The Dissipation of Projected Reality

What do we mean by projected reality? What is actual reality and are we capable of understanding that reality? As humans we are the pinnacle of that which thinks, of that which is capable of rendering an existence entirely in our minds. The human mind is the greatest survival mechanism in the known universe. It seems that we are capable of overcoming almost any detriment to our continued existence. Yet we are a most destructive force, to ourselves and to all we encounter. Our mind is both the creator and the destroyer of life. We live a life within our mind (the ideal) and seek to create that life, that ideal, externally. We view the universe and existence through our ideals. We seldom see and accept life simply for what it is.

One can debate 'reality' in ad infinitum and never arrive at a consensus. But a definition of reality is of its self only conceptual conjecture. The movement of thought is caught in time, in definition in word, it is the remembrance of experience and the application of that experience. The result of this movement is thoughts concept of reality. A reality that is caught within the limitation of thought/time. One can assert that because thought is limited true reality can never be known. This assertion may be the key to an insight. "The known is limited", therefore what is known is entirely the result of one's conceptual understanding. Understanding that is interpretive and the result of one's individual conditioning. All thought is conditioned by individual experience and capacity. As one is engaged in the acquisition of knowledge that knowledge is censored by the conditioned self. One rejects, accepts or modifies that knowledge to conform to one's concept of self and of one's concept of reality.

One's conceptual reality is orientation through definition. The known is definition, definitive reality, that which is thought, as movement through time. If one has full realization of this movement then it is possible for one to observe this movement independent of self. That is, one is aware of the movement of the definitive self as a separated entity. If one is actually aware of this entity in the moment and not as concept, then it is possible to be experiencing without the censorship of that entity. The negation of that entity, the ego/self, is the dissipation of that which it projects. The self is seeking conformity to the known, what it knows and is comfortable with. It is projecting its own reality into each and every circumstance. But that reality is always in conflict to one degree or another with 'what is'. One seeks to change or avoid 'what is' so as to escape from this conflict. Through direct 'experiencing' one may realize that all conflict is actually self created and exist only within the context of the known.

The known is one's conditioned reality, it is the representation of all that we think we are, one's identification and attachment. Projected reality is the self that is seeking continuity and relevancy in the moment. One must have the realization that this projection is a movement in time away from the actual reality of the moment. The real is the unconditioned, to observe without an entity that is observing is to realize the truth of the moment. It is the absence of opinion and conclusion and the acceptance of what is. The outcome is intelligence of action that is not a result or a reaction. It is full realization of projected reality as the projection of all that is the self.