Thought Pretending to be Awareness
Unconsciously
we are conditioned to believe we would struggle to understand ourselves if we didn’t think. That somehow we wouldn’t
know who we were unless we mentally labeled ourselves and other people. To the thought-led mind, the idea of not thinking
is terrifying.
When we awake to the notion that
we don’t need thought quite so much and a further intelligence is readily available instead; one that shines an alternative
and enriching light on who we are without judgment and limited belief, you might be able to guess how, at first, our thoughts
tend to react.
Its initial reactions are
to stand its ground and protect its position, power, status and beliefs. Consequently,
it tends to revert back to primitive survival modes, creating reactions of resistance, doubt, defensiveness, attack, and considerable
fear, as well as some criticism against the notion of Awareness – such as demanding measurement.
Most commonly, out of fear, it makes phony attempts to understand and manufacture
its own version of Awareness by the only means it knows how - through thought, labels, judgments, definitions, intellectual
discussion, proof and measurement.
Further, thought creates its own a phony version
of the Now, which it sometimes calls, 'Living for the moment'. But this is not the present moment at all because this version
is about resisting and escaping the present moment by running into the future; a place that doesn't exist.
The irony is we can never connect or re-connect to our Awareness through
the act of thinking. However cunning or subtle our minds are in trying, it never truly succeeds because Awareness
is a consciousness within all of us that doesn’t need or rely on thought.
