Shifting Allegiance from Thinking to Being

Going beyond the thinking—the knowing yourself as thinking—is going beyond the engagement with the world through justification and doubt. All thinking is a world that rotates around a “you”. A you that either needs to be justified or doubted, and that is the suffering that we do have choice to go beyond. The absence of suffering is a peace that already is. The absence of suffering is the absence of your story trying to play itself out in the imaginary you that is either justified or doubted. The imaginary you indeed lives in the play of the mind and it responds to its own world of what it thinks your “me” needs to survive. It wants a purpose so it can justify being here, and it neglects to realize that you are already here. The peace beyond understanding is exactly this. The peace in the realization that you are already without your doubt and justification and when this is settled upon there is a landscape that you can rest in beyond the thinking mind.

There is no actual need to prove yourself here. There is no attempt at justification or denial of your version of “me” that makes you more or less here, that makes you matter more or less. This is good news for the freedom that you dream about, and this is bad news or suffering for the reinforced identity that would fear that it’s not needed whatsoever to make the sun rise and the stars shine.

Shifting allegiance from knowing yourself through thoughts to knowing yourself through Being is giving yourself permission to feel yourself without your story. The softness of acceptance that meets you, just because, without needing you to prove yourself worthy is the world we live in. You are already here. And any story that threatens your peace by asking you to justify or doubt your existence is simply a lie. It is an attempt to claim you outside of life itself…and that hurts.