Drop Thought

      So I am going to catch myself without making another mistake of living in time. Thought is always in time. So I can break thought and then there will be a pause in which there is no thought at all and in that pause, I am free. And when you do this for the first time, when you really see that you can be without any thought at all,  you’ll want to work on yourself every minute because you have sighted the way out at last. It is only thinking that keeps it in place. It is only thought that keeps it in place.

      The task is not to just get it out of place but to throw it out altogether, so that I can see that self-defeating thought and then say all right I saw it. I am not going to linger on it so as to feel myself as a great sinner. I am going to drop thought. I would say that the most frightening thought that ever comes to a human being is the idea of coming to an end of thought. Because when there is no thinking anymore, you cease to exist which, thank heaven, is what you were looking for all along.

      We are afraid to look at it because of what would happen if I let go of my success, my reputation of being the nice man. What would happen is that you would be out of the cage. But we don’t know this. We have it exactly backwards. What we value is ruining us. And what we reject could save us. It is best to reverse our viewpoint.