The thinker can't escape its own thought. It is impossible. And yet we spend most of our lives trying to do just that.
Two people arguing with each other each believe that they know what reality is. But there cannot be two different realities. There is only one reality.
There are I's that are trained in the art of combat, and there are I's that are trained in the art of compromise. Each I is seamlessly handed off to another I. "If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
To be divided is to be identified with one thought after another without knowing it. "If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."
Every house that is divided is in opposition to itself, and anything that opposes itself falls into dissolution and perishes.
You can't have authority over anything that you are identified with. When you are identified, you are divided, and self-command is not possible in a divided state.
You can be in conflict and not know that you are in conflict because that conflicted I is trying to figure out what to do.
Each I can only tell its particular story and speak to you in its own particular voice. The tone of every I is different.
We are not the originators of the I's that appear in our consciousness. The deception is that we think we are each I that appears.
You can be carried away by thought to your own destruction. But you don't see it in the moment because you are identified with each thought.
You feed the thoughts that you don't want through your attention and identification. The nature that identifies produces a sense of self and then doesn't want the experience it has produced.
Key Question: Can the "thinker" fix the thought that it is troubled by?
Thought blames conditions for the unwanted experience. But the unwanted experience is the content of the thought, not the condition.
Is the solution to resist or to try to fix each I that appears? No, the solution is to see each I for what it is.
Like a giant stinging insect, each "Fly-By I" carries its own venom. If we knew that each I carried a poison, would we grab onto them? And yet we do grab onto these Fly-By I's every time we identify.
Learn to watch the Fly-By I's. This legion of I's belongs to single unconscious nature that we are not conscious of. There is freedom in letting the I's fly by.
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