If we know our own thoughts,
then we are not our thoughts.
Our thoughts arise in us,
we don’t arise in a thought.
then we are not our thoughts.
Our thoughts arise in us,
we don’t arise in a thought.
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If we know 'We know' our thoughts,
then
we are ultimately prior to knowing,
before or beyond consciousness itself
– consciousness being just a high concept.
then
we are ultimately prior to knowing,
before or beyond consciousness itself
– consciousness being just a high concept.
We don’t have to make any effort to be.
We know we are .
That is enough.
The biggest mistake,
the true original sin,
is that we mistake ourselves to be the thought ‘I am.’
But this is only a thought.
We know we are .
That is enough.
The biggest mistake,
the true original sin,
is that we mistake ourselves to be the thought ‘I am.’
But this is only a thought.
The thought ‘I am’ is the beginning of the end,
the end of the beginning.
A thought is no more real than a shadow.
Nisargadatta Maharaj says,
‘The shadow cannot be there without the substance
– but the shadow is not the substance.’
the end of the beginning.
A thought is no more real than a shadow.
Nisargadatta Maharaj says,
‘The shadow cannot be there without the substance
– but the shadow is not the substance.’
All thoughts are shadows and therefore
we cannot be a thought.
If we observe our thoughts,
even casually,
we find that one thought replaces another
in an endless parade
– ‘I am this,
I am not this,
I want this, I don’t want this,
they are this, they are not this,’ etcetera.
So ignore the thoughts
and be that which we truly are
– identify with that which knows all thought.
we cannot be a thought.
If we observe our thoughts,
even casually,
we find that one thought replaces another
in an endless parade
– ‘I am this,
I am not this,
I want this, I don’t want this,
they are this, they are not this,’ etcetera.
So ignore the thoughts
and be that which we truly are
– identify with that which knows all thought.
We think ‘I am.’ What is that?
Exactly where is the ‘I’
that we cling to so dearly,
that we stake our body
-mind identity on?
Where is it now?
Exactly where is the ‘I’
that we cling to so dearly,
that we stake our body
-mind identity on?
Where is it now?