Finding the True Self

People generally do not want to face the actual reality of the moment. What you are in the moment is a repetition of all that goes on in the world. All the hate, dissatisfaction, and utter confusion that is the self is reflected in the world. What you see is what you are. What you speak defines your motivations and your ignorance. To seek its opposite is to fuel the repetition of the very thing that you seek to escape. When one lives in illusion one seeks escape in the self created images of the divine. The divine whether it is Buddha, Mohamed, Christ or Xyz makes no difference because it is your creation, your escape from the world you have created. But you cannot escape because the escape is the problem, it is ones refusal to accept responsibility for the state of ones existence. Can a person realize the actual state of ones being, how that it is shaped by opinion and conclusion? If you are caught up in images of self projection, the illusion of the ideal, then you are not able to see. You are blinded by your conditioned mind. A mind that sees and interprets only according to its beliefs.

If you can walk away from all the accumulated psychological nonsense that shapes your attitudes and actions, then perhaps you will realize the truth of the moment. Can you look as though you were a blank page? As a pure "intelligence" that has no agenda or mission in life. One who is not looking to make a dollar or manipulate another into a self serving activity. Can you accept the reality of insecurity? Can you live in the unknown, in the actual reality of the moment? If it is possible for you do this then you will realize an existence of peace and joy. You will see the futility of living life as an organism that is obsessed with acquiring, the futility of a mind that is acquisitive and self absorbed.

Having realized the truth, how will you live? Will you try to change yourself? Or is the realization the change, the transformation that is not an activity of the self. Do you see that the self is the problem. It is the illusion of thoughts need for continuity, of permanency. Thought as the self is the problem, it is the result of ones conditioning. All thought is conditioned because thought its self is a product of conditioning, it cannot be otherwise. So when thought as the self is not, the truth is. With the dissipation of the self, a consciousness that is unconditioned comes into being, it is the realization of the true self. The unconditioned is not a result it is always there in the absolute moment, but it is covered over by the self that is seeking and acquiring.

The true self is without definition or identity. It is as pure and absolute as death. The reality of the unknown is its truth. That which cannot be touched by thoughts desires and beliefs.