Repetition of the Known

What is knowing and the known? Why is the mind habitual in its thoughts and conclusions? The known is ones accumulated knowledge. Thought utilizes the known as a basis for the separation of self from that which is knowledge. One becomes identified with elements of the known and through attachment establishes an identity. In reality, all that is known and accumulated becomes the self, most psychological elements of the self are in the subconscious mind. Because the separated self accumulates, one is always in a state of consternation about past events affecting future security. The mind does not let go of the past it relives the past as the projected present. To be free of the known is to realize the peace of the present moment. But the self does not want to live in the moment because the moment is the unknown. So one lives in the repetition of the past. Projecting the self (the known) into the moment is ones escape from what is. It is the avoidance of truth and the substitution of what should be. What should be, is ones conclusion as the projected self (which is the result of the referencing of the past).

There is security in repetition. One can know what is going to happen, because one projects the known. One may have the realization that one lives in the illusion of the projected and not in the reality of what is. One is in conflict because the moment does not conform to the known and to the projection of ones separated reality. One wants to create a reality of conformity but it does not exist so one is in conflict. One may become psychologically unstable and violent as a result of ones projected opinion and conclusion. It is all the result of a mind that is caught in time, in the illusion of self. Repetition of the known is the mantra of belief, the hypnotic state of control and being controlled. One is under the influence of systems of organization and belief. One projects the illusion of these attachments. One cannot possibly realize freedom, because one is completely self absorbed. The self which is the product of the known and the believed.

To realize freedom that is the not the result of self motivation and greed, one must realize the truth about ones self. One must see how that one is totally a product of ones experience and knowledge. One is the equation of ones psychological environment. Only when one looks at what is without the accumulated and opinionated self does one begin to realize. It is very difficult because thought is so programed to attachment and belief. Thought wants to look through the past, through the self. Whatever one does will not bring realization. Doing is the problem. One just has to knock down the false and clean out the mind. When one is not doing, or thinking, when there is no movement of time, the realization will come and one will be free.