Unlike the verbal silence that is going on in the right brain, the vast majority of happenings in the left side are ideas about other ideas, or ideas about ideas about ideas, in a sort of self-generated bureaucratic machine. Of course, these stories and interpretations are all abstractions, so one could say that what is going on in the left brain is countless images reflected in water with no substance. Or, as a Zen Buddhist might say, “the mind is like water.”
