Line of inquiry: “Betwixt two thoughts there is a gap No illusions therein entrap In the time stretched pause we then see Ego craving is a mousetrap”
Thoughts rush like river— currents pulling every want into fevered swirls the ego clenches its hold hungry for the next longing. When a hush opens empty betwixt between breaths in pause unforeseen behests relent in stillness which the ego can't abide. In that slender void the illusion becomes clear— wants insatiable can never be satisfied in the rush of desiring. Ego's mousetrap waits baited with its same old ache— the want to have more yet the pause disarms the snare as false hunger wanes waiting. In the pause revealed the trap is an illusion— unsprung, unbound, flayed the ego fills the spaces with cravings unfulfilling.
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