"

Q: Do thoughts come first or feelings?

A: Thoughts come first. Sensations are what we label and define as feelings.

Q: Sensations are?

A: Any bodily response—heat, tightness, tingles, movement. Pure and raw.

Q: So, do you mean the feeling of fear is a creation of thoughts?

A: Yes. Thoughts are habit patterns, formed from experiences—since the womb or our first breath in form.

The more we associate a sensation with a label, the stronger the loop becomes.

Fear and excitement share the same sensations—what makes them different is how thoughts interpret them.

Example:

A sudden encounter with a lion might trigger fear in most people.

But a person never conditioned to fear a lion might see it with awe or curiosity.

Then it’s the lion's own response—does it react to your fear? Or simply walk on, continuing its path?

Everything is response and reflection.

Q: Wow, never thought of it that way. So, how do these thoughts begin—where do they arise from?

A: Thoughts are born when an illusion is born.

All creations are illusions. With every creation, a thought attaches.

Let me ask you this: Are thoughts an illusion?

Just a Yes or No.

Q: Yes… one can say so.

A: Yes, thoughts are an illusion.

They attach themselves to sensations in the physical world.

Without sensation, no thought could be born.

And sensations are always happening here in this physical realm.

That’s why:

When creation is born, thought is born.

And all creation… is an illusion.

Thoughts are an illusion.

Beyond that illusion is thoughtlessness—stillness.

And stillness is the closest doorway to the Absolute… the Nothingness.

That moment in meditation, when no thought arises…

You are one with Stillness. You are beyond.

Q: I’m trying to understand, but I can feel you'd say, “Meditate and know from within—let the answers arise in you.”

A: Hahaha… yes, and I’ll also add this—

Beyond meditation, begin practicing internal silence.

Overthinking is just a habit.

Choose to be the observer, the experiencer, not the thinker.

Q: As though I can just choose to be the observer?

A: Yes.

In the physical world, everything is repetition.

A habit. A thought.

You can choose silence.

Q: Ohh… I better meditate more.

Blessings.