Castles in the air

Awareness is the substrate on which the thought driven drama of the world occurs; you and I are that awareness, that substrate that allows thoughts to be.

And yet our complete identification with those thoughts allows an unbelievably complex world to be built. And so often, the identification is so thorough and so complete, that breaking out of it becomes next to impossible.

Identification with the body is at least understandable, since we infuse it completely, head to toe. It is a vital element of our current state of being. But the complete and mesmerized identification with our thoughts is what is fascinating.

Woody Allen, in one of his films, depicts an individual who moves from one group to a totally different group but meshes completely with each group when with them - in mind and spirit. The film shows the power as well as faillibility of thought created worlds. They are as tall as our skyscrapers, but as fragile as a deck of cards.

Strongly identified individuals tend to demonstrate the same tendency in the opposite direction of being completely bound in a thought created world - and finding it almost scary to break free.

Let us step away, for a moment, from the spoken and the heard, and instead focus on That which allows the speech to occur, and the words to be heard. Everything we say, do, experience, happens on the substrate of That that allows it to be. And that substrate is Awareness, which is You and which is Me. Thou art indeed That (tat tvam asi).