The writer

As the body writes, there can be the belief that there is an autonomous individual doing the writing.

Or, that belief can be absent.

Without the belief that this human organism is run by a controller-doer-self, it is quite obvious that:

• words emerge out of nowhere

• impulses to edit, stop, or continue all just occur

• attention and distraction happen by themselves

• thoughts arise and dissolve without control

• the thought “I am writing this” is another thought.

Without the imagined doer, writing simply unfolds. Typing types, ideas appear, edits occur.

Writing is a seamless, uncaused movement without a center or owner, without anyone making any aspect of it happen.

If a thought about a writer pops up, it is just more thought. It has no power and doesn’t control anything either. The thought that there is someone doing the writing doesn’t make it so, no matter how often it appears.

Not being the one who writes is complete intimacy with the writing. There is no one at any distance from it. There are no needs, expectations, or constraints to it.

Nothing is inside or outside.
Nothing is under control or out of control.
Nothing is mine or not-mine.

It is writing without a someone trying to do the writing. It is free.

All of life is like this.