Iconoclastic Truth

What do we mean by iconoclast? Can one know truth in advance of events and circumstance? Is there a 'universal truth'? A connotation of the word iconoclast involves one who destroys religious symbols and or religious beliefs। There are schools of Buddhism that are thought to be iconoclastic i.e. Zen and some Ch'an disciplines of the Mahayana sect. But all these concepts must be avoided if one is to truly understand the essence of the state of the iconoclastic. The Buddha of pure liberation is without attachment or identification. One's mind is totally free of all conceptual images of religion as an institution or organization. Free of the idea of divinity or of god. All are projections of a mind that exist in illusion. Buddhism as it exist today with its many sects is a religion of tradition and conformity. It has been watered down and modified by the quest for fulfillment of perceived spiritual needs of cultures requiring the crutch of religious institution and authority. Ultimately one is iconoclastic only to the self, the ego. For it is within the self that resides the center that is deluded. One rejects and negates inner bondage to the self and its identifications. Truth is found through the negation of the false. One cannot know truth directly. The 'known' is memory, that which has passed and lost the validity of the moment. The truth is the unknown from moment to moment. To be an 'Iconoclast' is to negate the false, through understanding of the true self.

This negation is not a conclusion based on experience and opinion. It is the direct realization of the unconditioned consciousness which is devoid of self. To be iconoclastic to be completely and totally free from all conditioned thought and to see each moment as it actually is without the divisiveness of a mind that is seeking conformity. One must be constantly aware of the movement of thought (Meditative Mind). Awareness that is without choice or discrimination, that makes no judgement or reaches conclusion. Iconoclastic truth is not an opposition, nor is it a concept to be understood, it is a state of awareness that is the stripping away of all attachments to symbols of authority.