[Gem]

Originally Posted by God-Like

Butt even so, within your understanding that the enemy resides within the obscurity of delusion there is a reflection had of self or what you are that is not residing nor reflecting within the delusion .

Yes there is a delusion of self involved in the agitations we call personal reactions, and we can notice these reactivities (which we call 'the enemy') and see there is no self inherent to them. In that awareness, the watcher is unaffected by such turmoils in the mind, and hence such turmoils cease.

Upon the surface level ceasing and becoming quiet, deeper aspects start to arise, and these are noticed in the same objective sense, and through such a process we arrive at the roots and resolve life long issues, but during that process we are challenged as the violence of such arising storms can exceed our limited ability for mindful equanimity, so there is a strengthening aspect which enables us endure with poise and balance yet greater extremes of the experience.

This is where and why and how thoughts become you . They come about through your own self reflection ...

If there is no-one present per se and enemies are delusional then what does that say about what you are that can discern delusional reflections from something other than that?

There is a difference between illusion and delusion, so that which arises is illusory in nature, but it is the reality of the lived experience. The awareness of it as arising in the absence of having substance, or in other words, self, is freedom from delusion, or noticing its illusory quality. However, it must arise, so attempts to stop it, resist it, avoid it are like being present for this enemy to fight.

Your next thought will comprise all of what I mentioned above .

I don't see that prediction actualising at all.