Whole Explorers

Clouds, blue clouds disguising themselves as sky.

If we extrapolate this and match to its equivalent analogy of thoughts and consciousness?

Thoughts are like clouds in the sky of consciousness, right?

Like the blue clouds above, thoughts can also disguise themselves as consciousness or a self, right?

So many blue clouds merged and flowing into one another gives the impression a blue sky, likewise, so many thoughts flowing one after the another gives the impression of a self.

Notice someday on a silent night when you are not getting sleep. When racing, intrusive thoughts won’t leave you alone. Just notice very slowly the procession and succession of thoughts.

And you will notice that the ending of one thought quite often overlaps with the starting of next thought.

Rarely is there a gap between two thoughts. That gap, momentary gap is bliss. Because in that gap consciousness reveals itself.

The gap you feel when you laugh wholeheartedly, while making love, bungee-jumping or any adventure sports, and so on…

Thought is very deceptive like a chamleon.

It might lead us to think that the thought of bliss is bliss.

Let me give you an example.

When you get high you might be tempted to say that i experienced bliss. When in fact the experience itself is a conditioned and colored and ‘clothed’ thought.

In the end, your bliss experience is also a thought.

Bliss is not an experience. However, we have to use some word that goes well with the word ‘bliss’. So we use the word ‘experience’ or ‘feel’.

But eventually, it is just a thought. And thought can never be ‘bliss’ or ‘consciousness’. Just like cloud can never be the sky no matter how blue the cloud is.

It is all an illusion. A very real illusion.

What say?