The mind has a tendency to attribute a carrier to everything. It is lightning, it is raining, it is thinking, someone is thinking.

What is really present is lightning, rain, a thought. An emotion, a feeling, a sensation. Without a carrier, without an owner.

And when we begin to approach what is happening with the attitude of „There is a thought, there is a feeling,” rather than „I have a thought, I have a feeling” – which is an assertion that has no basis – then we become free from this tendency to attribute a carrier to everything. And with that we become free from the identification, free from the attachment to that thought or that feeling.

And then we can watch what is happening without being affected. Then we can become the pure observer of thoughts and feelings, without being entangled with them.

And then a thought or a feeling can be free, it can come and go as it is in its nature. Without being burdened with an ego that „has” the thought or the feeling, and is influenced and affected by it, and carries it forward.

If we cultivate this „there is” attitude, then a thought is there, and then it is gone again, without leaving a trace. It appears in the infinite space of awareness, blooms, dies down, and is gone again.

And then there's again silence.

And the thought, too, is nothing other than silence, the silence that bubbles and swells.

The same applies to all impulses, all emotions, all feelings, all motives, all tendencies.

It is worth cultivating and training the attitude of „there is“ in everything that occurs in our life.