Awakening Now
There Is No Mind — So Why Can’t You Stop Thinking?
Feb 28, 2026
Episode 122
Ilona Ciunaite
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If there is no mind, why does it feel so loud?
In this episode I look at what we call “the mind” as a living stream of thoughts appearing. Images, commentary, expectations about awakening, ideas about how this should feel and what should happen next.
We explore thinking by looking at it directly. Thoughts arise. They move. They dissolve. And it becomes clear that there is simply experience unfolding.
Some thoughts pass lightly. Others carry emotional charge. We look at how old hurt can still live in the system, and how protection forms around it. Over time, that protection shapes identity — “I am shy,” “I am not worthy,” “I am ashamed.”
Like a rubber band stretched between pain and the desire for relief, tension builds. When hurt receives attention and space, the energy settles. The story softens. Identity loosens.
Attention gently returns to direct experience — sensation, sound, color, breath. Life is already here before thought describes it.
This episode is an invitation to see thinking as part of the flow of experience, and to recognize what remains present through it all — simple awareness, here and now.
Music by Valdi Sabev, Visit his channel for more calm and relaxed music
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