Thought Isn’t the Problem

And sensation isn’t the answer.

Someone said in a meeting that thoughts distract us from feeling. I’ve believed that. I’ve said it. It helped for a while. It showed me how often attention jumped away from what was actually going on in the body.

But now that framing feels like it’s keeping something alive.

It makes thought the problem. It puts sensation on a pedestal. Like presence is something you get to if you can just drop beneath the noise. But when I look now, that split isn’t there.

What’s called “thought” and what’s called “sensation” both come with the same overlay. They’re not two. Even the sense of sensation is part of the same mental activity. It appears the same way. As meaning. As story.

It’s not that thought pulls me out of presence. And it’s not that sensation brings me into it.

It’s all part of the same field. Not two things. Never was.

That idea, that you need to go beneath thought to feel, might help at some stages. But if you hold onto it, it becomes another search. Another attempt to land somewhere.

But there’s nothing underneath.

No deeper layer. No final arrival.

It’s already this.

And I know those words don’t land the same everywhere. I’ve heard them through seeking too. Back when “this” still felt like something I had to reach.

Now they don’t point. They don’t conclude. They don’t do anything.

They just come from what’s left when the whole thing stops making sense.

Even the loop is made of this.