“In relative reality, thoughts have tremendous power.
Thoughts collapse the quantum wave of near-infinite possibilities and bring the
subject of those thoughts into manifestation. Powerful thoughts arise, but
there is no thinker anywhere to be found.”
Response to Comments:
Relative reality" was a poor choice of words. I am
pointing towards life as it is lived in duality. But everything arises and
passes away within Awareness, so there really is only the ultimate reality of
nondual presence.
Sorry.
As for the thinker, well, that really is the crux of the
matter, isn't it?
This was the ultimate realization of the Buddha and of every
other sage in history. There is no self. When you try to find the thinker, all
you come up with is individual thoughts, perceptions, and feelings.
There is no subject or entity that can be found. Its
presence is ASSUMED, but not actual. Thoughts, feelings, and perceptions simply
occur. But they do not occur to ANYONE.
The easiest way to confirm this in your own experience is to
notice what happens to the "assumed person" or “you” or the “thinker”
when there are no thoughts occurring in the mind.
What will probably be noticed is that when there are no
thoughts, there is also no person or entity. But because the mind is so rarely
free of thought, this fact of the absence of a thinker is usually not noticed.
Now, why make such a
big deal out of the absence of the thinker?
Because it is the assumed existence of the separate self
that is the source of all suffering, doubt, and questioning.
All of these things begin to fade away and lose their power
when the idea of the self is challenged and found empty.
This is not a doctrine or belief, although many
“nondualists” or “neo-advaitins” turn it into a dogmatic statement without
having done the requisite noticing. It is only valuable when noticed directly.
So please don’t take my word for ANY of this. Don’t accept
or reject it on intellectual or logical grounds. If you think you are a self or
a thinker, fine.
I would just suggest that you not take it for granted that
you are, but actually prove it one way or another in direct experience.
Pause thought for a moment and see what happens to “you.”
^__^
ps/smoh
