Who is this ‘you’
that wants to be enlightened? Can ‘you’ as the thinking mind free yourself from
yourself? This is a variation of the famous bootstraps paradox. You can’t lift
yourself up from your own bootstraps; it’s impossible. Likewise, the thinking
mind can’t untangle itself from itself, it’s equally impossible. Fortunately,
it doesn’t have to. Freedom isn’t found as a result of the thinking mind thinking
its way out of itself. Freedom comes by letting awareness of thought slowly
dissolve thought. (Freeing the brain from attachment to thought, allowing it to
function naturally and effortlessly.)
So who is this ‘you’
that wants to be enlightened? Why it’s a sticky ball of goo, clinging to itself
as not to come unglued. This is true, the thoughts that are masquerading as ‘you’
are just sort of clumped together forming a sticky ball of goo. Drop that
sticky ball of ‘you’ into a warm bath of light and insight – feel it dissolve
into bliss . . . and then into ‘this.’
Tallis
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