The Bridle Paradox

I recently commented on a Facebook post quoting Daigu Ryokan: “Mind itself is the mind that leads into confusion. So never release the bridle of the horse of your mind.”  That statement speaks to the duality of mind.  I asked the question in the comments section, “who holds the bridle?”.  You can’t hold the bridle of your mind because that would mean you have two minds, one being the horse of your mind, and the other mind holding the bridle. To stay with the horse metaphor, it would be like riding on your own back.

Then low and behold I see another post, quoting Alan Watts with the line “the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body”.  To accept that hallucination as something real, to believe what is an illusion, is delusion.   One brain. One mind. One me.