"I [thought] will never leave or forsake you." Of principles and patterns of thought you are created, of principles and patterns of thought you are guided, of principles and patterns of thought you are moved.Dennis: How do you pull the ground from I Am to realise groundlessness?
Which means that in order to go beyond the mind of conditioning, one must step into a principle and pattern of thought that points to or suggests the unconditioned state. Both Gautama and Jesus were masters of this walk of thought that allowed them to live in the world, yet, not be of the world.
What is the nature of such thought that is "the lamp unto thy feet" of enquiry that allows the Son of man to be expanded beyond his logic seeking mind of cause and effect? Such thought is called myth and metaphor. The Son of man is always a myth and metaphor to himself, this is why "he has no place to lay his head," but he is not always conscious of this, his nature of Word. However, when he becomes consciously aware that he is a living myth and metaphor to himself, he can then embrace this walk or path of thought and apply it to his awareness of standing on the invisible ground of himself. Of living his myth consciously, of living his metaphor consciously, man is expanded beyond his belief that he cannot go through the mind to go beyond the mind.
The language of myth and of metaphor of the invisible ground of I Am was best revealed by the Master Jesus. He was not the originator, for the Old Testament uses myth and metaphor as a path of Self Realization, but he was the Master who brought it forth in all its glory as the Way, the Truth and the Life. "I and the Father are One." "The Son of man." "The Son of God." "The Kingdom of God." Words that were void of humanism, but not void of words that one who believes themselves to be human can use to go beyond their humanism or belief in being human.
Jesus and Gautama both walked the walk of ascension into thought that cleansed/purged/dissolved their conditioned awareness, "precept by precept, line by line, here a little, there a little."