What We Are
Lo Que Somos
An invitation to notice how the sense of a separate self is only thought, and to rest in simple awareness.
What We Are
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,
but something that might be deeper or more subtle,
as if pulling in words, pulling towards the center,
an attempt to fit.
The narrative of thought
Narratives of thought as a very intricate, complex world view,
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 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 who seems to be here
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 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.
Closer than it seems
It's closer than it seems.
It might feel like something is at a distance, in time,
but 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.
Knowing without a knower
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.