Individuality and the Unconditioned

As humans we all have physical and psychological traits that are the result of our heritage. Genecologically we are cast with elements that allow for differentiation in appearance and physical agility. Culturally and in terms of ethnic origin we display differences that are the result of our environment. All these perceived differences are compounded further by language barriers that result in difficulties with communication. Language its self is one of the most insidious causes of irrationality, confusion and misunderstanding. All the aforementioned attributes combine to formulate an identity and an individuality within an identified cultural and ethnic tribe. When a person conforms to a group of similar individuals, psychologically one finds to a degree, the illusion of security. The result of this feeling of security is the desire to commit to actions that further the euphoria of conformity. The mind seeks understanding and definition through the division of thought. Thought as the self attains its personification as one becomes more identified with the activity of conformity as an end to a means. The end being the defined self, the me, I, the one who is and thinks as an individuality. But individuality as a concept is very misleading. The individual is the result of conformity, which is by definition not individualistic at all, but by all accounts pluralistic. The psychology of the self is a hodge poge of identification with collected memories that have been given some semblance of logic that projects a cognizant image of individuality. One can never escape the self illusion of individuality as defined egoity. It can only be understood and that understanding varies with ones level of consciousness. When ones consciousness is unconditioned, that is one has complete understanding that is not a projection of the the dual nature of thought, then there is a dissipation of self. It is a dissipation of the activity of conformity. Then mind is in a state of timelessness. There is no movement of the self as an identity in the moment. There is only the truth of the moment. That truth is not a universal realization or some sort of ethereal intelligence. It is the moment in which the self has realized its own movement and as such sees into the illusion of the image producing mechanism of thought. The out come of this insight is the true self. That which is without the conditioning of the past as a defined individuality.


What makes the illusion of self such a psychological complexity is the minds inability to observe independently of its own time based intelligence. When thought is caught in time, in the movement of past, present and future, it is bonded to a self created reality. That reality becomes the neurosis of a mind that is enslaved by a consciousness that is the result of its conditioning. When one is totally aware of that conditioning then it is possible to realize a consciousness that is independent of all the influences of a mind that has been trapped by its own self created illusions. Total awareness is only in the moment, there can be no movement of the self created as an individuality. One gives up the illusion of self as the known for the reality and truth of the unknown.

We exist in a world that constantly bombards us with images of the ideal. The mind clings to the fantasy of the ideal which further exasperates the crisis of identity that all humans grapple with. To let go of all this symbolism of faith and hope is to realize that which is not of thought. It is an understanding that is the freedom of the absolute moment. The moment as the totality of existence, the selfless consciousness of the unconditioned.