Thoughts arise and fall as flowers live and wilt. Stars fade over eons in the night sky and clouds pass and change.
Everything is changing all the time. Thoughts come and go. But who is thinking them?
Some people think liberation is a person with no thoughts, or that to achieve enlightenment one has to have no thoughts! But who would have no thoughts and a quiet mind?
Thoughts happen anyway. No one is "thinking" them. When there is an illusion of self, the self thinks it controls the thoughts. "I must not have these thoughts," or "I must think good thoughts," et cetera.
In liberation, it is recognized that all of life is happening anyway. Thoughts arise with no self that claims them. The idea of self is only another thought, perhaps a more dominant one, one that feels separated from the whole, life, movement/stillness.
To slow down thoughts is mindfulness, awareness, but who is aware? The myth of the self has been seen through, and thoughts still arise, but for no one. Rather like a sea of waves coming and going. Being aware of this is separation. Thoughts are in free fall.
Trying not to think or attempting to quiet the mind is still someone trying to get to wholeness, peace, or awakening. But no one awakens because there is no one there to awaken or be still. There is only stillness and wholeness with thoughts appearing in it.
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