Decisions aligned with what is actually happening confirm the useful purpose of thoughts. To believe in what is not happening as all that is happening is to think that thinking about thinking creates reality and truth as immediately as we think we become only what we think. . What is manifest in thought can feel real just as the imagery of a movie or dream can “capture" our imagination, emotions or reactions. What is born of thought is imagined, an image. Thoughts cannot condemn us though by opposing them we can create that impression. Taking our-selves seriously is imagining thought thinking of it-self has a life of its own that is our-self. Illusions thought to be real are delusions. The devastation of this inner through history reveals something is wrong.
Focusing on the effect of symptoms ignores causes. Fixating on thought to repair what it is intent on breaking is impossible. The mental obsession is not a mystery. The nature of addiction is to think all that we think is not the cause. As a result trying to solve the effects, where enough is never enough, indicates addiction is thinking that the effect is the cause thus the problem.
To think we need to stop what we’re doing while doing what we’re doing is to simultaneously think what is happening is not happening. Human functional capacity is crippled by turning the immediacy of all possibilities into the consuming nature of chronic conflict and instability in mental, emotional, and physical states. Obsessive thoughts are bent on trying to accomplish what cannot be done just as any lie only exists as long as thinking considers it will or even can come true.
Sobriety is sanity. Emotional sobriety is sane living. There is nothing sane about defending the life of a bundle of thoughts we think are real and true and thus all we are. Any problem with ego disappears once we concede it is imagined. Obsessively thinking our sup-posed self can be saved from the effect of lying is to perpetuate the lie that it exists. This self-centered-in-thought tries to hide it is based in fear, for the fear of being "found out” is constant, while angels; the metaphoric or actual spiritual nature of being, do not tread into fantasy as reality since reality has no scarcity as it is all that IS. The folly of thought makes fools of us all - when all we think we are is what we think.
Our discussion is not about stopping anything. Our thought-full focus is on what we are actually doing. There is no conflict in things as they are. The dissolution of triggering the fight of the addictive cycle frees us from imagined condemnation to see peace rather than disturbance in our actual nature. Consideration is response-ability while the disturbing nature of reactiveness fights for more conflict. To see things as they are despite what we think melts the compelling urge to restart what we only imagine we struggle to stop. And when or if for any seemingly compelling reason, we choose to restart the cycle - the impression it is all we can do will quickly fade. We always know better than to only think what is worse is our only choice.
Speaking openly and honestly is the chance to see that what we share in the present confirms our shared presence. If we share what is absolute, absolutely, then seeing wrong only varies in the incorrect ideas we maintain. Our functional capacity and any dysfunctional tendencies occur on the same basis.