Dying to the Past

What do we mean by the phrase "dying to the past"? The mind whose thought has its origins in the desire for self perpetuation, the desire to attain, to succeed, whether in the materialistic or spiritual is bound to be caught in illusion. But if the mind is capable of dying psychologically to the past, the past which is its accumulated experience, the past which is the perpetuation of the self, then one may realize that there are no paths to truth. There is no formula that can lead one to an understanding of the truth of what is. When the mind dies to the past as the psychological memory of what was and the desire for security, it is only then that the true reality of the absolute moment comes into being.

If one can die to the past fully and completely so there is no residue of desire or conclusion that can be clung to, die to every form of conditioning, then one will realize an understanding that transcends both life and death. When the mind ceases the activity of accumulation, that which remains is the unknown, the only true reality. If one realizes a state of existence that is the unknown, then one has realized the true self. Because the true self is the actual realization of death in the moment. We realize in that very moment that life and death are one in the same. That they are not two states of reality but one, it is the essence of the unknown.

When the past is psychologically eliminated as a reference point then one may experience a freedom that is not the result of something achieved or desired. Freedom brings a clarity of understanding that is not connected to what has been. That understanding sees into the mind that is embroiled in the relativism of ones culture and experience. One realizes that ones life has been subjected to the prejudiced and bias of psychological relativism. The separated and divided self is the product of thought and its realization in the moment is the truth of the actual.
When one is choicelessly aware in the moment then the moment is what it is. That awareness sees the true self in what is. There is no movement as thought away from that truth. Time/space loses its relevancy. It is the end of all conflict and violence.