The Accumulated Self is Conflict

Life is disturbing because one is disturbed. Most of humanity is lost in a sea of confusion and conflict. All the violence in the world is self inflicted. It is not outside the self, it is the self. The world mirrors what is within the accumulated and formulated self. The end to all conflict and violence starts with ones self. One can only understand the violence that is within. One cannot understand what is within another, one can only understand the self which is mirrored in the relationship that exist with another. One must get intimate with the self and realize the origin of all conflict. Do not look outside your self and point a judgemental finger at another. One is only pointing at a mirror. One is looking at the projection of self. This is a very important realization. One must realize that all conflict and violence begins with the self and it is in fact the self. One sees conflict and violence because one is conflict and violence. The self is that which is separated and alienated. One continually alienates through the activity of identification and attachment. This activity creates conflict, it is the outcome of the duality of the me and the not me.

When one has the realization, is actually experiencing in the moment the conflict of the self, then it is possible for one to move in a different direction. When all ones senses come to bear on the absolute moment, when all that is looks at what is, without the distortion of that which is caught in time, then one may experience illumination. That which is without definition, that which cannot be named. Because one has understanding that is not of time, one is free of all conflict. All attachment and identification drops away as dead leaves from a tree. The new and never before comes into fruition. The accumulated self falls into the background and is relegated to its place as the instinctual activity of that which seeks survival.

One lives as the unconditioned, consciousness that is without motive or agenda. To live totally in the moment, free of the conflict of the conditioned self. One may think that it is not possible to live as such, one has to many responsibilities. Because one is caught in time, in becoming and achieving, a slave to the desires of self, trapped in the illusion of projected image, one is blind. It only takes the smallest amount of awareness to light the candle and to begin to see. Once lit, it can never be extinguished. When one has experienced that glimmer of light one can never go back, because one has realized the true self.