I've been drawing back a bit from interacting with integral in any type of intellectual way.  And this has presented a bit of a contradiction.

It's very clear when, resting in awareness, that - as was spoken of by Krishnamurti - thought is a corruptor.  False, and basically - dead.  This is as clear in sitting awareness as a self-presentation - obvious, like the color of a rose.

And yet - AND YET...

Even resting awareness, forms beliefs, guidelines, VISIONS - that are deeply, inimately, related to thought.  Yet - not thought.  Not really.

And this process of reflection ON thought - is itself ruminations among the lifeless.  Or at least, REMOVED from awareness, caught in the dead mansions of the mind. 

Eh.

Perhaps it is as simple as this. 

Thought throws up its forms - taking its cues from silent intelligence and awareness - but these forms thrown up, like waves, or chairs, bodies - are useful for living and being guided in the world.

But don't identify with these thoughts, the same way you don't identify with the other forms that can be seen from the eyes.  All show up, appear, and pass away.