Starting To See

I am starting to see how easy it is to be deceived. The mind makes up a story to survive in this world. The trouble is not the story, the trouble is seeing it as the absolute truth. Even science tells us that the brain doesn't know the difference between reality and imagination. Either everything is real or everything is imagined. Either way, all is just a story made up for survival. To put the story aside is akin to putting the mind aside. But! When the mind is removed, what remains? And therein lies the fear. Who am I without my thinking? And what if it's ugly, and what if it's empty? And what if there is nothing, then what to become of me? The sages keep saying that's where life's answers and joy are residing, and yet we're hesitant to enter that realm. The choice is clear: to live by the world created by mind's imagination or to live in the world of life.