consciousness of the unconditioned

When one discovers the true self, then that discovery opens the door to a new level of understanding. Understanding that is the outcome of the awareness of the movement of thinker and thought and its relationship to the conditioned. The conditioned harbors the concept of individuality. The separative and divisive activity of the ego-centric. The mind is in a state of consciousness that is entirely subjective. Reality is filtered through the illusion that one has of the self, with its individual characteristics, beliefs, and habits. As one experiences outside stimulus, the self responds according to its programing. It is a sort of auto-response mechanism that is continually comparing, judging and concluding. Mind is caught in this trap, which thought has created as a repository of experience (memory). Then thought creates the means by which the repository can be accessed on a continual basis. This continuity is the self the one who thinks. Can one in the moment realize and be aware of this movement? The relationship of thinker to thought, that there is no thinker, there is only thought. That the thinker is the illusion. Then through this realization become totally aware of whole field of mind-thought consciousness. It may then be possible for mind to dwell in a state of total silence and stillness, which is not some perceived "goal" of mediation, which is artificial and contrived. But which is the unexpected and uninvited.

Within this silence the unconditioned flowers. It is consciousness that is without purpose or motive. It is total understanding of the truth of the moment. The unconditioned consciousness is a peaceful state of awareness that simply observes without a center that is observing. The state of unconditioned consciousness is not a continuity, it cannot become an 'experience' to be repeated. It is when all else is not. With the initial realization there may be a feeling of detachment from the physical and a sense of the ethereal. But do not cling to any manifestation as having significance beyond simple characteristic or aspect. Otherwise you will fall back into the conditioned consciousness which is seeking result. One should be mindful of the fact that the unconditioned is devoid of definition, it cannot be grasped by the intellect. The naming of experiencing is the destruction of its essence.

The concept of Nirvana is not Nirvana. Nirvana is a Buddhist concept which has become commercialized into the self styled goal of religious personalities of authority. They are caught in the web of their self created importance. For the unconditioned to flower, one must be free from all illusions that mind has created for the acquisition of that which is beyond. One must have intuitive insight into the nature of the mind that is seeking. One may then realize the necessity of throwing off all attachments to religious tradition and authority. It is very difficult to abandon religious tradition, because it provides a certain level of safety and security. To venture beyond the known into the unknown is to leave behind the the comforts of the conditioned consciousness.

While the writer is attempting to explain in words, what cannot in reality be explained, it is enough to create an atmosphere, where there is the possibility of awareness in which their is intuitive realization. As it were a seed being planted. One must read not words but the possibility of that which is beyond words. In reading be aware of your own mind and how it interprets according to its beliefs and prejudice. What you are reading is not as important as what you can realize about yourself as you read.

You may then be able to grasp the importance of being totally free from the illusion of self. This means that you throw off all psychological attachments and identifications. To allow yourself to live in the reality of insecurity, and then to go beyond that insecurity to unconditioned consciousness in which there is total peace and understanding.