Spirituality that is devoid of Concept

What does it mean to be spiritual? Is spirituality an agenda to be promoted or a condition that is an image of self? In life one is continually seeking explanation. One wants to know so that one may live with a sense of security. One wants to feel that ones life is not just a random set of circumstances that have resulted in a consciousness of being. Existence is confusing and riddled with conflict, so one wants to find order in perceived chaos.

The mind that is seeking creates what it seeks. One may explore the teachings of those in antiquity and of those in the new age and from this formulate that which is sought. One may construct elaborate theories about the spiritual which may include 'ascended masters', 'saviors','Buddhas', and all manner of ethereal systems toward the attainment of the spiritual. But what is the true reality of all this effort? Can one define that which is not a projection of mind? Surely that which is a product of mind is only mind, whether it be a spiritual ideal or an ethereal experience.

An experience that can be defined and therefore repeated, cannot be anything but the projection of self. If one can come to the realization that one must negate any movement that precipitates an image, then one may experience that which is beyond the defined and therefore the known. One cannot 'know' what is beyond the self, one can only negate that which is illusion. When the mind is at rest not moving, in a state of 'not knowing', then it is possible to realize an intelligence that is not the product of thought. One cannot seek out this intelligence, one can only "clean out the house" so that there is capacity. One may realize or one may not realize, it is not an accomplishment of effort or a measure of piety. When "all" else is not it is.

Words and definitions like spirituality, god, buddhas, saviors, enlightenment, rebirth etc. are all loaded with the baggage of emotion and identification. They only have meaning that we give them. They are the image of our desire, the projection of that which we seek. The word is not the reality, it is the illusion of self. The negation of self is the realization of the moment, which is the illumination of that which is beyond knowing.