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**wllsqyuipknczx** · 07-28-2012, 03:59 AM

It's ever so true that we all have an internal dialogue that goes on most of the time in everyday life. This concept has often been looked at by other writers.

If the thesis of the article (I've read it all, not just the piece reproduced here) is "change the dialogue, it will change your experience", then I really cannot swallow it. It's a tautology. Your experience provides the foundation for the dialogue, the dialogue is made of your experience.

The conscious mind doesn't create the dialogue in the mind, it comes from the unconscious, and that's (almost by definition) something that you don't consciously control.

I'm not particularly a Stephen Bachelor 'fan'. He's OK but not very Buddhist in my opinion, despite all the books he's written and all the study he's done on Buddhism. So possibly that affects my judgement.

07-28-2012, 03:59 AM	#2
wllsqyuipknczx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 462 Senior Member	It's ever so true that we all have an internal dialogue that goes on most of the time in everyday life. This concept has often been looked at by other writers. If the thesis of the article (I've read it all, not just the piece reproduced here) is "change the dialogue, it will change your experience", then I really cannot swallow it. It's a tautology. Your experience provides the foundation for the dialogue, the dialogue is made of your experience. The conscious mind doesn't create the dialogue in the mind, it comes from the unconscious, and that's (almost by definition) something that you don't consciously control. I'm not particularly a Stephen Bachelor 'fan'. He's OK but not very Buddhist in my opinion, despite all the books he's written and all the study he's done on Buddhism. So possibly that affects my judgement.
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