Search and the Activity of Seeking

Why do we seek? Can a mind that is in conflict and confusion find that which is not? We seek because we want to find that which will give us peace in this life and beyond. We want to find security in 'knowing'. But does 'knowing' ever bring understanding that is the 'final solution'? The known is conflict and confusion, because it is simply the extension and projection of self, which understands only according to the limitations of thought.

Mind seeks because it is trapped in a never ending circle of fear. The fear of not knowing. That fear, is the ending of self. Mind must constantly be occupied, otherwise there is the void, the precipice of the unknown. Mind seeks permanence through continuity. Thought travels within the void and seeks to escape from that which is the reality of the moment. In the absolute moment when that which is the self has realization of truth then one may find that which is not a continuity or conformity. One is aware of a movement that is the dissipation of 'selfness'. One senses existence that is absent a Principal or the one who is sensation. There is no connectivity with an ideal. One sees through the superficial to the deepest layers of mind and existence. It is clarity that has left the image of self and as such realizes the truth in every relationship and every encounter.

One replaces the activity of seeking with the action of understanding. One discerns the truth of the moment in every teaching and in every relationship, whether it be a sage or a child, one sees truth in all that is. Only one who is 'complete freedom' can live in the moment and realize the true self. The outcome of this realization is a totally new way of living. One realizes peace that was always there, one is no longer confused and in conflict. One ceases the activity of seeking because one realizes that there is nothing to be found. One listens to all, and accepts all with an understanding that is not of self motivation or conditioned response.

The truth is found through the negation of the false, but can only be realized when one has negated the authority of self. One has full realization of the conditioned self and the duality of thought which projects that which it seeks. When one is timelessly aware of the movement of thought within the context of the thinker, the one who censors, then there is dissipation of duality and the cognitive understanding of 'oneness' that is not conceptual conjecture.