Thought has made up most of my living. If there is such a thing as reality, thought is outside of it. This means that thought cannot know reality. Reality therefore is a direct experience between the mind and what is actual, "reality". Meditation then would be the vehicle to have the experience of reality. This is a bit misleading in that there isn't a self to have the experience. Note that the self arises in thought.
Awareness is another word for meditation. Awareness is being aware that you are aware, again there is no self that is being aware, there is only awareness. This is why thought has made up most of my life, I was not aware of reality. In not perceiving the actual reality I invented reality, thought created the self and this is a wrong turn. The entirety of mankind has made a wrong turn, this is why we struggle without results. Reality has no need of a "self" and it is this 'self" that is the source of all our problems. The self does not want this to be true, it is a powerful illusion.
DT AKA Bill Rogan
