Thinking is happening
I try and pray most days; sometimes in the form of writing and then speaking aloud, other times by sitting on my bed with my eyes closed and observing.
Today, something interesting happened. I got to the section of my written mantras where I usually write: I am not my thoughts, my ego, my ‘reason’. Instead, I unconsciously wrote: I am not thoughts, my ego, my ‘reason’. I went back to the top of the page and started reading everything aloud. I reached that sentence and realised what had happened. The ‘my’ had disappeared from ‘thoughts’. I smiled at the most beautiful of Freudian slips.
Before re-reading, I crossed out all the ‘my’s and then spoke the line aloud:
I am not thoughts, ego or ‘reason’.
The removal of the possessive makes the declaration dramatically clear, exposing the illusion that thoughts, ego and reason constitute a separate identity. The fundamental nature of what we are is not the thoughts, ego or reasoning faculties that arise in our minds. These are patterns appearing in awareness, like eddies in a river. I hadn’t seen it so clearly and so simply before.
It could also be phrased: Thinking is happening.
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So then could our fundamental nature be consciousness?
Language is liberation and convolution! The simplicity of this is delightful, thank you