The Question

Some have asked, "What is the nature of an illuminated consciousness"? If I provide you with an answer that gives you some comfort and provides intellectual agreement, then what is the nature of that answer? Is it not the result of a mind that is caught in the illusion of the named and identified? Then what I reveal to you is the content of my own mind, a mind that may be in as much conflict and confusion as your own. When you ask a question that is the result of the minds content of inner conflict and confusion then it follows that whatever the answer, it supports either negatively or positively, that content. So if you realize your own true nature, the nature of the self which ask the question, then the answer is in the question.

The named and the defined is the static result of a mind that is looking for conformity and continuity. It is a trick of the mind to believe that a question seeks to find an answer to the unknown. Mind can only understand in terms of its content. Thought as the self can not fathom the unknown and make it a part of one's accumulated image. What satiates the desire to know is a limited understanding that is part of ones conditioned consciousness. It is in reality a continuation of ones own knowing. The truth can only be realized through negation of the known, which creates capacity for that which is beyond the self. The self that is one's sense of knowing. Ideological thinking is always centered around the premise that the self can know anything if given the facts. But that is its very limitation. The facts are the result of the ideological, so they are only a continuation of what has been. Because the mind is caught in a never ending circle of deductive and inductive reasoning, all knowing is dependent on the continuity of ones conditioning. The true reality of self, the actual, is in the moment when there is an absence of the continuity of knowing. The mind as a conceptual entity ceases the activity of trying to project itself into the moment.

Thought as the self is ever seeking to know. But it will only accept what contributes to the continuation of what has been. It moves away from the reality of what is in favor of the image of what should be as defined by its own self enclosing beliefs. The defined self cannot realize the true nature of that which is illuminated because "it is" when the self it not. An illuminated consciousness is without the conditioning of the past, which is to say it cannot be "known".