The Center Is Just Another Thought
Nowhere to Get To: Presence, Risk, and True Nature
December 6, 2023
dialogue

The Center Is Just Another Thought

El centro es solo otro pensamiento

A question about whether experience has a center, and what lies beyond belief.

The Center Is Just Another Thought

A question about whether experience has a center, and what lies beyond belief.

Would you say the center is unknowable, or is it just centerless?

It is completely centerless. The idea of a center is a rational thought within a mental map about what experience is. The idea of center is just another thought.

It's another way to try and say "I," right? Like, I need a center around me.

Yes. But the more you look at the experience of a center, the more you see that it is not what you are.

What is beyond belief

I think I already believe what you're going to say, but I'll ask it anyway. What is beyond belief?

Reality. And it is beyond, but it is now. It is not beyond in place or in time. When I say "beyond," I mean something like behind the curtain. The belief is also within reality. It's just that that is all it is: a belief. The problem is when we take a belief to be reality. That is when you create the curtain.