05/18/2026
THOUGHT, BELIEF, AND ENJOYING NON-PERSONAL REALITY.
~ Dualizing thought comes from the Problem Maker - the conditioned mind with its MEmory; from the mind-made 'me' with 'my' cultivated opinions masked as 'knowledge' and 'feelings' which seem fundamental to personal beliefs that variously, if not completely, comfort our born insecurities to not only survive but to surely assure we will thrive.
Of course, that daily struggle to survive is natural and essential, but the appetite to 'thrive' often gets distorted with expansionary notions of more and more; with corrupted convictions that insist enough will never be enough. When power and greed take over what we really need, there's no peace, no joy, yes? When, as a lifer in prison (who might have been in a boardroom) said, "You need to have a hot ball of anger to survive here." Indeed, nothing kills us more massively than the anger arising from socially in**ed conflict and confusion. Behind that fighter and the fight is often, if not always, that unrelenting driver which mankind is heir to: fear.
BELIEF KEEPS US FROM SEEING WHAT IS.
That same fear can be, if directly, fearlessly seen, the key to unlocking the prison of the angered anxiety in which we live and for which we fight. In seeing one's inner conflicts, the necessary need for sufficiency, for enough, for an abiding joy beyond fleeting pleasure, arises. There can be a drawing back of that curtain, to let in the light that reveals everything wrong doesn't have to be right, yes? A letting go of all that heavy fear which freights us; the releasing of suffered pains that allow us to face a today not freighted with yesterday's baggage and the imagined threats looming on tomorrow's horizon.
The whole disaster is, in truth, mind-made beliefs (all psychological fears, desires, and the need to control are conjured by the mind) that demand, as they destroy, the innate peace of one's natural, beautiful, joyful, and easeful being. I'll close with this insightful J Krishnamurti quote about the importance of a thoughtless, peaceful mind for a peaceful life, and invite you to leave the headland for a rest - take a long, lingering inner hike deep into the heartland: love.
"To be without thought is to be mature, because that is the essence of freedom. Thought is the reaction of the past, and today is the process of the past. To cut away all that completely is not to be thoughtless, a moronic or imbecilic state, or amnesia, but to use thought and to be free of thought."
~ In letting desires and fears pass, one doesn't need to believe, to 'know,' to solve the mind's problems. There's joy in being. :)
