The Only Thing ...

You think yourself to be a thought, and then because you think yourself to be a thought, you think you can lose stillness.

Then you think another thought about how to recover what has been lost, and then another thought about your success or failure in that recovery, and then another thought about how great or how horrible you are because you have succeeded or failed.

All the while there is this simple, present stillness that is aware of the whole play. It experiences the play, experiences the suffering of the play, yet is ultimately untouched by the play.

The only thing that separates you from recognizing the truth of who you are as eternal stillness is following some thought that says you are not that.

~ From: The Diamond In Your Pocket, by Gangaji. www.gangaji.org