Does One Believe or "Understand"?

One has said that belief is an extension of desire. Desire seeks the affirmation of the projected image of self. As one accumulates experience that experience is utilized to formulate the self, the psychological individuality. The formulated self is looking to sustain an image, a presence that is more or less a continuation of the memory of the past. The continuity of self is so ingrained in the human psyche that it is very difficult to realize the true reality of self that is not a projection of thought. Thought seeks belief through the self. Thought wants to believe in something that can become an attachment and therefore give identity and continuity to the self. This is why it is difficult to have understanding that is not a projection of self. Even the most enlightened find it necessary to be totally aware of the movement of self from moment to moment in order to displace belief with understanding.

Timeless awareness does not conquer and relieve one of the angst of self, it only creates a capacity in which one may understand the process. The self goes on as it always has, the self seeks its own expansion as it accumulates. Through awareness that is without the movement of self one understands and sees into the very nature of this process. Understanding is not a process its self, it is observing without the observer. It is the cessation of the one who creates choice. When there is self there is duality. Duality is belief and awareness is understanding. In understanding there is not the other as opposition to the identity of self. When the movement of self has been understood as that which opposes, then one may truly understand the nature of thought as the conflict of the separated. If one is in the moment then one may realize illumination into the source of all conflict. One may realize that it is possible to end all conflict through the understanding of what is. When one is not escaping into belief or any other projection of a mind that is seeking, then it is possible to realize the truth of the moment. One may discover peace in the simplicity of the moment.

Mind seeks the repetition of what was as the continuing validation of a belief. That validation is the psychological support mechanism for maintaining the illusion of a separated self. One recreates the illusion of belief by aligning it with conflict and creating the duality of that which is sought (ones beliefs) through its opposite, conflict. One must have the profound realization that conflict contains the seed of its opposite, that which one believes in. They are one in the same, belief is conflict.

How does one realize an existence that is free of conflict? One must unravel all the psychological attachments that one has accumulated. One must be aware in the moment of the movement of thought. One must see into the nature of the formulation of conclusion that is based on the projected illusion of self. Because one is caught in time as the movement of a separated entity, one cannot realize the illusion of one's self created conflict. This realization is beyond deductive or inductive reasoning. When one references through the activity of thought, one creates a conceptual ideal. One escapes the reality of the moment for the ideal of what should be. Timeless awareness is "seeing" into this movement. It is the negation of the conceptual and of the illusion of self.

Understanding is in the moment and without the projected self as conflict and belief. One cannot be experiencing true understanding unless one has realized freedom. One must throw off all attachments to the accumulated past. The mind is a maze of complex ideological images, that frequently oppose one another. Ones attachment to these images is the source of all conflict. One cannot experience true understanding until one has observed, without judgement or conclusion, the activity of opposition that is in the moment. One is aware of the movement of images of conflict whereas one sees into the true nature of the self. The outcome of this awareness is freedom that is absent the image of the projected self.