The Dualistic Nature of Thought

When the mind is engaged in thought the human brain has the ability to distinguish between the one who is thinking and what is being thought about.  This separation of thinker and the object of  his thinking is the basis for all the illusion that the mind creates. This conscious awareness of the activity of mind as an individuality that observes is the impetuous for all conflict.  The observer and what is observed is the division that creates contradiction.  And where there is contradiction there is conflict.  When the mind realizes this conflict then the search is on for a way to conquer it, to escape from it.  A neurosis is created that requires a solution.  The matrix for this activity is "time".  The illusion of time strengthens the dualistic nature of thought and creates a never ending pattern of problem and solution.  Solution which only leads to and is part of another problem.  As long as the mind is caught in this division then time goes on and time is the sorrow of the human race.

How is it possible to go beyond this duality?  First one must realize in the moment and be experiencing this division as a product of time.  One must see the relationship between duality and time.  That they are in fact inseparable, that they are one in the same.  The division between the observer and what is observed is time.  Time is never ending so sorrow is never ending.  To make it clearer....I see within myself the one who is watching, judging, censoring, accepting, rejecting, disciplining, controlling.  So you see the observer is the result of thought and so it follows that what is observed is also the result of thought.  They are the same entity, they are not separate activities.  When thought ceases this activity then there is complete total attention.

True understanding of thoughts dualistic nature is not the result of any form of effort or control.  To fuse  the thinker with his thoughts does not involve any effort of concentration or even meditation.  For to do so implies an agent who is seeking a means to an end.  When thought its self spontaneously comes to an end, then duality ceases to be.  One must be open, sensitive and fully aware of the reality of what is from moment to moment.