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.