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“THOUGHTS ARE THINGS THAT ARISE AND THEN FADE AWAY.”

Even if “you” find “yourself” repeatedly recalling a past event in the mind—revisiting what happened, rewriting the narrative, or rehearsing how “you” might respond differently—there is no need to suppress these thoughts or force “yourself” to ignore them.

What is required is simply to observe these thoughts—which often follow established patterns—for what they are: nothing more than thoughts that arise and then fade away without any basis. As Awareness needs only witness them as they naturally disappear.

Conversely, if “you” treat these thoughts as if they were objective facts and become absorbed in the stories they weave—for instance, by pouring “fuel” (attention) onto the sensations that triggered them and the emotions that followed—“you” could find a simple, unpleasant feeling escalate into anger, and eventually intensify into deep resentment. Alternatively, if “you,” as a doer, struggle to prevent these thoughts from arising or attempt to ignore them, “you” are resisting the natural flow of reality of impermanent—a flow where events simply occur and then shift. Such resistance is neither constructive nor effective; it is towards a constructed illusion, such as invented stories, reactions, and further interpretations, merely a form of “one-person theater.” Resisting this illusion only triggers a cascade of further reactions. This is what is based on so-called “suffering.”

This is a condition in which awareness unknowingly is consumed by an unconscious identification with these fleeting thoughts—mistaking them for the self itself (but actually, it’s just the narrative of “I,” the “false self”).

Instead, directing attention inward and questions such as: “What is it that is influenced everything the “I” perceive as reality?” “What is the actual content of this event?” and, most importantly, “Who is it that is perceiving this?”

To whom, exactly, has that perception appeared? And who, exactly, is it that reacts to these things?

Furthermore, for what purpose did its reaction happen?

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Once awareness truly realizes that these are “merely thoughts,” there is no longer any need to strive to withdraw attention from them, nor any need to try to stop thinking them.

This is because genuine realization inevitably and spontaneously brings about a transformation.

What is truly required is not the control of the reality which were already interpreted—or of the thoughts and emotions within the mind—nor is it the coordination of efforts with others to manifest “your” ideal world; rather, it is the act of seeing through all facts as they are, by pure awareness, without any doer.

Furthermore, importantly, the focus of this inquiry is never “someone else,” but always “oneself”—that is, it needs to be directed “inward.”

The more awareness sees through “yourself” in a mental level—accepting the facts, including identifications and assumptions, simply as they are—the deeper understanding of others automatically deepens (separation dissolves). Compassion and kindness begin to manifest spontaneously, without any illusory “doer” (the “I”). Furthermore, the act of witnessing becomes entirely natural and free—occurring without any “witnesser” striving to observe, and without any separate “witness” present.

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There is no “self” that needs to be improved.

There is no “awakened one” undergoing a spiritual awakening.

There exists no fixed subject anywhere that perceives things.

In other words, there is no central entity anywhere that initiates actions—regardless of what those actions might be.

There is no “self,” nor is there an “other”; there is only the unfolding of “all actions, such as seen, witnessed, observed,” happening purely and simply as “the actions themselves.” (OM 🙏)