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This centerpiece, really, if you look at meditation training, the centerpiece of most meditation

trainings involves building some capacity to wake up out of thoughts.

I tried to emphasize it a bit tonight, but really it's basic in the training and how we relate

to thoughts is kind of critical because the idea is not to get rid of them.

That's like saying that you shouldn't secrete enzymes or something.

The mind secrete thoughts like the body secrete enzymes, they just happen.

So the idea is not to get rid of thoughts.

It's thinking is key to our survival and thriving.

But like all tools, there's a limited domain for them.

And in an evolutionary way to continue to evolve our consciousness involves a shifting from

being identified and lost in the mental world to arriving in awareness and having thoughts

be a tool.

That makes sense?

This is a shift from being caught inside the trans of thinking to being able to rest

in the kind of presence that knows thinking is going on and can use thoughts productively.

And the deep understanding is that the wisdom and love that we, that are what we are and

that we want to arrive home in are not available through thinking.

Thinking can be a support, but they're not available through thinking.

I'm reading a book called The Religious Case Against Belief by James Kars and he describes

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