Self Absorbed Intelligence (Statutory Thought)

I was discussing the notion of perception with a friend last evening. The mind perceives according to what it has accumulated. The minds content or experience determines how we perceive and to what extent that perception validates what we believe we know. Statutory thinking revolves around the minds belief in what it knows. It is the activity of a mind that is consumed with its own self importance which may be validated by rule of law. Rule of law is the result of organizational tyranny, which disregards the moment and seeks only to opine and judge. The mind is seeking factual relevance in what it perceives as reality, but that reality is always inconclusive. This is so because the thought process is continually referencing a memory that is selective and obsessed with its own defined self image. So self absorbed intelligence is very superficial and is the result of the minds inability to go beyond its own narrow construct. What you believe you know is in need of constant revision because the nature of thought and thinking is always incomplete. The problem is that the mind is caught in a stasis of factual irrelevance. We try to understand the moment through the past, which leads us to believe in absolutes of right and wrong. This whole process is the authority of the self which is projecting belief. Conflict is the result of our need to revise belief as we observe the contradiction of the moment. Revisionism is a form of escape. It allows us to continue to believe in something even though it contradicts the truth of the moment.

To see the inadequacy of thought in the moment is to come upon and an intelligence that allows one to realize beyond the known. Then it is possible to realize a perception that negates the limitations of a mind that is self absorbed. A mind that is limited by its own prejudicial knowing lives in contradiction, confusion, and conflict. Intellect is a product of the known, of statutory thought. Such a mind seeks out absolutes, the result of this seeking is the authority of the known or the self that knows. Authority is always the result of statutory thought. It is the parent of all conflict and violence.

So how does a person have a clear perception of the reality of the moment? If there is an awareness of thoughts movement as the self that is under the influence of the known and knowing, then it is possible to negate its relevance. It is a negation of the content of a mind that is seeking validation of self in what is. It is the minds process of projecting belief and conclusion. Belief and conclusion which is the result of self image or ego. Awareness creates an atmosphere that is conducive to an understanding of the moment that is independent of the known. Understanding that is the outcome of choiceless awareness. An awareness that is absent comparison, judgement and conclusion. One is aware, with an emptiness that allows the newness of the moment to unfold and reveal truth that is absent the self that is thoughts habitual projection of what was (memory). In a sense it is the realization and then a letting go of a persons conditioned responses to the perception of similarity in what is. The mind is repetitious in this regard because it is always seeking what was in what is. The perception of sameness or similarity in each preceding moment is the illusion of a mind that is trapped in a conditioned consciousness. A consciousness that cannot escape the repetition of its own self induced conflict. To be aware of this dynamic as ones conditioned reality is to discover something totally new from moment to moment. A timelessness in which past and future are without relevancy. The realization of the unconditioned which sets one free. A consciousness that is unconditioned exist only in the absolute moment, it has no relationship to what has been or what will be. It is absolute reality. The outcome of which is an intelligence that transcends statutory thought.