Education and Conditioning

Is it possible for us to look directly at systems of education without preconceived notions and theories? Can one look at the reality of education, what 'actually' is without excuse or justification? Because if we justify then we excuse the reality of 'what is' and are unable to perceive the truth of the moment.

Education is a attempt to impart knowledge to 'individuals' in a communal environment that fosters competition and rewards those who are capable of excelling psychologically and physically. It is a system of punishment and reward. Can one realize that the actual fact of education is the teaching of violence. The differentiation of levels of accomplishment harbors the psychological implication of violent behavior. To educate is to alienate and create an atmoshpere of competitive dissonance. Violence may take the form of the physical or the psychological. Violence to another or to one's self. We take the innocence of mind and create an individual who is indoctrinated with fear and suspicion. These are the individuals who will spend a lifetime trying to undo what parents and educators have done to them. As educators one may include not only parents but also religious and political entities. If we look at what our children have become we must realize that they only mirror what we are, what the pressures of society have created. If we are unable to change ourselves, fundamentally, then we cannot expect our children to change, to be any different than what has gone on before. Therefore we cannot expect the world to become less violent through the accumulation of education or knowledge. There must be a fundamental understanding of the nature of thought and cumulative effect that experience has on formulating the self. One must be taught to differentiate between what is reality and what is a projection of the accumulated self. One must realize that a separated individuality is an illusion, a creation of thought which is seeking continuity and relevance As long as one seeks the conformity of the known there will be suspicion and violence. We repeat what we know, because we are unaware of the truth of freedom.

We separate according to intellect, physical ability and the sociological. "We" create the failures and the success'. We do not allow the freedom and creativity of each individual to blossom according to each one's own biological inference and capacity. We instead chastise, criticize, and belittle those who do not fit within the narrow confines of our staid and conflicted requirements for what is considered an education. Higher education is little more than rote memory, which does little to prepare one for the reality of life. As the educated, we are all failures, because that is what we have been taught to be. No success is enough, no money is enough, no acknowledgement is enough. One is always failing at something. We are caught in the mentality of having to become something. We are in reality this, but we aspire to be that. That is the conflict of life of what we call living. Because we cannot accept who we are, we cannot accept others. The violence that we inflict on ourselves is also the violence that we inflict on others.

This programing of violence starts when one is very young. Education and schooling which separates and further divides according to so-called aptitude, is the precursor of a system of reward and punishment. Society worships the successful and the celebrity. We give them power, but we also want desperately for them fail. Because success and failure is what we have been taught. We are programed to experience success so that we can fail. One cannot exist without the other, they are two sides of the same coin, which is fear.


To be educated is to be conditioned. The self, the ego is the result of the accumulation of knowledge. It is the conditioning of insecurity, conflict, and violence. To realize freedom through example and self realization is to discover intelligence which is consciousness of the unconditioned.

Teaching and Communion

Can one teach another? Is it possible to 'know' from teaching? One has only words to communicate the idea of reality. Words are definition, they represent the conceptual, an abstraction. Words are not reality and are at best only points of reference. At worst they are terribly misleading and subject to individual interpretation. Since one is the accumulated content of one's mind, one can comprehend only according to what is in the mind. These accumulations are organized and categorized according to one's beliefs and the environmental pressures of community and organized authority. One's mind manipulates and is constantly being manipulated by the interchange of internal and external authority. Unless one is consciously aware it is impossible to be free of the prison of thought controlled response.


Many think that they are free thinkers. But is there such a thing as free thought? Can thought ever be free? When one is seeking answers, that seeking is the product of thought. In order for thought to seek it must have an idea of what it is that it is seeking. It is looking for something that very nearly conforms to and expands that idea. Mind is seeking comfort in confirmation of the image it has of self. Mind seeks to compliment not to find truth. For mind to find truth it must free its self from the bondage of its own self created image. Its accumulated opinions and conclusions. One only builds on one's established image. That is why one remains fundamentally the same even though one may change religions, go to seminars, meditate. Consult Guru's, Shamans, Priest, or any of a numerous variety of self proclaimed New Age Divinities. One can observe that in reality one is just going in circles, that one still has the same problems. One may be a little less neurotic, but one has still not found true peace and understanding.


The purpose of a teacher is not to teach but to mirror. The one who is seeking should see himself or herself in the one who is communicating. When one is communicating there must be a communion in order for there to be understanding on the same level. There is not teacher and student or inniate, there is only two people coming together in truth and understanding, that is absent the authority of individuality. When there is no authority then there is no opposition. For there to be communion, there must be a dissipation of the duality of thinker and thought.


Most of what is taught by authority figures is a repetition, they are only repeating what they have been taught. They are puppets tied to the narrowness of their own mind. To 'teach' is to postulate a reality based on thought. To commune is to open the mind to the possibility of freedom. With freedom there is creative understanding that is not the product of a mind that is seeking conformity to the ideal or conceptual.


When one uses another as a mirror, then one may face the true reality of self. There is nothing between you and the mirror, nothing to hinder the realization of truth. The reflection of one's image in another is the truth of relationship. Existence mirrors who and what we are. To commune is to look into that mirror and realize the truth of the moment. To stay with 'what is' and through the awareness of 'what is' have total understanding of the self.

The purpose of a teacher then, is not to teach and indoctrinate, but to create an atmosphere of freedom. In which one can come to an understanding that is not the result of a comparison of ideas and conceptual theories. Which is instead the full realization of the unconditioned. Rather than fill another's mind with our own repetitive non-sense, one mirrors the emptiness of a mind that is receptive to the truth of the moment.

Adversity and the Moment

It is interesting, how that catastrophic adversity brings people together. People who would not ordinarily talk to each other, establish an immediate friendship. Individuals care for each other, and give of themselves freely without condition. Of course there a still those who seek advantage in a situation that may represent monetary gain. But by enlarge people are accepting and forgiving.

One is not concerned about the past or the future, but only present need. They are in the moment and put away there differences. They may actually see the stupidity of there opinions and prejudiced. Adversity with all its destruction can actually give one a sense of joy and happiness. It is the release of conflict, of staid resistance. The realization of the simplicity of just living life.


Adversity in one's personal life can be an awakening. One can come face to face with what one actually is. Adversity can be a catalyst to understanding the illusion and futility of the accumulation of the material and psychological. But for it to represent a true transformation one must stay with the moment and have a deep understanding of the nature of self. Otherwise one will fall back into the conditioning of the past. Most will experience a subtle change in life. A change that makes one a little more tolerant, but by enlarge one will simply replace one type of conditioning with another which may seem a little less divisive.


Adversity can set one free. If one can realize the intelligence of maintaining that freedom in the moment, then one's life can be transformed. One can move away from the prison of attachment and identification. When one is transformed one lives in the truth of the moment, which is the outcome of freedom. This freedom is not freedom from something, which is the mind that is seeking a result. It is freedom that is not an acquisition, but a negation of the image of that which makes up the illusion of individuality. As long as there is consciousness of individuality there is the promotion of self interest and the desire to manipulate. Individuality is the movement of one's conditioned consciousness, from past through present to future. It is the illusion of the existence of time through the psychological and made manifest in the materiality of the me and the not me. The non-dual is the uncondititoned, that which is when all else is not.

The Revolution of Intelligence

Is it possible for peoples of different cultures and beliefs to live in peace and acceptance? It is very easy for one to get caught up in the self which is seeking the security of the conditioned mind. One does not accept 'what is', so one cannot accept the reality of one's own prejudice and the misery and conflict that it brings. Mind/thought and the one who thinks is seeking conformity to its beliefs and ideals. But the world seldom conforms to one's way of thinking, one's prejudicial comparisons and conclusions. That is why it is so important for the mind to understand its own inward division, which is the cause of all outward division. With understanding comes the freedom of intelligence.

In order to understand one must realize the necessity of freeing one's mind from conditioned consciousness. As long as you use the conditioned mind to interpret the reality of the moment you will forever be in conflict and confusion. One will never have the clarity that is necessary to observe the manipulation and exploitation that is the outcome of a mind that is engaged in identification and attachment. This activity is one's separation and isolation which breeds suspicion and violence. One must observe and be aware of the subtlety of thought and its propensity to become attached to ideals which seem to provide security. But which in reality only propagate fear and suspicion.

If one can have understanding that is the outcome of actual observation and experiencing of minds conditioned activity, then one will realize intelligence. Intelligence that is the dissipation of beliefs and ideals. Intelligence that is the realization of the moment and the acceptance of 'what is'. One may realize that beliefs are not the reality of the unseen and immeasurable. That ideals are not the reality of peace and freedom.


It is the revolution within, the revolution of unconditioned intelligence that rejects being anesthetized by nationalistic idealism, religious dogma or monetary gain. These things only put one to sleep, they create the apathy of a dull and unintelligent mind. When one is awakened to the truth then there is the action of intelligence, the unconditioned. It is the outcome of a mind that is totally free and only a mind that is unhindered by accumulations can realize truth.

Revolution creates disturbance. A disturbance in the mind, that takes the 'known' and stands it on its head. To turn everything over in the mind and realize the nonsense of it all. One can only 'know' the self, which is its identity through accumulated experience. One can never 'know' another. Whatever is known is a projection of self. This then is the illumination of self. That which is observed in another is the psychological manifestation of self. It is you.
The outcome of this illumination is intelligence of the unconditioned. The unconditioned is not seeking the proliferation of its opinions and conclusions, because it has none. It is free to discover the truth of the absolute moment. When one lives in the peace of unconditioned intelligence it envelops all who are within its sphere and they sense the peace of a nonthreatening presence. They see that you have no agenda and that you do not exist to manipulate and exploit, but only to provide what can be provided without condition.
The illumination of humanity.

Power and the will to Dominate

One seeks power as a means to dominate and sublimate. But what is power actually? Is not power the outcome of the will to overcome feelings of insecurity and fear. To have control over circumstance. Power implies the will to overcome, to conquer. But whatever is conquered, must be conquered again and again. One seeks power through the accumulation of knowledge, through position, money, and influence. One is in fear. Fear that permeates the mind and is the very essence of conditioned thought. One is looking to protect and insulate the self. The seeking of power is the acknowledgement of weakness and the progenitor of fear.

Power is translated into possession. To accumulate the psychological as well as the material.
Possession is the image of power, the psychological and physical result of fear. Fear that is the root cause of escape from the reality of death, of non-being. To accumulate is to give substance to the image and illusion of self. One lives in a self created reality of possession which is one's isolation. Isolation that is the divisiveness of the self absorbed. The outcome of this division is violence. More so psychological violence to those who one perceives as inferior. One must observe in the moment how one inflicts violence on others, through word or action. It is the reality of who and what one actually is. Whether one is a Priest, Politician, or Businessman, one inflicts pain and suffering on others which is the result of one's power and influence.

When one is free of the image of self, then there is the possibility of virtue. One may cease the activity of using others to further one's position. One has been deluded into thinking that one may helping in the higher sense, but is still the self which is seeking acknowledgement and praise for piety. One can live the life of an acetic, in the outwardly most simplest manner and still be deluded. One's asceticism 'is' one's power and influence. It is one's psychological possession. One must go beyond the self and live in awareness of the movement of thought and its activity of seeking. One must have the realization that self, one's separated individuality is the source of all conflict, fear, and violence. To be totally aware is to be totally free. Within that freedom is the truth of the moment and the reality of love.

The realization of the unconditioned, therein realize peace and love.

Love and Unconditioned Truth

What is Love? Can the human mind conceive of something called love that is not an image of activity and presence? It seems in some ways almost ethereal. It may be that love defies definition because it is not of the mind, but of the heart. The heart is not controlling, it does not seek advantage. But it is entangled in minds desire for satisfaction and security. For the truth of love to flower mind must be still and silent. Most of us create conditions for our love. Because our lives are conditioned, our love is conditional. But is love the conditioned? What we call love may not be love at all, but only our desire to be attached to escape insecurity. The conditioned is incapable of love, it is only capable of manipulation. Manipulation that satisfies its conditions for continued relationship. One is actually looking to satisfy appetites and cravings that are the manifestation of our loneliness, insecurity and isolation.

When one has realized the significance of quieting the mind, then the unconditioned consciousness may displace the conditioning of accumulated knowledge, the known. The unconditioned is absent the self, who is seeking the security of a conditional relationship.
The unconditioned realizes the truth of the moment. It is truth that is without definition, which is realization that is not the result of opinion or conclusion of the conditioned self. It is unconditioned truth. Within that truth is the flower of Love. The heart becomes filled with love that is not affected by minds compulsive divisiveness. Freedom, truth, and love are one in the same they are not separate. They are the wholeness of ones being.

Love is the outcome of the unconditioned. It is only in the moment. It has no agenda and is free of motivation and condition. To love is to accept 'what is' and to be vulnerable to life.

Relationship and the Awakened

What is relationship? Are there different types of relationship? To be related means to have a connection. To be connected is to be whole and at peace. To be unrelated is to be isolated. To be divided and in conflict. All existence is relationship. To live is to give life. We are related to all that is in the cosmos. The smallest most insignificant action in some way affects all that is or will ever be. Thought is engaged in duality and division which is the source of its isolation. The ideation of a self or separated individuality is the beginning of the mania of isolation. The self exist as thought as that which manipulates and causes individualized reaction. But is there any activity that is truly born of individual effort? The self being a product of thought is not separate from it, it is in fact thought. Individuality is the illusion. It is the pretension and extension of thought which is seeking permanence and continuity. One must come to the realization that all that exist is in relationship. To deny relationship is to create division, conflict, and violence. When thought creates the individual, it seeks to further individuality and division.
It adds to the image to give it a sense of power and exclusivity. Its looks for conformity and seizes that which will enhance individuality and isolation.


The self creates this fortress of individuality to stave off the perception of its end, of the reality of emptiness and non-existence. Relationship is the acknowledgement of the reality of the non-dual. The reality of the 'oneness' of existence. All that exist, exist because of relationship which is the causation of its interconnectedness. You could not have life without the life that is, both the sentient and non-sentient. If you owe your existence to all that is, why would you seek to destroy any part of it? To be awakened to this realization is to find the true self and realize the importance of relationship and to realize the full potential of humanity. This potential is the care and love of the cosmos. We may then realize what is in the seed of our consciousness, the consciousness of the cosmos, to care for each other and in so doing create life instead of destroying it.


To awaken to the actual reality of relationship and the fundamental importance of understanding the self and its destructive nature is to be free of it. To act out of intelligence that sees the truth of the moment. Truth that is not the outcome of religious, idealistic, or nationalistic motivations and aspirations. To be selfless is to exist in relationship that is totally free. The outcome of which is the vulnerability of love and the realization of consciousness that is unconditioned.

The Reality of Illusion

Comprehension is not understanding. One comprehends based on one's knowledge. Knowledge is the limitation of one's experience. One can read volumes of books and have encyclopedic memory. But one may still not have understanding which is the intelligence of the moment. To understand is to look directly at what is and to see the truth without reference to self which comprehends according to opinion and conclusion. What understands is the unconditioned, intelligence that is absent self promotion. The dissipation of the preferential.

Many religious paths and methods refer to illusion. It has become a catch all term to create an air of mysticism and exclusion that defies definition. Religious authority figures use the term freely to excuse there ignorance and confound the faithful. But what is illusion? Magicians create illusion that confound and confuse what we perceive as reality. They seem to make the impossible, possible. The mind is easily deluded into thinking and believing in the ethereal. The mind is seeking escape from perceived reality. Reality is pain, suffering, violence and insecurity. Reality is the pain of seeking pleasure, which is avoidance of the undesirable.

Organized religion is in reality a form of entertainment an escape. We delude ourselves with the prodding of religious authority, into believing that we are seeking the higher self. But what we are in reality doing is adding to our isolation. We are creating more division, resulting in further suspicion and violence. If one see's this as a fact, then it may be possible to understand the nature and reality of illusion.

What is reality? Reality is not a prediction, a wish, a projection. We cannot project reality, yet that is what the mind is engaged in. If one can just observe the movement of thought, one will realize that the mind is constantly formulating, calculating, and concluding its own reality. That reality is stored within the confines of self image. Which is the entity that is the conscious self.
That image is the continuity of thought as time. It is the illusion of past, present and future within the context of minds created reality. Actual reality is the absolute moment, without the projection of opinion and conclusion. It is what is, which can only be realized when time has ceased with the dissipation of the self.

What is the illusion? Obviously it is the self, which is caught in time. Caught in its own self created reality. Reality which is delusional and the source of all conflict, confusion and contradiction. This reality is the prison and isolation of our existence. It is the limitation of thought. If one can have insight into the self and the mechanism of thought, then freedom is possible. Not freedom from the illusion, which is not a reality, but freedom that is found through the negation of self. To move away from an ego/centric living to one of intelligence and understanding. To understand the self is to look straight into the unknown and live without fear. One needs the self to function in society and earn a living, but through understanding one is able to live a life that has no center, that is primarily selfless and at peace.

Time, Thought and the Eternal

When one contemplates time, there is movement. There is psychological time and physical time. It takes time to move from point A to point B. The interval between point A and point B is time and its environment is space. Mind separates time and space in order to understand and comprehend physical orientation. Thought is division, it divides and compartmentalizes events and ideas in order to calculate physical and psychological movement. It is the self imposed limitation of thought. Thought cannot go beyond time, so it cannot comprehend that which is beyond space/time which is actually one dimension not two or three. Three dimensional reality is the illusion of materiality. When thought ceases the activity of division and of time/space-thought, there is only one dimension, which is the unknown. The unknown is the only reality.

The unknown is consciousness without time/space which is the movement of thought. The unknown is in the absolute moment. It is reality only if mind is still, not moving. Once mind captures the moment and catalogues it, it becomes two or three dimensional memory. It is a reference point of materiality. It becomes the known and exist as part of accumulated memory.
From these accumulated memories, mind creates its own reality. A selective reality which is based on individual experiences. These experiences are contradictory and and create confusion and disintegration. Thought moves from one experience to another attempting to reconcile opposition within the frame work of perceived image, which is constantly being modified in order to protect and insulate the ego/self. One is constantly engaged in the activity of compromising ones position for the sake of sanity. One may realize just how neurotic most of us actually are. Our neurosis plays out in various ways, some mild, such as nail biting or other physical manifestations. Some more violent in nature.

Thought moves from the past (memory) through the present to the future. This movement is time. The thinker as separate from thought is the space. It is the illusion of thinker and thought. The space between thinker and thought is time. When one realizes that the thinker is the thought, that they are not separate, then it is the ending of space/time. One is in the reality of the moment. It is the realization of the true self and the ending of the me and the not me. One ceases the activity of referencing memory, which is the ego/self. Within this realization is the eternal, that which has no beginning or end. It is the illumination of death, of that which is forever the unknown, that which is the reality of life. To realize death is to find life that is without the angst of being or becoming.

Understanding Desire

What does it mean to desire? How does one understand the nature of desire? One feels a sense of emptiness, so there is longing. The mind wants to be constantly occupied. It is this fear of emptiness that drives desire. Wanting to be somebody, wanting acknowledgement. This accumulation gives a sense of permanence and continuity to our existence. We are slaves to desire because we want to be attached to ideas and objects which give definition to the image we have of ourselves. Desire is the illusion of fullfillment of escape from emptiness, the escape from nothingness. The reality is that we are impermanent, we are in actuality nothingness. Desire provides the escape. We are in fact the essence of non-existence, but mind creates the illusion of materiality. One is unable to understand the nature of mind because one is caught in the activity of knowing of cumulative knowledge. We are attempting to understand ourselves through the accumulation of knowledge. The more we accumulate the more we want to accumulate. It feeds on its self because we never get to a point of satisfaction, of arrival, of understanding. There is frustration with life, because the emptiness is still there. We are caught in the circle of Karma.

What ever we acquire only leads to the desire to acquire more. We may realize that we a going no where, so we may seek answers in religion, in ancient teachings. But that is still the mind that desires. It is still the escape from emptiness. Is there a movement that is the source of desire? Can one understand desire as isolated from the source of desire? Desire emanates from memory, which is the accumulated self. One associates the present with a memory and from that association, desire is formed. The self can only 'know' desire and what ever is known is a contradiction. Desire is the function of self of ego. All desire is conflict, whether one desires the material or the spiritual. If one is intensely aware of thought, just watching without motivation or seeking, then one may realize the sublety of desire. How that every thinking moment translates into some form of desire. The desire is to be, to become that which is the content of ones conditioned consciousness. When one is aware of the 'I' the one who desires, then with that awareness comes understanding, the one who is aware is the desire and that he is not separate from desire. The self, the one who desires is the outcome of desire.


To understand desire is to understand the self. Understanding is its own action. One does not need to engage in any activity of promotion, which is only another form of desire. When one has the realization that the one who desires is in fact that which is desired, then one may realize truth through meditation that is without the desire for a result. Meditation that is not an activity of self. Meditation that is simple awareness of the moment.

Mind, Heart and Mysticism

The unknown has always had an air of mysticism about it. When mind is incapable of defining reality then there is the substitution of the idea of the mystical. So mind not being able to fully comprehend an event or experience creates a category: the mystical. All that cannot be explained and reconciled with the known is the mystical. Many so called 'Holy Men', 'Sages', and 'New Age Divinities' have dangled the 'mystical' in our faces for eons, and said follow me and all will be revealed. "That is, if you are worthy enough, by showing your obeisance". One can be very clever in speech and persona. Many are searching for what they believe to be the mysteries of the unknown. Self styled guru's give them what they want by eluding to there own special talent as a 'knower' of mysticism. One who can unveil the mysterious.


Guru's, Priest, Shamans, and so called Enlightened personalities give talks and lectures, write books, create a following. They are all in the business of providing the 'reality' of the 'esoteric'.
To bring the unknown into the known. One is caught in the search for that which is greater than the self. The heart longs to find that which will give it peace and love. So one becomes enamored by the persona of very clever and pious personalities that deceive and exploit. These self glorified individuals prey upon the weakness of those who are caught in the search for that which is beyond. They feed the illusion of faith and hope by offering so-called secret and esoteric methods to 'attain', which are complete rubbish. This activity services the ego and pocket book of the instigator and it is the highest immorality. If one can truly help another without self motivation and profit then that action is the highest form of love and selflessness.


All religions, whether old and established or new age have an agenda that excludes and divides. This activity of separation is the manifestation of that which causes suspicion and violence.
One finds comfort in the illusion of 'knowing', of having arrived. One may now go to sleep and enjoy the drug of religion and feel secure in the knowledge that one has found one's Guru, or Master. But one is never completely secure, there is always something else to be discovered and 'someone' to show the way. One destroys one's present belief in favor of another that seems more 'hip' or in line with changing attitudes. It is always that way....the guru is destructive of the follower and the follower destroys the Guru. It is the process of the thought and the one who thinks to divide and separate and it is this activity that is destructive i.e. my religion and your religion.


The heart must realize peace and love through the mind. Mind must have the realization of self, of the division that exist within. One becomes aware of the minds duality as thought and thinker. This duality is expressed through one's compulsion, confusion, and disintegration.
One cannot realize through the heart which is longing for the unseen and unknown. The mind must have complete understanding that is not a function of conditioned thought. Only mind can have understanding through negation of the false. When the conditioning of thought has silenced its self and has ceased all movement then the heart takes precedence and realizes peace and love that it not the result of minds divisive motivations.