What thought is not an illusion. The thought, what it says, and as what it shows up is an illusion. The thought itself is a form, it's not an illusion, but what is says is an illusion. Once you can see the aliveness of the thought, without believing in what it says you can see aliveness of the thought being an appearance in this timeless now. If you're caught in the stream of thinking, then you'd disagree. Eg. A human is more alive than a rock, that is actually because you're thinking, that's because you're believing in your thoughts. When there is a simple and pure perception of what is happening, then you see that everything is just this one aliveness. --- Thoughts. They happen in the now. Don't believe in what they say about the future or the past. See that they are an alive appearance that is happening right now. Consciousness in itself isn't really a thing, it is just open awareness in which forms appear. And you don't believe in thoughts, you don't project some future or past into the now and believe in that, in what the thought says, but you can actually see the aliveness of the thought when at the same time not believing in what it says. Know how to detach from your egoic sense of self. Detach and see that the feeling of having a body, of having a head, of having an emotion is not you, but you're the awareness of it, then it's easy to see that everything is happening in the now. There's no future no past, therefore just this aliveness. Plant Analogy: When you see a plant at your house, you see it's aliveness absent the story line of how you got it. Pure direct experience.