The Solution is in Simplicity

The mind is naturally inquisitive. Its what it means to be human. We gather information and material in order to exist. It is part of our survival mechanism. The more that we accumulate the more secure we feel. But when we become psychologically attached to our accumulations, they then become our identity. When this very subtle transition from having to being takes place our lives become very complicated. When utilization becomes ownership there is a very deep psychological mutation that takes place. We become our acquisitions, psychologically. It is the result of insecurity and fear that is prompted by desire. So one lives as the acquisitive, seeking to acquire more and more in an attempt to define the self. One seeks power in what is accumulated in order to overcome insecurity. The more one accumulates the more one has to accumulate. Accumulations may be in the form of wealth as money and property or the spiritual in the form of people who believe and follow. But it is all the same the desire to become through what is accumulated. One should realize that it is a very subtle activity and very difficult to realize directly in ones own life. We want to cling to our beliefs and to our property because we are identified with it and what it is associated with, the power and influence that it seems to create within. It is very difficult to realize in the absolute moment that it is all just an illusion, a transitory projection of the mind that is seeking. In reality nothing has value or significance except what is assigned by the mind. Life is complex because we make it so. We are so utterly consumed with our own persona and its image that it is difficult to realize the beauty and intelligence of simplicity.

The absolute moment is the purest form of simplicity. It is consciousness that is absent the past as memory and therefore the future as projection. The moment does not contain your dreams and desires, it contains only what is. It is reality that is absent the self that is conjuring images and definitions in an attempt to become something or to acquire something. To live in the moment is to chuck all that garbage that is in your mind and create space for intelligence which is the outcome of clarity. When one stops making choices, then one stops accumulating. Choiceless awareness leads to a quieting of the mind. A realization may occur, one may realize that all of the minds accumulations are the attachments that hinder one from directly seeing the truth of the absolute moment, from realizing the true self. If one realizes the true self then it is possible to be experiencing timeless awareness in which there is a total dissipation of self. It is the illumination of that which has no beginning and no end.

Simplicity cannot be artificially induced by "acts" of simplicity such as giving away all worldly possession and living as an ascetic. That is not simplicity, that is the conditioned mind that is still seeking to acquire. Only one is greedy for the perceived simplicity of the spiritual, one is still caught in the illusion of the mind that desires. Simplicity starts with an awareness of the movement of thought as that which is seeking to become. If one is aware directly of ones own mind and its acquisitive nature, then that is the beginning of an understanding and insight into the origin of conflict. One needs only to be aware from moment to moment of the true motivations of the self that is seeking reality in image. Simplicity is the outcome of freedom. Freedom that is not freedom from something, but that which is when the self is not.