Watch

Go away thoughts
Why do you plague me?
I know you do no good
Cause anxiety, pain and confusion
Making me feel low and scared
I don't want you
Go away
You are the cause of my despair
And yet
And yet
It is so hard
You are always rearing your ugly head
Whenever I feel I am on my way up you pop
Often on the most trivial thing
Before I know it
You've trapped me again in the whirling torment of thought
The harder I fight
The more I get entangled
It is not the way
Cease fighting thought
In doing so you only give it strength
The I doing the fighting is another illusion manufactured by thought
They go hand in hand
Both feeding off each other
How can I defeat thought when it is thought
It can't
Only battle endlessly with itself giving strength to both
These are not words
These are facts
Born out by my own experience
What to do then?
Nothing
It seems hard but I have to do nothign
Aything I do is done by the I
I is thought
Thought is I
Hence anything I do will only give fuel to the fire
By doing I mean consciously with the mind
With the thought 'I am doing'
This only inflates the mind
So do nothing consciously
Make no plans
Don't judge yourself
Get angry or blame
Carry around guilt and thoughts 'I should have done this, that'
Let it all go
Of no matter 
Surrender
You do not exist as the I
Don't fight it
Give in
Let go of the cliff edge
Stop swimming against the current
Let go
Surrender
Simply watch your life and your mind
No comment
No interference
Just watch
Watch as the sky watches the clouds float by
No matter what appears before your mind
Anger, fear, pain, horror, evil, joy, happinnes, pleasure
Watch it all
Awareness will grow, grow and grow
The mind and the I will quieten
No more fuel added
Stripped of their energies the whirling motion will slow
Glimpses of Truth
The Absolute
Will shine through
Be careful now
Do not grasp for them
Keep watching
Don't desire the light
Desire nothing
Keep watching
Spontaneoulsy the mind will cease
The I will collapse
Future and past will cease to be
Time and space will cease to be
Ignorance will vanish
And the Truth will be seen in all its glory
But don't desire this
Sit and watch it
Keep watching.


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