Sunday, January 13, 2008

Thought as Movement in Opposition

What is the true nature of thought? Is there thought that is not a movement of the self? What do we mean by 'movement'? Physiologically the brain is a mass of energy producing nuerons that are electrically charged and react to stimulus as response. The developement of minds response mechanism it directly purportional to experience that is accumulated in the physical enviornment. The mind intereprets and reacts according to a pyramid of experience which is continueally being modified as other experiences are added. Psychologically the pinacle of this experience is the experiencer, the one who is identity as the one who identifies. Identification is definition, the conversion of reality into concept. Mind utilizes concept as the reality of self which enables thought as thinker to project experience or the known as predication. The self (ones identity) interprets according to ones defined experience (the known).

The movement of thought is the temporal entity that moves (psychologically) from past though present to future. Thought, the self, is caught in time and cannot move outside it. It can only understand within the limits of its accumulated experience. When thought creates the entity that performs as a projection, it assigns permanancy to its accumulated experience. This entity which is the self is the movement of this experience in time/space. One becomes the image of ones experience. One can only know through ones experience. It is the projection of self, the ideal as formulated by thought. Thought cannot comprehend reality directly, it can only project the experience of the known, which is the accumulated self. Direct experiencing of reality is the outcome of the cessation of thought and the dissipation of self. There is no experience in true reality only experiencing.


Thoughts reality, which is the idealogical self, is two demensional. It is the duality of the thinker and that which he thinks about. This separation of the me from that which is not me is the illusion of thoughts creation, the self. As an ideal there is the posit self and its opposite all that is not the self. When thought creates experiential permancy through the self, it creates the seed of its opposite. One lives in opposition to all that is not a conformity to the ideal self. Only that which is the self conforms to the self. Conformity is the result of identification and attachment to that which is becoming accumulated experience.


The movement of thought as self through time/space is opposition. That opposition is all that is the not me. This duality is the illusion of thoughts movement. There is no time/space, there is only the absolute moment. Its realization is the cessation of all opposition. If one can observe in the moment the opposition of conditioned thought as the projection of self, then it is possible to go beyond time/space to that which is the realization of the unconditioned. Consciousness that is not a movement, but a stillness that is without motive. One can have a profound realization of an intelligence that transcends all existence.

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