The Conflict of Choice

Some people have asked how is it possible to be totally free when life demands that you make decisions and choices that invariably cause some conflict? This is a very fundamental question that requires careful attention to the movement of self. The key is motivation. What is it that motivates the self to perform? You must be able to carefully and attentively observe the obvious and the hidden motivations of that which is seeking the promotion of self interest. As long as you are grounded in the self as the activity of the known you will be in conflict and that conflict will project its self in what is. Total freedom is not a choice it is the reality of the unknown. One does not become free. Freedom is not a result, it is the outcome of negation. When a person breaks through the illusion of the self, then what is...is freedom. The mind that is caught in the known, in the illusion of self, cannot grasp freedom that is not a conceptual ideal or goal. Such a mind is controlled by motivation and acquisition therefore one cannot realize the truth of the absolute moment which is total freedom.

In total freedom there is a type of desolation of consciousness that is beyond the conditioned minds capacity. The freedom that we are alluding to is very difficult to grasp because it defies definition and "knowing". It is in essence a state of existence that knows no bounds, that is without the limitations of thoughts reasoning parameters. Such a mind is beyond the binding elements of a self that is seeking definition in the projected image of that which knows.

In true freedom there is no attachment or identity in or to what is. When there is no psychological attachment there is no conflict. If you can realize in the moment and see that motivation is the result of attachment and that attachment is the means to further motivation then you will have realized a truth that is beyond the capacity of the known. Then all decisions and choices are without a self that is caught in the illusion of attachment and its equation of identity. Then there is not the need for one to be equal to a choice. Equality of choice means that one is defined by and equal to the choices that are made. When one is choicelessly aware there no defined entity, therefore there is no attachment. Freedom is the outcome of choiceless awareness that evolves into the timeless state of the absolute moment. So if you are "thinking" that you a free then you are not. If you dwell on the ideal of freedom then what ever you experience will be the bondage of the self and nothing more. The ideal is the product of a conditioned consciousness, it is the past, the known. Freedom is in the reality of what is, the unknown, that is absent an entity that knows.