On the Nature of Thought

First thoughts have no parents,
but all thoughts bare children.
All the offspring have no souls,
because at first there was no ancestor.
Thoughts arise to describe reality--
but it can't be done.

Thoughts are not trustworthy, and thoughts are also not an enemy.  Thoughts are just thoughts, they come and they go.  They, in and of themselves, have no reality or substance.  All thoughts arise first because we identify ourselves as some person, or some thing.  When we give rise to a single thought, it rises up first from the sense of 'I'.  From 'I' all thinking, conceptualizing, describing, opinions, and evaluations are derived.  Without first having that primary 'I' concept, all thoughts are irrelevant to the individual.  The only importance or significance that we give to thought is the degree to which we identify with what the thoughts are saying, "their stories".  And, actually, the less importance or attachment we give to our thoughts, the less thought runs our lives. When thought is no longer running the life, then one is free from the 'virtual' life, and living in the actuality of things...Reality.

On the other hand, thought is not to be made the enemy, because making thought bad entrenches the thinking even more than identifying with it.  It is only a thought that wants to get rid of another thought.  It is only an identification that sees a particular thought or concept as problematic.  Who you are cannot be determined by a thought, nor can who you are be determined by resisting thought.
It is actually possible to neither identify with thinking nor resist thought- but to simply recognize that thought is thought, it is impermanent, changing and ultimately unreliable.