When A Stapler Is Picked Up From My Desk, Do I Need A Belief That It Is An Object For It To Be An Object?

[Joseph Maynor]

I just picked up a stapler from my desk and it caused a stir in my beliefs -- a little goose to the ole ideology, as it were.  It seems like I can know the stapler is an object without believing it is, because I don't need to cling to any thought to perceive that it is a separate object -- my senses reveal this.  Picking up stapler makes the stapler a thing.  Do it yourself while in a state of Being.  This is so weird because this would suggest that the mind doesn't create (all) objects -- that (some) objects exist in Being which are not created by the Mind-Matrix.

Where exactly in the process of picking up a stapler is the mind suggesting that it is a thing?  It seems as though my perceptions are suggesting it is a thing.  Once I hold it in my hand, I don't even need a belief to *know* that this thing is a thing -- It's felt as such seeming independent of Mind-Matrix interference.

But this is all belief-stuff, Mind-Matrix stuff too -- because when I am in flow, I pick up the stapler without individuating at all.  Thinking of a thing as a thing is a thought.

Edited September 3, 2017 by Joseph Maynor