A person is walking and hears the sound of a bell. Immediately the person's discriminating mind evaluates the sound as beautiful or not. The person distinguishes the sound as a church bell or some other kind of bell. Ideas associated with similar sounds heard in the past begin to intrude upon the person's mind. These memories and the present sound are compared and analyzed. With each judgment the experience of pure hearing becomes fainter and fainter until the person no longer hears the sound but hears only their thoughts about it.
We do this with all our senses.
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