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).