Rationality

What is rationality? Does it bring peace of mind? Does logical thought lead to an "answer" or a "solution"? Why does the "answer" always create another question? A line of logical thought, if taken to the extreme, always leads back to its origin. The question and the answer are one in the same. One is seeking a direction. So one creates a plan of action, a formula for success that provides answers to perceived problems. In the mind there is the duality of the seeker and that which is sought. It is the self created conflict of the problematic. Mind as a movement is ever seeking to establish an identity as that which gives a sense of permanence. This entity seeks an expansion of its self through the accumulation of the material and the intellectual.


Rationality is the manner in which we proceed to mentally acquire and conclude. What is rational thought depends on ones perspective. It is a process that is largely influenced by ones culture, experience, and perceived motivational realities. One can, in ones own mind, rationalize the killing of people if it is "perceived" as preventing ones own demise. There are no rational absolutes, there is only the perception of the self absorbed. Rational is what is rational for the self and its continuance.


Can a mind that is in the conflict and confusion of opposing ideals be rational. If one gives much attention to what is in the mind/memory, one can instantly realize that one is constantly in opposition. One will agree and disagree with what is within and wrestle with ones own mind, with what is perceived as a rational response to circumstance. What is the outcome of ones rationality? What is the reality of the moment? Have people been exploited? Have people been killed? Is there personal benefit beyond life's necessities? Is there destruction of the earth and its resources? One must realize that there is no rationality, there is only the projection of ones own mind. What is rational is irrational. There is only the truth of what is in the absolute moment. One only needs to look without the mind that is concluding and justifying.


One can go through life with a mind that is oblivious to the realities of the moment, that exist within the illusion of ones self created rationality, or one can be awakened to the truth. Because one seeks the security of repetition one will probably go on as one has. One will continue to live in ones confusion, conflict and violence. But if one realizes that ones rationality is the projection of ones conditioning of ones beliefs and desires, then it possible for one to come upon that which is not a continuity. Something totally new, that moves one in a different direction. But one cannot realize that which is untainted by the mind if one dwells in the duality of the rational. As long as there is the movement of thought as time, as the self, one rationalizes existence.

The "rational" can never experience the truth of the moment. Rationality is escape from what is into what should be. Rationality is the illusion of answer and solution to that which is created by the mind that is confused and in conflict. One must see that ones rationalizations are only a continuance of the fear and violence that is within the self absorbed. If one can fully realize this one important fact then one may find peace that is not a result of time.