Who Are You This Moment?

Are you the image you have concocted, the result of your phantasmic experience? Are you the projection of your latest belief, the book you have just read, the lecturer that is the latest fad? Or are you the simplicity of this very moment? Is there understanding into the source and origin of the self that is seeking an image? People build monuments to the image they have of themselves. They create small empires that project their self importance, whether it be the material or the psychological or both. They are captives of the known, of that which is the self serving reality of illusion.

One can see, if one has the capacity, all the self created conflict of those who claim to "know". What is known is the projected conflict of inner authority. Authority in whatever form is always corruptible and corrupting. It is the antithesis of freedom. One cannot "know" and realize freedom. Freedom from the known is the only true freedom. It does not involve "something" to be free from. It is freedom that is the negation of all save the true self. It is the truth of the absolute moment that is free of all conclusion and judgement. One must be totally aware of the conflicting nature of the self and its accumulations. It is conflict that becomes the violence of the separated, the one who projects the division of the "known", that which is within the conditioned consciousness.

When a person consciously stays with the moment and is aware of the movement of thought away from what is, then an insight may occur. One may realize the truth about the self in that moment, because one is not escaping psychologically into the past or the future. The self that is the absolute moment has no definition or identity because there is no movement of time/space as thought. The moment reveals the true self. Its reflection is in what is. In that moment one is transformed, a new entity is realized. That entity is re-realized from moment to moment. It is the illumination of the unconditioned.

If you truly realize who you actually are in the moment then you will have no agenda to promote, no image to project. In the absolute moment you are free. There is no past or future. There is only the timeless, that which has no beginning or end. There is no movement of thought as time, there is only the eternal moment in which one realizes the intelligence of simplicity.