Seeing Through the Illusion of Self

To "realize" is to find that you are totally alone. That aloneness is the outcome of a person's departure from the things that define, both the psychological and the material. To feel yourself all one (alone) in the midst of the chaos that is the conditioned existence of the known, is to realize an empathy for all who suffer in delusion. Once a person has realized the unconditioned consciousness of an immensity that cannot be defined or named, then one cannot but live a life of peace and love. If one has truly realized then a persons life is not there own. Their is no self that knows, that is seeking or wanting to project. It is the quiet and still presence of an entity that exist not for its own sake or for the emulation of imagined sainthood, but for the anonymous simplicity of just being. To most people this would seem to be the "stuff" of boredom and everything that lacks imagination and creativity. But that is because a person lives only in the conceptuality of mind that is always seeking outside its self. True creativity is the function of a mind that is free of all the repetitious images of what it means to become something or somebody. Such a mind does not copy or emulate. One is free of all the images of illusion, the ideals of success, whether psychological or material. Acceptance of the moment is the only truth, for within the absolute moment lies the essence of all that has ever been or ever will be. In that moment there is no time, no movement, no thought only the realization of an absence that is the immensity of the unknown, the reality of the true self.

Here is the realization, that you cannot know anything. What is known is the conceptual illusion of a self that is seeking its own image in what is. Thought is trying to establish a permanency within the impermanent illusion of life as the movement of time. This is thoughts conundrum, I am this or that, yet at the same time I may not be this or that in the future; so I am forever becoming, even after death in some beliefs. The belief that there is an end to, so I must be reborn. This is the illusion of a self that thinks it knows. It is the base fear, the fear of not being in some form. To realize death without dying physically is the illumination of the absolute moment. It is freedom from the self, the entity that knows. When the self dissipates, then their is only the beauty of the moment. Then their is space for an intelligence that transcends the known.

The mind is normally consumed with the everyday problems of a self that is forever seeking to accomplish and maintain. But all it actually does is repeat its self induced misery. To go beyond the self created ideals of individualism and defined ignorance is to discover the action of selflessness. Selflessness, not as an ideal or a way to achieve some sort of warped piety, but the anonymous allowing of the moment that is manifested as an aura of peace and love. Realize the depth of your own self motivation. Why do you go to church, temple or mosque? Is it to find god or is it actually to satisfy your own selfishness. To "own" god, to be the chosen or to be or know something that separates and makes you "special". Do you dare find out and face the truth of what you actually are? To realize that what you actually do is worship the projected image of self. Can you be kind to a stranger, offer a hand without desiring the psychological effects of a being a "do-gooder". If what you do is about you, then you are forever lost in the illusion of the known. You are the other, they are a reflection of your greed, anger, and violence. Realize the truth of this and you and your perception of others will be changed forever.