# The Tree

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-09-02

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If the proverbial tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?

If I can “hear” it in my mind, it does.

If I “hear” nothing in my mind, it does not.

The question leads to an image of a tree being conjured in the mind.

And the issue of sound is resolved in the mind.

We think-or at least I think- of a “world” in my head and a world outside of my head.

But the birds chirping, the breeze flowing, the waves crashing….those are all in my head, in my mind.

Whatever I am thinking of is in my mind.

And what I am not thinking of, by virtue of my non-thought about it, is also in my mind.

Existence is a function of the mind.

And that makes my head feel lighter and heavier at the same time.

A belt tightens around a cloud.

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*Originally published on [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/the-tree)*