Today's lesson says: These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].
Immediately, I think of "meditation" and how when you meditate, you may watch your thoughts "float" across the screen of your mind, and the trick is to do so without attaching anything to the thoughts. Essentially because on some level you know your thoughts ...are just thoughts. Until you attach to them, and perhaps even act upon them, they are indeed meaningless.
This definitely gets tough when you get into certain "categories" of thought, from the extremely logical and rational ones on over to the deeply emotional ones. It seems hard to accept that a thought which demonstrates "fact" is not meaningful on the one hand, and on the other, it seems challenging to accept that a thought imbued with deep love, for example, is not also meaningful!
Like the previous lessons, I believe the practice is to help you suspend judgement and refrain from attachment. Allowing yourself the ability to see things "just as they are." A further description within the text of this lesson says: "The aim here is to train you in the first steps toward the goal of separating the meaningless from the meaningful. It is a first attempt in the long-range purpose of learning to see the meaningless as outside you, and the meaningful within. It is also the beginning of training your mind to recognize what is the same and what is different."
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