The “thought”…it’s an idea which appears in our mind. It’s also called a notion. Our world is the one in which these thoughts are turned into reality. People think of something they wish to have, for example cars, airplanes and electric appliances and so on, and they’ve made them into reality. All these products of modern civilization were derived from our “thoughts”
When we break the word “想念 (thought)” apart, the “想” is composed of “相 (facet / phase) and 心 (mind) and the next character “念” is composed with “今 (presence)” and “心 (mind)”. Therefore “想” means the facet of our mind. As for the “念”, it means the nature of our mind at present. So, “想念 (thought)” means something which we think of and they are created in the real world.
Also the thought (pronounce as omoi) can be heavy (pronounce also as omoi). I know why. Don’t you feel heavy in the head when you think of many things?
When you think too much, it’s true that your head feels heavy. When it becomes too heavy, you become not able to move. It’s like your “thought” is bound by “gravity”.
Last time, I talked about yoga. I heard that yoga has a power that can lighten the thoughts in our mind. When you think too much, you become not able to have good ideas. So you need to lighten your thoughts which have become too heavy…
Only when you feel lighter, you can get inspiration. When your mind becomes free from gravity, you can get those inspirations. Those come from the space. I think that because humans (人) have opened the gate (門) and become free from their old thoughts (old constraints) successfully, our civilization could make progress….for sure.
If all of us can go to space like astronauts do, we will become able to experience that there are no borders (frames and constraints) which we can see on the map not with your mind but with your body. All the thoughts that piled up in your mind could be gone (or get lightened)…I’m sure that when you feel your thoughts have become lightened, we can recognize that there are no frames (borders) that were drawn by humans in nature.