Choice

What is the state of a mind that decides, that chooses? When a person is faced with a choice, consciously, what is the psychological mechanism that creates the dualistic nature of choice and why does choice matter? If you look at it as one who is removed from the emotional and intellectual aspects of choice then it may be possible to have a very important realization about the self. If we want to find out the truth we have to look directly, not through our scientific, ideological or spiritual conditioning, but without the self that is calculating out of its preconception. All knowledge is a result of conditioned preconception, unless you can see the truth of this then it will be difficult for you to self realize in the moment.

A person must realize and recognize the difference between choice that is a result of the known and the simplicity of a consciousness that is moving with the natural flow of circumstances. A mind that is free of attachment is a mind that is not projecting the conflict of the past. Each moment presents its self free of the previous moment. It is a breaking free of the minds requirement for conformity to ideological opinion and conclusion. The continuity of thought as the past is the prison of a mind that lives in the illusion of what was. Awareness that is choiceless does not dwell in the duality of a mind that is seeking the self defining elements of choice. What ever the circumstance choice has no validity as that which provides psychological definition. While one makes choice's out of necessity, that choice does not imply a linked continuity to ones conditioned consciousness. Choiceless means without attachment. Choices are without significance to a consciousness that is unconditioned. Choices are neither right nor wrong, good nor bad, they are of the past therefore they are not sought as a validation of the moment. The self that is seeking truth through the validation of choices made in the past will only find the conflict and confusion of a mind that is trapped in the illusion of the known. Realize the freedom of the moment which is without the self that is choosing.

Once the mind has taken a course of action then it becomes the past tense, it has already occurred. Action is only in the moment, to dwell on the past is the activity of a mind that becomes a prisoner of the self absorbed, a mind that is attached. One who is attached is escaping the truth of the moment. It is the intelligence of a person who can realize beyond the projection of a defined self.