In the first chapter of this book, Bohm discusses the differences between “making something in common” and “to create something in common”. This is his first of many examples of subtle changes in definitions of words and ideas. In this example, to make something in common is similar to a procedure. There is already an outline on how something is done. To create something in common is a new interpretation between what is said and what is understood. For example, if two people are having a conversation, they will end up with some kind collaboration of what was said between them. This collaboration is composed a type of interference that is caused by both parties not being able to fully understand the other. This is because of their own
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He states that you can’t truly get rid of thought, even if your mind classifies that thought being particularly bad. You can suppress that thought by not acting upon whatever emotion it might conjure up, but even by suppressing that thought you tend to beat yourself up in a sense by thinking about that thought even more in an attempt to get rid of it. The concept of the importance of suspension include the reactions that have been produced by thought would not be as significant as if they were not produced by thought. For example, if someone was aggressive they would not be as aggressive if this emotion was not connected with thought because emotions and thoughts go together like two puzzle pieces. They fit into each other to make a whole. Bohm goes onto say that to be able to suspend thought is the ability to not suppress the awareness of an emotion or suppress the action that emotion might provoke, but to be able to hold that image that is creating that specific emotion in limbo between both awareness and action. He says to accomplish this we would have to really observe our thought and go over certain thoughts and images that have caused a certain emotion to see the correlation between what particular thought causes a certain emotion and
He states that you can’t truly get rid of thought, even if your mind classifies that thought being particularly bad. You can suppress that thought by not acting upon whatever emotion it might conjure up, but even by suppressing that thought you tend to beat yourself up in a sense by thinking about that thought even more in an attempt to get rid of it. The concept of the importance of suspension include the reactions that have been produced by thought would not be as significant as if they were not produced by thought. For example, if someone was aggressive they would not be as aggressive if this emotion was not connected with thought because emotions and thoughts go together like two puzzle pieces. They fit into each other to make a whole. Bohm goes onto say that to be able to suspend thought is the ability to not suppress the awareness of an emotion or suppress the action that emotion might provoke, but to be able to hold that image that is creating that specific emotion in limbo between both awareness and action. He says to accomplish this we would have to really observe our thought and go over certain thoughts and images that have caused a certain emotion to see the correlation between what particular thought causes a certain emotion and