Each thought is a little dream.

The first insight is that each thought cannot point to anything outside of itself.

The second, which is just an implication of the first, is that each thought is “self-enclosed.” At this point, what’s disclosed is, as it were, the thought’s self-enclosed world. A thought is like an act of a magician.

The third re-situates the thought in its proper context: it’s actually resting in the field of awareness. In fact, it’s so drenched by awareness that it’s nothing but a movement of awareness.

Each thought–impermanent, self-referential, and plunged into the water of awareness–feels like a little dream, one that comes and goes, one whose essence is aware presence.