Accumulation, Attachment and Identification

Accumulation is both of the material and the psychological. They are both related to a mind that is seeking identity through attachment to that which will provide a sense of self. That which further defines individuality and self importance. The result of this is the ego/centric activity of
comparison, conclusion and control. One associtates the content of memory with the reality of the moment. This assoctiative process is what causes the confusion of emotion and fear. One attaches significance to a material object or a psychological experience that brings to the conscious level memories of events surrounding the acquistion of the object or the experience. One is attached psychologically to the object or the experience because it has been made part of identity. It gives a sense of continuity to the self. Mind is caught between reality and the phantasy of what was and does not want to accept what is. Memory and reality cannot exist simultaneously. One is the past and one is the present. The process of attempting to reconcile the present with the knowledge of the past is the basis for the conflict and fear of psychological escape. One must recognize this referencing activity, and be aware of how it creates division and emotional instability.


When one is identified with material possessions or psychological events that are imprinted on the mind, then one becomes attached and is now a prisoner of the self imposed limitation of minds accumulations. Attachment to the known, to knowledge, to the self is the single most distructive force. When one becomes a prisoner to identification and attachment then one is caught in the fearful and violent need to protect this accumulation which has given one a false sense of security. If one is aware of this activity without making a judgement or reaching a conclusion then it is possible to experience without attachment. Seeing the whole field of mind/thought activity and its relationship to identification is to negate its effects. When one is aware one is free to recognize the truth.


One may ask, is it possible to live in such a state of complete freedom? Actually one is free, but mind is caught in the illusion of attachment and identification. To have the realization of this illusion and stay with the reality of 'what is' is simplicity its self. But mind has been so conditioned that it is unable to stay with the fact. Not only the conditioning of a life time of experiences but also the genetic conditioning of the survival instinct. This instinct over time has been encoded into thought as one matures. One cannot overcome conditioning through an act of will, because that is simply another facet of self motivation and thus attachment and identification to the 'idea or concept' of freedom which is not the reality of freedom.


Meditation that is an awareness of the complexity of mind and thought, may bring about a stillness, a non-movement in which there is a silence. Silence that is not contrived, and within that silence there is complete understanding that is not an activity of the thought.