Subjective Reality

Why does one think in the subjective? Is there thought that is not the subjective? Seeking answers through that which one "knows" is a form of referencing. It is deductive and inductive reasoning. To logically formulate from a set of perceived facts. But perceived facts involve the individual proclivities of self (subjective) which is projected by the one who observes. One observes according to ones individuality. It is impossible to separate the subject from that which is being observed. The individual is always part of what is observed, in point of fact he or she is what is observed. This realization is very important because thought is always grounded in the subjective. There is not thought and then that which thought observes, there is only the perception of thought as that which is observed. What ever is observed is the subject. Subject and object are one in the same. One conceptually defines the other. So what is observed is always contaminated by the observer. Thought is the subject that projects and what it projects is always the subjective. This is the illusion of the conceptual.

One often talks about the dissipation of the self, of the subjective. One cannot voluntarily eliminate the subjective. It is ones survival mechanism. It is the relationship of that which is the instinctual perception of reality as the movement of time. But it is possible for one to have a full realization of the effects of subjective and objective reasoning. One only needs to look at the results of ones life. Not just your immediate family, your work, and relationships, but how you affect all that is. What one does affects "everything". If one can look without the self that is concluding and judging, then one will realize a truth that is not tainted by subjective accumulation. How does one look without the subjective? There is no book of instruction, no formula that can be followed. Whatever is sought is the illusion of subjective reality. Many will give you words to follow or a method, but in the end it will only lead one to the conclusive. The illusion of achievement or non-achievement. One will go on as one has before in the conflict, confusion and violence of the self absorbed.

When one is grounded in the consciousness of the self one is aware only on a subjective level. That is, one is thinking in terms of the self. Whatever one experiences is seen through the self, the subjective, so one realizes only that which affects the self either directly or indirectly. The self is the reference point, the beginning and end of thoughts movement. The subjective is always that which is conditioned, that which is absorbed with image as the movement of thought.

One may ask, is there thought that is not the result of conditioned self? Can one transcend the subjective? If one can realize a moment in which one has a consciousness that is the direct seeing into the nature and origin of time/thought/movement, then it is possible to have a realization of the unconditioned. Consciousness that is outside the self, that which is not a movement. It is a realization and experiencing of mind that is in a meditative state of timelessness. There is only that which is in the absolute moment. Within that moment is the illumination of the truth of all that is existence. It is not something that one cultivates or is trained to achieve. It is not an achievement or an objectified accomplishment. One may never experience, all one can do is be aware. Awareness that becomes a living, breathing, walking, talking meditation. Ones consciousness may be active and reasoning, but one is totally aware and in the moment. It is like two people walking side by side one is talking and one is listening. The one that is talking is the self as the movement of thought. The one that is listening is the consciousness of the unconditioned, the truth of the moment. Illumination is the dissipation of all duality, which is the meditation of the timeless.