To find out directly, not through knowledge, if it is possible to let thinking be without participating in it. Can there be non-participating observation of thinking?
Surely, if it's possible, it's not a product of thought, so it cannot be stored as knowledge or even experience. It must be prior to that, more foundational. The nature of that observation must be more prior to the activity of thought. It cannot bloom out of thinking, it cannot be a successful result of intention. Thought is there, yes or no, and you are not participating in it.
I don't say if it's possible or not, but I very much say that this is something that you owe to yourself, if you care about the integrity of life, if you realize the twist of observing as a thought.
When thought generates the observation, the impressions, the descriptions, the knowledge that ripple out of itself, it simply invents it, inventing something that is not true, not real. There is no integrity in that.
It may be hiding behind what seems to be wisdom, purity, direct perception—any word or quality that it chooses to hide behind—but the real integrity of the force of life is to be uninterruptedly allowed.
Unknowingly present.
Unlimitedly as it is.
Can you for a while try to disengage from the participation in the flow of thinking? Not stop it, not alter its direction, not hide behind that while it is still guided by the thought itself, but be open to the space in which thinking may appear simply without participating in it, without giving it ripples beyond what is perceived at the moment.
Constantly look at the actual: thinking is there, or thinking is not there, whatever the actual is, without making sense out of it, without agreeing or disagreeing with the reality or with the imaginative nature of it.
Just let it be.
Try. You owe it to the integrity of your life.
