The very thing causing our misery is what we defend with our life.
Everything that we experience is possible only via thinking. One cannot escape it. Your entire world is created on a moment to moment basis by your mind via thinking.
If there is content, there has to be a container. The container cannot be the same as the content. If there’s something temporary, there has to be something that’s permanent. The content keeps changing only because there’s an unchanging container. There’s always a gap between the content and the container. You are the container and your thinking, emotions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, ideologies etc are the content. They keep changing all the time. There’s a constant flux within you. And there’s something that never changes, remains unaffected by the flux.
Things need to be looked at a cosmic scale. The major issue is that we are completely disillusioned by the content that we completely miss the vast container holding it. The more enchanted you are by the content the more you forget about the container. Its like when you are reading a book, you completely forget the white page and your entire focus is on the printed words. Even if you bring your attention to the page, you can’t hold it there for long and you start reading the words again.
There’s a constant fight with reality. Somehow we are under the impression that whatever reality exists right now is not sufficient. We are just not able to accept things just the way they are. So much time and energy is spent in worrying and stressing over reality that we don’t really have the energy to actually take action. All action can only be taken here and now. But you are somewhere else. You are either in the past or the future.