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　　When thoughts come up in the mind it”s both useful and fascinating for one to consider, "Why did I think that

　　 Where did that thought come from

　　" Very often one can trace these thought patterns back to teachers who inspired you, either in words or in books. Why did you think that thought

　　 Is it really your thought, or is it the thought of Ajahn Brahm, or maybe the thought of your father, or the thought of your mother

　　 Where did that thought come from

　　 Thought does not belong to you. Thoughts come according to their conditions, they are triggered in the mind because of causes. It”s fascinating to see that thought is anatta, not ”me”, and not ”mine”.

　　Why is it that thoughts obsess the mind

　　 Thoughts come in and we grab hold of them. We make them stay because of the illusion that they are important. People sometimes have such nice thoughts, they come and tell me later, and they call them ”insights”. They are just thought, that”s all. Just leave the thoughts alone. Don”t take them to be ”mine”. If one takes thoughts to be ”mine”, then one will go and beat someone else over the head with them, and argue about who”s right and who”s wrong. Letting them go is far more peaceful, far more joyful. Thinking is one of the biggest hindrances to deep meditation. Thinking so often stops one from seeing the truth, from seeing the true nature of things.

　　Therefore, give thinking no value. Give it no interest. Instead, give that value and interest much more to the silence. For those of you who have experienced long periods in meditation, where not a thought has been going on in your mind, isn”t that nice, isn”t that beautiful, isn”t that just so lovely, when there is peace in the mind and not a thought coming up

　　 Remember that, cherish that thought of no thought. Then it”s a thought that ends thought. All truth, all insight, all wisdom, arises in the silence.

　　The ”Doer” is Not Self

　　If one thinks "I am in charge", if that delusion is still there, that will be a major hindrance to one”s meditation. This will create restlessness, and there will be craving for this, that and the other. One will never be able to get into jhanas. However, one must understand that the ”doer” cannot let go of doing. This is like trying to eat your own head. That”s what people often try and do. They try to do the non-doing. That”s just more doing! It has to be like a change, a flip in the mind. It takes some wisdom to see that this ”doing” is just a conditioned process. Then one can let go. When one lets go, then this whole process just goes so beautifully, so smoothly, so effortlessly. With luck one might get into a jhana. In the jhana states the ”doing” has gone and it has stopped for a long time. Coming out again afterwards one will naturally think, "This is good, this is beautiful, this is wonderful". Then one will start to see this illusion of the ”doer”.

　　To do is to suffer. Doing is dukkha, dukkha is doing. When there is doing, it”s like a wave on the lake. The stillness is lost. When the stillness is lost, like the rippled surface of a lake it distorts the image of the moon high in the sky. When the lake is perfectly still and nothing is happening, when no one is doing anything to disturb the moment, then the reflection is pure, truthful, real, and it”s also very beautiful. The jhanas should give one enough data to see once and for all that this thing, that which we call ”the doer”, is just a completely conditioned phenomenon. That insight has profound effects afterwards. Sometimes people ask the question, "If the will is not yourself, if it”s nothing to do with you, why bother

　　 Why even bother to get up at four o”clock in the morning and meditate

　　" The answer is, "Because you”ve got no choice".

　　”The Knower” is Not Self

　　Even deeper than ”the doer” is ”…

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