The Perceiver Is a Thought
El Perceptor Es un Pensamiento
An invitation to notice that the thinker and perceiver at the center of experience are just passing thoughts, not who you truly are.
The Perceiver Is a Thought
Notice where your attention goes.
Notice all of the sense of contraction or discomfort, if any.
Just let all of your experience be as it is,
and notice any sense of contraction, but not of the body.
No need to focus on physical tensions,
not as something that might be deeper or more subtle,
as if pulling, in other words, pulling towards the center,
an attempt to fit.
The narrative of thought
Narratives of thought as a very intricate, complex worldview, possibly,
a constant mapping of the world, of yourself,
as sensations happen, as the body is breathing,
sounds are happening, as color, shapes and forms are appearing.
As the mind is creating an understanding,
an interpretation of what everything is,
or, shout, what is the world?
And pull inwards towards this sense of subject,
that which is my sensations, my thoughts.
My world, my past, my future.
As if it was more than thoughts.
As if it was a documentary and not fiction,
as if it was real and not imagination,
just interpretation,
a hundred percent of it, all of it, fiction.
The one at the center
And at the heart of this assumption,
someone, something here, separate, independent.
The doer of this, the thinker, the decider.
All of that is also part of the imagination,
part of the interpretation,
part of the narrative, the story.
Just seeing what is here
Just keep noticing,
keep seeing where is attention going,
don't try to change anything, absolutely nothing.
Nothing needs to change, just seeing what is here.
It's closer than it seems.
It might feel like something is at a distance.
In time, that is more thoughts.
What you're looking for can be found, but not in time.
Not tomorrow, not in the next moment,
it will never be found tomorrow.
Finding is the seeing what is here.
And seeing what is not here,
what appears to be a subject,
a separate receiver, thinker, doer, decider.
It's just thoughts.
No knower, no perceiver
Decisions are made by mystery.
Thoughts are known without a knower.
Sounds are heard, no perceiver.
The perceiver is an interpretation, a very subtle thought.
What we are does not need a thinker.
What we are does not need a perceiver.
What we are does not need a decider.
But doing will be done.
Decisions will be made.
The conviction to think
Notice the conviction to think,
to focus on the narrative of thoughts.
To hold on to the image of the thinker,
the believer of one's own thoughts.
In believing the thoughts, the emotions are stirred.
Any emotional discomfort can be traced to a belief.
There is just pure knowing, pure seeing.
The hearer is in the sounds,
without sounds, no hearer.
When thoughts pause, there is no thinker.
Without perceptions, without perceiver.
When sounds appear, there's just the sounds.
When thoughts appear, there's just the thoughts.
Looking directly
Notice this now in your experience.
Look directly.
Sound appears.
The mind names, interprets,
the mind interprets voice, words,
and imagines the subject hearing, I hear that person.
It's made of thoughts.
What we are is something else entirely.
That sense of beingness, that sense of I am, is real,
but it is not a thinker, not a perceiver.
It's reality itself.