In response to your other replies on this thread, as well as the one above:

As I see it, sensation, in concert with memory, experience, expectation—with, in short, 'thought'—reveals our true nature. Who and what we are is expressed as a totality.

For example the sensation, on the hand, of a flowing creek, is not the same as that of a hot bath. Yet they are both ‘water.’ It is only given memory, experience, and thought, that both entirely unique purely sensory experiences 'become' of ‘water.’

Water, in short, is a thought!

When we limit sensory input, yes, certainly, it can reveal who we are, at that moment with limited sensory input. But are we getting closer to our ‘true nature’?

To me, that’s like a scientist seeking to learn the ‘true nature’ of water while never removing it from the bathtub. Never in a creek, in the sea, never at high pressure, or low… How much of the ‘true nature’ of water is really revealed when limited to a bathtub?

Without thought, how much of our own true nature is really revealed when taking a bath?