The Illusion of Thought
THAT is all there is. You are everything, that is love, and you are no thing, that is freedom. Everything “you”, the illusion of the separate self created by thought, sees is but a manifestation of That. To see the truth of this, one must be free of the illusion of a separate self, which cannot happen by the means of any external action since anything you do, is perpetuating the false illusion of the self, through thought which assumes there is an I which is doing, seeing, thinking, etc. If one brings attention inwards and watches this movement of thought, one will see that there is no thinker separate from thought. The thinker does not exist independent of thought, it is thought itself which creates the thinker. This happens simultaneously. By seeing this, not merely in theory but in actuality one realises the sense of self was an illusion, a divisive construct of thought, which separated one from everyone and everything around. It is all one and it is that which the saints referred to as God.
As one carries around this sense of self, he or she suffers. If the ‘I’ in “I am suffering” is known to be unreal then who suffers? This suffering is a blessing in disguise, as it is this which turns people inwards when everything external feels futile. The duality of life dissolves. Concepts of good and bad vanish, things simply happen. To see this is to be free from all suffering. As suffering exists only until the sufferer exists. When the ego vanishes, all that is left is THAT or God or Love, the nameless of a thousand names. It is synonymous, as long as there is ego, THAT cannot be, and when THAT is, the ego cannot remain. It is for this to be revealed that many pray, for the “me” to end so that, that which is the TRUTH can be. It is then that one realizes that everything simply unfolds without a doer, no “me” or “you.” It just happens. It is then, when one sits and laughs about one’s worries.
The original purpose of religion was to guide people towards this truth. There is only that, then how can there be your god and mine, when there is no you and me, there is no us and them, there is just that.