For example, I can image that I am playing piano or bass, and actually practice the instrument in my head.
After this, do you feel like you've actually, in all your physically believable reality, have practiced the instrument? (I say yes.) Are you then suddenly embarrassed, maybe, to realize it was your mind and not your body that was vividly engaged in the activity? (I have been.) Some may think you imagined the practice and therefore you never practiced because you physically didn't have possession of the saxophone...
Spaceweaver, I would deduct and ask What could possibly happen if we let thoughts and everything else be free? Excessive notions of ownership, especially valued individual possession of 'things', such as thought creations, is a product of Capitalism, which leads to a misunderstanding and abuse of the extension of ownership to the self. In which case either our body owns our mind and if not owned by our own account, we are owned by another's. 'Possess' and 'possession' are words to eliminate from our language because if I am the thought being thought now, by taking full possession of the thought and disposing of it as pleased, I am in fact depriving one part of myself of any rights.
Richard, After this, do you feel like you've actually, in all your physically believable reality, have practiced the instrument? (I say yes.) Are you then suddenly embarrassed, maybe, to realize it was your mind and not your body that was vividly engaged in the activity? (I have been.) Some may think you imagined the practice and therefore you never practiced because you physically didn't have possession of the saxophone...
Spaceweaver, I would deduct and ask What could possibly happen if we let thoughts and everything else be free? Excessive notions of ownership, especially valued individual possession of 'things', such as thought creations, is a product of Capitalism, which leads to a misunderstanding and abuse of the extension of ownership to the self. In which case either our body owns our mind and if not owned by our own account, we are owned by another's. 'Possess' and 'possession' are words to eliminate from our language because if I am the thought being thought now, by taking full possession of the thought and disposing of it as pleased, I am in fact depriving one part of myself of any rights.