You Are The Sky

You are the sky.
The clouds are what happens,
what comes and goes.

A metaphor for practising with thoughts
which is sometimes used which describes
the process of practicing with them as follows:

Thoughts are like clouds moving across the sky.
You are the sky and the thoughts are just a movement,
like clouds. Don’t move attention towards them or away from them.

But there is something very important
that is being left out.
The metaphor implies a “watcher” of the clouds
and unless this “watcher” is also released,
we have not begun to practise with
the mechanisms of self-image that give rise to patterns of contraction.

We need to attend to thoughts like the sky attends to clouds,
not like someone sitting on the ground looking up at the clouds.