Differentiation in right and wrong

Why do we think in terms of right and wrong? Is there right or wrong thinking? Is there a state of mind (existence) which is neither? There is institutionalized morality, that which is determined to be right and wrong according to the established belief of a religious or political culture. When there is collective agreement within an organization there are always issues of opposition. What is right and wrong are in a state of constant modification according to changing ideas and opinions. Morality that is caught in time seeks to control according to perceived social necessity. Organizational morality is unavoidably attached to established authority. As that authority is modified or changed so is perception of right and wrong. Authority in an attempt to control for the perceived welfare of society restricts freedom. One is required to live within the enclosure of a conditioned morality.

Conditioned morality is the outcome of authority that seeks legitimacy through codified behavioral modification. One lives by codes of conduct that are in the end repressive and destructive. Authority seeks to create codes to control through the psychological and the physical. One is constantly bombarded by institutional right and wrong, from the political, the religious, and the corporate materialist. One may not even be aware of how one is exposed and influenced by this onslaught of mind control, which is one's actual daily life. This is the immorality of the conditioned morality.

Differentiation is the outcome of a mind that is influenced by that which separates and divides. It is one's conditioned thinking, which is the the projection of beliefs and opinions. Right and wrong is conclusion based on one's individual accumulated experience. If one is aware of conditioned morality within one's self then it is possible to cease the activity of differentiation. Then one does not exist in a world of right and wrong. One exist as freedom which is not freedom from something, but the outcome of understanding of the true self. Seeing truth directly, in the moment, which is not a movement of time (thought). One may realize that right and wrong are the same activity, there is no differentiation, there is only that which determines.

One must realize that right creates wrong and wrong is the insecurity of that which differentiates. One is influenced by external authority and one's own authority. That authority is immorality, because authority is that which corrupts. When one has this realization directly, not through conceptualization, then one is looking through that which is unconditioned. Intelligence that is the outcome of freedom, that which perceives the truth of the moment.

Can one live as the unconditioned?

One has heard many people say that they have experienced a teaching and then observed the personal life of teachers, so-called guru's, priest, and enlightened personalities whose actions and temperment are not at all in line with what they teach. Or they seem, upon close examination not to be what they purport. It is not at all uncommon for one to have intelligence that is the result of a measure of insight. One may speak as an authority on the spiritual and appear to have realized it in one's own life. But appearances are often the result of conditioned response.
The conditioned requires image and the identity of title. There are those who deny title and speak from a non-position, but it is still a form of identification. Denial is the affirmation. One is still seeking acknowledgement through the ideal of non-alignment.

It is easy for one to get caught up in charismatic personalities. There enthusiasm and projection can be hypnotic and intoxicating. In reality they are just entertainment, an escape from the truth of the moment. For one to experience a lasting and transforming realization, it must come from within and not be the result of the external. We live largely on the surface, so our life is superficial, we lack depth of understanding. We try to find something meaningful through others, because we feel we are incapable and must learn from those who "know". The known is yesterdays news, it has no validity except as concept and behavioral modfication. It cannot illuminate the unknown. It is simply the modification of the self, which remains the same....with the same conflict and misery. Inspirational speeches are for the speaker, they do little for the listner. The listner is not really listening, he or she is hearing and referencing. Which is the modification of the known through what is heard. One listens through one's conditioning.

One's personality is cast in very early childhood. That personality is genetic and psychological
and is ingrained by the age of five. From that point on basic personality experiences modfication through the accumulation of knowledge and becomes the known, one's conditioning. Out of this conditioning one developes the identity of self, the ego. If there is 'experiencing' of that which is the unconditioned, then there may be illumination into one's true nature, which is not a modification. It is outside personality and is not continuity of thought, of the ego self. It is independent realization on a level of consciousness that is within the unknown. It cannot be captured and is not an existence in time, but a spontaneous illumination that only has validity in the absolute moment.

One who has realization of the unconditioned is the same person that they have always been with the same personality. Transformation is through negation. Many things drop away of there own accord. Nothing is added there is only the deletion of that which is illusion of that which is conflict and confusion. One is reversing the damage of accumulation, the conflict of attachment.
One's conditioning always remains the conditioned it cannot be modified into 'enlightenment'.

The unconditioned is illumination which is ever the new and never before, it is not a repetition or the result of the learned. It is the re-emergence of intelligence from moment to moment. One can observe the effects of the unconditioned on one's personality and in one's daily life. But the effects are not the way to the unconditioned they are only the outcome. To live life unconditionally, is to accept what is through awareness of that which is conditioned. When one is timelessly aware, then intelligence displaces that which is the conditioned self. It is the cessation of the duality of accumulated knowledge and the one who knows. One who lives this illumination is without conflict, because there is no one to be in conflict. It is the negation of the illusion of self. One who is in the moment is in a state of not knowing. One lives in total freedom, because one is not projecting the creation of self which is the known (knowledge).

Aloneness and Insight

To be alone is experiencing that which is silence of mind. Silence of mind is the non-movement of self of that which is the noise of thought. The mind is ever chattering about the content of consciousness. Thought is restless and ever seeking stimulation and recognition. One can be alone and be in crowd of people or with a few or none. Aloneness is that state of awareness that is the realization of the wholeness of multiplicity, the fusion of the divided, and the understanding of non-dual relationship.

All one or alone is awareness and meditation of that which is absent the duality of self of the one who is engaged. This silence is not an effort or a result, but a realization of intelligence that sees into the very nature of self. Intelligence that reveals the hidden motivations of thought and the subtle machinations of neurotic behavior. One begins to have deep awakening, to be fully aware of every manifestation of conditioned thought. It is as though one moves on a different level of consciousness, a level that is not conditioned and therefore has cognition through stillness and silence. When the mind is quiet, then there is insight into the nature of thought and its relationship to the self and what is known. One observes the movement but is not of the movement.

Aloneness means 'oneness' which is the 'yoga' of light, of total freedom and understanding. It is the wholeness of existence. The outcome of oneness is insight into nature of relationship and understanding through the non-dual. The non-dual is the collapse of recognition through that which is the division of accumulation and the one who accumulates. One can only have meaningful insight when there is a synthesis of the illusion of the separative. Aloneness or oneness is the outcome of this synthesis.

The Politics of the Known

What does it mean to be political? Is it necessary to have a point of view? Political entities and individuals are the labeled. They represent a point of view and an opinion. They live in the self enclosed world of rights and wrongs. They are the authority of an organization that purports to represent. But what or who do they represent? To be political is to exist in opposition to that which does not conform. To have a point of view, an opinion or conclusion sets one's self up for the conflict and violence of attachment and identification. If one is truly free then there is no need to participate in the political. As the Joke goes....I never vote it only encourages them! One may ask how is it possible not to have opinion? The answer is always in the question...it is not possible if one is caught in the movement of time, and we are all caught in times movement, which is our conditioning. It is the very process of thought. The difference is an awakening and awareness of that movement. One moves from the conditioning of time to the present moment which is the unconditioned, the timeless.

If one observes and is aware of what is going on in the world, one must ask, how can one who is free and therefore at peace support that which causes so much misery and violence? One can always justify and excuse and therefore avoid the reality of what is, but it will always reappear and be manifest in other forms to affect one's life negatively. One cannot avoid one can only refuse to acknowledge the truth of the moment. If you support that which is killing and murder then you are as violent as the one who pulls the trigger. You may come up with all kinds of justification for acts of violence....your insecurity....your religious or secular beliefs....your prejudiced....your nationalism, anything to avoid the reality of what is. The cessation of violence has to start with each individual. One has to have the realization that there can be no justification for acts of violence. But one will never realize through that which is conditioned, because the conditioned mind is born of violence. Violence to one's self which is projected outwardly.

One must have a deep understanding of self. One must observe and be aware of the subtlety of conditioned thought and how that one expresses violence even in the most mundane activity. Just observe your own thoughts as you exchange ideas with people how that you are protective of the self and easily offended. Realize the center from which violent thought emanates. To be aware of this activity is its own dissipation. One does not need to condemn one's self, because condemnation is avoidance of the truth. One should stay with the truth of the moment. In that moment is freedom and peace.

One who has no agenda, political or otherwise, lives a life of true freedom. One does not belong to any set of beliefs or to any nationalistic tribalism. Because one is totally free one cannot be corrupted by the violence of that which is political. If you are identified you are already corrupted...you belong to someone or something and it exercises direct or indirect, conscious or sub-conscious control over you. You are the controlled and the manipulated. If you think that you are not...your very denial is affirmation.

To be totally free is the on going revolution of that which is unconditioned. Its outward expression is negation of all attachment and identification. One escapes the definition of the known. One cannot be classified by the political. In the mind of the political one becomes dangerous because one cannot be corrupted by the ideological or the material. One is changed...transformed and when one is transformed so is the world.

Capacity and Clarity

Is it possible for one to have capacity of mind that is not an increase or expansion but a deletion and negation of existing accumulation? Is there a method or practice to this deletion? One accumulates knowledge as a source of expansion. One requires knowledge to survive and exist in relationship. One uses knowledge as a source of understanding and communication. But Knowledge is also thoughts vehicle for the separation and identity of that which is the ego, the separated self. It is the individuality of accumulation within the context of the 'I' the one who thinks, the one who is the content of the conscious and subconscious mind. When there is a separated individuality there is comparison and conclusion. The 'I' who is comparing and concluding is that which is seeking conformity, as a means to continuity. The self requires conformity and continuity in accumulation in order to give a sense of permanence to the illusion of a separated individuality. If one can in the moment observe this activity of accumulation and how one adds to and strengthens self image, then it may be possible, through negation, to observe without accumulating. When one ceases the activity of accumulation, then one may realize that the one who thinks is in fact thought and not separate from thought. Separated individuality is the illusion of accumulation, of the conceptual. There is only pure thought. There is no thinker. The self is the projection of thought, a creation of thoughts desire for permanency.

This realization is the key to understanding that is not a continuity. That is not a conformity. It is the realization of the true self. That which is when all else is not. It is the realization of that which is unconditioned, which is not an accumulation. The unconditioned is the intelligence of the moment. The outcome of this intelligence is creative understanding that is not a repetition, it is consciousness that is action in the moment, action that is absent the conditioned self. When one ceases the activity of referencing accumulated memory then one is no longer caught in the conflict and confusion of opposing opinions and conclusions. One is free to realize the new and never before from moment to moment. One is continuously realizing the truth that is within each moment.


The unconditioned is consciousness that does not accumulate. It is intelligence that is complete experiencing in the moment. Intelligence that is the resolution and dissolution of the moment as it becomes the known. There is no psychological imprint on the mind. This negation of accumulation clears the mind and sets in motion the negation or dissipation of what has already been imprinted on the mind. As memory surfaces as conscious activity intelligence resolves the remembered conflict. Resolution becomes the dissipation of accumulation. One has capacity and clarity of understanding that was previously displaced by the accumulated self.

One must be timelessly aware from moment to moment of the mind that is seeking the continuity of accumulation which gives definition to the conceptual self. It is difficult to be aware from moment to moment, but just the slightest state of awareness sets in motion intelligence that is not of thought. It is the beginning of freedom and of new understanding that is the essence of peace, harmony and love. Awareness is meditation of the unconditioned in the moment, which is absent the movement of thought as the accumulated self. In this state of awareness one will be experiencing freedom that mind cannot comprehend, that is beyond knowing.

One should start slowly, to just be aware of the moment. Do not force yourself to conform to any idea that you may have. Just simple awareness, to stay in the moment, progressing to a level of consciousness that is not a formulation or result. Look directly, without reference to ones experience, without identifying or naming. You will come to the realization of that which is timeless and without movement. It will be your realization and not an artificiality of authority.

Buddhist or Buddha?

What is a Buddhist? What does it mean to 'be' something, to have an identification as this or that? When one is identified with a system of belief, then one is tied to precepts and rituals of an organization that is the embodiment of separation and division. Authority is the outcome of organization. Those who know and those who don't know. One is looking for the gratification of achievement. One seeks acknowledgement through practice and discipline. But whatever is accomplished is self enclosing and only creates suspicion and conflict. As one accumulates knowledge of a practice one only adds to a mind that is already conflicted and confused with many opposing views and beliefs. These accumulations are of the conscious and subconscious mind. Creating an overlay of a new belief with all its rituals and practices, does little to bring one to an understanding of truth. These accumulations are the bondage of the self, the prison of thought. They keep one from having the capacity to realize the truth of the moment. In the moment there is no self, no practice, only that which is the absolute the unknown.


Those in authority create a following around systems of belief and ideals, the practical as well as the esoteric. What they teach seems to point to a way of peace and love. But what is the true motivation of authority? Authority always seeks to sustain a position and with every position there is opposition. This is the conflict and violence of organized religious systems.
Authority becomes the political, that which needs the subservient in order to justify and preserve the continuity of that authority. All authority is corruptible and corrupting.
One may observe this same activity within the self which is its own authority. The ideal becomes one's inner authority. One may observe how this authority creates division inside oneself and is the source of much conflict. Whatever one acquires from the practice of a belief only reinforces the image of self. One is constantly accepting, modifying and rejecting that which is accumulated as a conformity to self image. One can observe how one concludes from this accumulated knowledge and how that one's own authority projects one's inward division outwardly. Because one's life is in a state of opposition, one creates opposition in relationship. One may at once be able to perceive directly, without reference to the known, how that this is a fact of living, that this is ones existence. Direct perception requires a mind that is still, not moving, in the absolute moment. Truth exist only in the moment and mirrors the self. Truth is not found in the affirmation of religious dogma and ritual. But through the negation of self and one's conditioned consciousness which is the source of all division and opposition. When one is totally free then one is a light unto one's self. Perception is direct and not through any authority. For most this is very difficult to accept, because one has been brainwashed and programed since birth to accept images of authority and bow to precepts. Total freedom is insecurity and vulnerability.
It is moving in a totally different direction. It is the new and never before from moment to moment.

One can 'be' a Buddhist or one can realize directly one's Buddha Nature. The illumination of self and the death of all that has been accumulated of "ALL" attachment and identification. One does not 'become' a Buddha, which is only another conditioned attachment. One has the realization that Buddha Nature is a re-creation from moment to moment, it is not a static ideal. One cannot 'know' that one is a Buddha. (past tense/memory). It is a constant, in the moment re-emergence, that is mirrored in relationship. It can never be a symbol of movement or an authority of the conditioned consciousness. It is the unconditioned, the unknown from moment to moment.

If one is totally free then one's mind has the capacity to observe the truth in every word that is spoken or read. When one has negated the authority of self and of all attachment, then all that is mirrors truth. This is Buddha Nature, the unconditioned, the "Yoga" or "Oneness" of non-being, of selflessness.

Death, Immortality and Reincarnation

What is death actually? Is there anything that continues after passing? Can the fact of death be altered by what we do during life? Our whole lives are spent in a state of psychological continuance. The self is ever seeking confirmation of consciousness through activity and possession. We crave the continuity of the known. The known is our possession, it is the image of the psychological and material self. Can the known which is all that memory has acquired, the past, ever understand death which is the unknown. It can only comprehend according to what knowledge it has accumulated. That knowledge is always incomplete and self enclosing. When we engage in the activity of predicting the future we are only projecting the known. Since humanity and all life is habitualistic it is easy to believe in the power or ability to know the unknown. But the unknown is never a repetition it is always the new and never before. The conflict that we experience in life is our need to be constantly adjusting to the lack of 'actual' repetition. Repetition is security. The known is security. Since the unknown can never be the known we are forever in a state of anxiety and confusion.

We want to know the future, to be secure. But life is insecurity, that is the reality. Our escape from it is the result of fear. We cannot fear the unknown. It is not possible to fear something that we have no concept of. Fear always exist in relationship to some ideal. We fear death as the ending of the known of the self. We become obsessed with wanting to know the future, what lies beyond. We seek the counsel of all sorts of fortune tellers, mystics and religious soothsayers.
All in an attempt to find security in the unknown. We see that there is no security in this moment, in this life so we create the fantasy of security in never ending tomorrows, or in the next life, a life after death.

Organized religion plays on our fear of the unknown our fear of death. It is sustained by hope and faith, that is promulgated by religious authority. Inward and outward authority creates a future life that is filled with peace and love. If we are escaping from the reality of this life, of this moment, how will we ever be at peace. If we can observe the self and how that it references the known, the past, in an attempt to create an illusion of security, then we may find freedom that is the starting point for intelligence and understanding. Intelligence is not continuity. It is consciousness that is without conditioned ideals. One dies to the past and to each moment as it becomes the known.

Death is the ending of all referencing to what has gone on before. It is the death of projected reality, of the image of self. Death is change, it is the new and never before, which is the never ending renewal of life. It is the beauty of existence made manifest in human form. There in no ending in death, only change. The conditioned mind is caught in the illusion of beginning and ending. The mind is obsessed with the continuity of the conditioned self. The conditioned can never fathom that which is the absolute moment which is death, the unconditioned. Death is the illumination of life. It is the new person, the new understanding from each moment to each moment. When one is in the moment, existence is an unfolding of the eternal, which is not a movement. Time has no relevancy, there is only that which is immeasurable and unknown.

The concept of immortality is the ultimate refuge of conditioned thought. That what has been will continue in some form in the future. That there is a soul or Atman that will go on though eternity. Immortality is the illusion of security that one is deluded into believing cannot be erased by time. Reincarnation is the concept of an end with a new beginning. That the essence of a being after death incarnates as a new being that has been modified by the activities of prior lives or existences. The new being is the result of karma. But what is it that reincarnates? Is not the concept of reincarnation for this existence and not for anything that continues? Do we not create the concept out of our fear of ending? Reincarnation is the projection of self through time. It is the illusion of conceptual imagery without end. Mind can only think in terms of beginning and ending and to escape from the illusion of self and its ending it creates that which will continue to exist into the unknown. There is great beauty in death, but because we are caught in time we are unable to understand the significance of death that is not a continuity. We only feel the emotion of loss that is the result of our fear of ending, of non-existence.

When one exist in the moment death has no meaning, because one is the deathless, the timeless. There is only the new and never before from each moment to each moment. Death becomes the illumination of life and its realization is peace that is the outcome of freedom.

Timeless Awareness

What does it mean to be aware? Are there levels of awareness? When one is aware is there movement of thought? To be aware means to be consciously in the present moment. One can be consciously aware of the moment and still be referencing thought or the known. Thought is the one who is reaching conclusions about the present moment. The one who is analysing in time through the subjective. One may be consciously aware and still be caught in the movement of time; past, present and future. In choiceless awareness there is a level of consciousness that is absent decision making but it may still be caught in time, in the movement of thought as the one who is suppressing the will to decide on what is choice and what is without choice.



There are those who have written about the present moment and being in the 'now'. But it still requires acknowledgement of a movement, of one who is seeking accomplishment within the ideal of the 'now' or 'present moment'. As long as there is an entity who is seeking a result there is the movement of thought which is time. Before one can realize the absolute moment that is absent the subjective self, one must understand the subtlety of one's conditioned consciousness.
Since one is always seeking self promotion and conformity to the ideal, one is caught in the consciousness of conditioned duality. That which is a separation of the activity of awareness and the one who is aware. When one attempts to create a practice around an ideal, one is only exchanging one kind of conditioning for another. One cannot read a book or listen to a teacher who is saying do this or do that and you will find, without creating an ideal.


Only unconditioned consciousness can realize the truth of the moment. That which is the outcome of total freedom from the known, which is the self. The unconditioned is absent the movement of thought. It is the outcome of the realization of the true self, that which is the timeless. One needs to realize freedom that is not the result of a practice or psychological systematic response. Freedom then is the timeless, which is a mind that is still, but alert and responsive as that which is unconditioned. It is the mind that is intelligent and aware, but totally absent the movement of knowing, which is the naming of 'what is'. To be timelessly aware is to be aware through that which is the unconditioned. It is consciousness that is without the motivation of thought which is a mind that is caught in comparison and result.

How can one exist in the single dimension of the absolute moment? One must be totally free.
One lives the realization from moment to moment of the illusion of conditioned thought. One has complete understanding of the psychological implications of a mind that is caught in the movement of time. The outcome of which is the dissipation of self and of all opposition and conflict. It is the meditation of selflessness. Timeless awareness is meditation that is the full realization of the unconditioned. Meditation that is the illumination of death and of the experiencing of that which is beyond life and death.