There is no thinker behind your thoughts - just thoughts of a thinker. One thought Aka the complete mind itself divides itself making it seem like there is a thinker behind these thoughts but there isn't. There is merely one thought playing the part of the 'thinker' and one thought playing the part of the 'thought' which together we call 'thinking'. Each thought is recorded in the brain like we record data on a computer, giving the impression of a 'timeline' and 'space'. Space and time cannot exist with One Thought - One mind.
The Mind Aka as this one thought divides itself in the creation of life in the same way an embryo starts off as one cell and divides itself into millions of 'differentiated' cells.
You are the true Self projecting itself as the Awareness behind the Mind as the Witness. You remain hidden and unknown - unconscious until the mind is still enough to reflect YOU - your true Self. When that happens the Conscious Mind becomes conscious of you - as you - and the mind is tamed - you are liberated.
Can you see now how the illusion of mind is an illusion? Albeit a very clever and convincing illusion but an illusion, nonetheless. There is only One moment, One Mind, One Soul and One Spirit, which the mind differentiates. The Mind is the dream, and we as the true Self behind the Mind want to stay in the dream/mind but as a lucid dreamer that is the known Cause, not a sleeper subject to the dream.
This takes balance - having one foot in the dream and one out of it. Even though you are in the world as form, you are not of it as Spirit.
"There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found."
~ Walpola Rahula
- Love Tracy
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