Cessation of the Defined

What does it mean to define? When one defines what are the psychological implications? If one ceases the activity of constantly defining, is there cause and effect? When we name an object or event we give it definition. It becomes word, a point of reference. This point of reference is utilized to communicate ideas. It is language that is the expression of the commonality of perceived reality. The outcome of definition is the logic of deductive and inductive reasoning. It is the mathematics of linear thought. To define is to conclude, to have an answer, to reason out an opinion. Linear thought is caught in time, it is a movement of the temporal. There are those who have sought out what is commonly known as non-linear thought, but one questions this assumption based on the fact that one can only think of the non-linear through that which is linear. So it is still linear thought which is always of time. For there to be the non-linear there must be a cessation of the linear. Thought as movement through time must cease.

Definitive reality is a psychological interpretive. Actual reality is filtered through the experiential mind which is reasoning and assigning definition. Thought moves through psychological time away from 'actual reality' to a 'perception of actual reality'. This perception is the result of time, which is the comparison and conclusion of the known or defined. To define is to deny the reality of the moment and to move away from the truth of what is. One is seeking what should be in what was. The result of this activity is the confusion and conflict of that which does not conform to defined reality. One becomes psychologically distressed and consumed with altering actual reality to fit within the framework of perceived reality.

Thought seeks a cause and effect relationship within the defined that forms a chain of events. This activity further strengthens perceived reality. One is able to predict the outcome of an event. Thought creates the concept of defined events. Thought utilizes defined events as reference, to measure, compare and conclude. This is the state of a mind that is seeking conformity to the known. Perceived reality is conceptual in nature, it is never actual reality, it is only an approximation. The known is always past tense, it is never the true reality of the moment.

When one is no longer defining reality or naming the moment, and if one is acutely aware, a transformation begins to takes place. Thought is no longer a movement that is caught in time/space. The outcome is awareness that is timeless, without self. One observes without an observer and realizes the true reality of the moment. All that was has no meaning, there is only the eternal moment which is the cessation of the defined. When one ceases the activity of defining reality in terms of the known then one is accepting change, one is accepting what is, the new from moment to moment. One is no longer caught in time bound thought. Mind ceases the activity of seeking conclusion and opinion. One has understanding that is not a movement, but direct perception that is in the moment.