Drop This Thought

For thinking-addicts, here is a one-moment meditation: DROP THIS THOUGHT.

The practice is unbelievably simple, so don't believe in it. Don't even do it.

Dropping this thought is not the same as trying not to think. Trying not to think us repressive, and a waste of energy. Thoughts are inevitable. But a thought can be dropped, and dropping a thought actually increases energy.

When you drop this thought, the energy that was bound up in thought returns to you as pure awareness - sparkling, limitless, joyful. The moment you drop this thought, an explosion of transparency fills the universe, blessing all creation.

Drop this thought in the well of Presence, where words drown. Drop the affirmation. Drop the belief. What can be repeated in the mind is only an idea, and an idea can never bring us one step closer to Being. A thought of happiness is not happiness. A thought of God is not God. The image of Jesus in your mind is not what Jesus is. Crucify the image.

Truth is not the outcome of thinking. We will never construct a chain of thoughts, an argument, that will end with the realization, "I found the answer! Now everything will be all right!" Truth is a sensation of the heart, not a thought in the head. Drop this thought and taste radiance.

Though we are thinking addicts, one authentic taste of awareness without thought awakens a new destiny. Even for an instant, falling into the well of Presence is a kind of baptism: baptism into the bliss that has no content, no form, no ideology. To taste this bliss is to alight from the ever-circling mind upon the center of the heart, like the swan settling upon still water.

When you drop this thought, there is a surge of pure awareness, transparency without boundaries. Because it is boundless, unobstructed by the form of any concept, awareness dynamically and ceaselessly expands. The sensation of unrestricted expansion is ananda, bliss. 

This clarity does not remain inside you: it overflows through your senses, energizing your whole environment. In reality, awareness, senses and environment are all connected in one energy field. Therefor, when you drop this thought, your burst of awareness reverberates throughout creation, cleansing and transforming the world.

Practice this often, but only for a moment. Such a moment of non-doing is an excellent practice for those whose minds are hopelessly fickle and incapable of lasting stillness: in other words, all of us human beings. 

Brevity is the soul of practice. Dropping this thought now, you instantly dissolve in the ocean of bliss. It is instant grace, not a state maintained by concentration or mindfulness. Trying to hold on to instant grace, trying to turn it into a constant state, is an artifice, a vanity that robs our character of spontaneous joy.

Just become present for this moment. Stop, look, listen, and be. Then go back to work. Let instant grace happen, again and again. Gradually, in its own time, grace becomes an all-pervading Presence. Then you discover that time never was.

Mooji, Look Without Labeling Things