Fixation

Fixation

It’s remarkable how much your thoughts about thoughts are concerning you.

Your consistent point seems to be that there are some thoughts which will somehow distance you from your true nature.

All that you do—and this includes thinking—is your true nature.

Your true nature is free of distinction: it is neither right nor wrong, good or bad. As a point of fact, it is not “true” or “false” either (“true,” in the sense that it is referred to, is “basic,” fundamental).

Since your (true) nature is your fundamental, essential nature, “you” are in no way apart from it: You are That.

When you do drop your concern that you are somehow divided from your true nature, you will cease to critique and classify your thoughts. (“Oh, no: there’s that thought again, that takes me away from my true nature!”)

You will instead merely witness, without judgment or anxiety, all the (previously-designated “good” and “bad”) thoughts that pass unhindered, in and out, on the screen of consciousness.

How could any of these (free) thoughts have any impact or importance when there is no value attached to them?

When the sages say, “Do nothing,” critiquing your thoughts is not “doing nothing.”