Is That Just Another Thought You're Having?

Buddhism says people suffer because they have self-referential thoughts that they don't really need to be having. In one of the suttas in the Majjima Nikhaya, Buddha says this generation is subject to cycles of rebirth. So it's habitual and you're doing it, but probably you don't need to be doing it as much as you are Doing it. And I think it's easy once you've had that experience to see how that could be the case.