Expectation, Reaction and Inquisition

Thought which is the accumulation of a life time of experiences, is the store house of all that we have been exposed to. From this bank of memories thought formulates the self which is a continuity that is the organization of thought into the conceptual. Conceptual reality is the content of consciousness that has been conditioned by the self through the duality of opposition (the me and the not me). When one is centered in the self there is the activity of definition according to the limitation of ones knowledge. Defined reality is self enclosing and conclusive.

When there is conclusion there is expectation. One is always looking for conformity to ones own defined reality. When one is caught in the limitation of self and the activity of referencing one is reactive. Reaction is the response of the conditioned self, which is opinionated and judgemental. When one reacts one is protecting the image of self which gives rise to sentiment and emotion.



Armed with the illusion of a self created reality one becomes an inquisitor. Inquisition exist of and for its own sake. One is looking to discredit, nullify, or reconcile that which does not conform. One should not confuse inquisition with iconoclastic questioning. Questioning seeks the truth through the negation of the false. Inquisition seeks conformity to an established belief or opinion. The nature of inquisition is one of suspicion, guilt and violence. Inquisition is territorial in the sense that is an expansion of isolation. One is seeking to justify and give legitimacy to an activity that is born of the will to dominate and sublimate. But its reality is one of self deprecation. The inquisitor is a slave to violent intent. Not only physical violence but psychological violence which is more detrimental to others and to the one who is violent. Ultimately one must come to the realization that inquisition is present in all to one degree or another. To look at one self and realize the truth requires a mind that is acutely aware of the motivation of thought and its subject reality. One must be free from the formulations of mind that is the ideological self. That freedom is realized when thought, which is time, ceases the activity of referencing. Within that silence and stillness is the emptiness of self, which is that which cannot be known. The moment to moment reality of existence, of life as it is without the imprint of mind.