Understanding and the Unknown

One frequently has conversational exchanges with people on a variety of subjects. Inevitably those exchanges lead to the problems they are encountering in life. People read these meditations and say that they understand some of what is said, but that they just can't grasp the full significance of what is written. Understanding the accumulated self and then realizing the true self is a arduous undertaking. It is frought with the many pitfalls of a mind that is in constant conflict. Thought tends to follow the path of least resistance. Thought as the self is constantly falling back on the known as its point of reference. The known is the familiar, that which is security. One defines the moment through the known, so it is very difficult to have a realization that is totally in the moment. One can only realize the truth of what is when all else is not. One does not completely realize that one is blocked by the fact what one is attached to the accumulated self and its ideals. One does not realize that one is still seeking the ideal, the self created. So what realization one has is still the outcome of a mind that seeks. This is not to say that one has not opened door, but to step though the door one has to let go of the self, the one who is the outcome of thoughts desire for permanency.

There are many self styled guru's who will give you a system to follow and fill your head with unnecessary concepts and religious precepts. It only adds to ones conflict. One should realize the simplicity of meditation that is the negation of all conflict. Meditation that is the release of all attachment and the negation of identification with an ideal. True meditation is not "seeking" a release it is the release. It is the moment the self is not. In that moment one may realize that which is not a product of thought. It is the clarity of what is and its outcome is understanding that is without the motivation of a mind that is seeking to escape or to find. Meditation may be realized as a state of constant understanding that sees the truth in each moment as it is observed as what is. When in the moment, there is no observer, there is only observation that is free of any attachment. Its origin is not the result of reference. It is a spontaneous realization of truth that is the outcome of total freedom. A meditative mind realizes the truth of each moment, because for such a mind the true self is mirrored in each and every circumstance of life. One sees the self in every encounter. That is why one is not concluding, comparing or judging. One realizes the illusion of self as the psychological projection of the accumulated. In order to conclude or to compare one has to reference the known, which means that one has moved away from the reality and truth of the moment. If one is serious about realizing the truth of what is, one should not concern one self so much with method that implies accomplishment, but with the simplicity of the negation of that which implies the self as the movement of time.

If one tries to reach an understanding through the self, then one gets caught in the conflict of opposition. The self is "opposition" to the reality of what is. It is because the self is concluding that it cannot realize the moment as true reality. The known which is the self can never comprehend the unknown. So there must be a cessation of that which is projecting the known for the unknown to flower as the reality of the moment. Then one will have understanding that is not of the self, that is not a reaction born of what was. One will no longer follow or seek. One will realize that the negation of the self from moment to moment is the affirmation of the oneness of life and the dissipation of all conflict and violence.

Only the separated self can conclude, because the self is looking for the affirmation of what was, the memory of self as the projection of a sustained image. One is seeking to protect and preserve ones defined reality, the reality of the intellectualized separate self. The concept of self is the illusion that is the most difficult to understand, because mind is incapable of grasping the unknown. The known is the self, which is the illusion of the separated. The unknown is the reality of the moment, it cannot be made to conform to the self, unless it is interpreted through what was. But then it is no longer the moment it becomes a part of ones illusion of knowing. This may all seem complicated, but only because one is grounded in illusion. Once one has made the journey and relieved oneself of all attachment and identification, then there is only the simplicity of what is.