The Mind that Projects

The mind seeks to understand and accumulates knowledge to further its understanding. But what is the source of the one who understands? The one who understands, 'the self', is the dual nature of the content of ones consciousness. There is thought and then there is the one who thinks. This separation is the beginning of the confusion and contradiction of a mind that is seeking understanding through the continuity of what it knows. Perceived continuity creates the illusion of a self that is separate from what is known. What follows is thoughts projection as the self. To consciously know is to project what is known into the moment and to conceptualize ones destiny.

Destiny is to project ones conceptualization of what should be into the future. Most people live for the future in order to escape the moment. Because the mind as the self is seeking a continuance of what it believes, it is always comparing circumstances in order to justify what it believes to be predestination. The moment is the new and never before, it is not a continuance of anything that has gone before. But because we are looking for similarity and security we only see what we want to see. We live in destined conceptuality, not in the truth of the moment. When you are totally free then the moment is lived for the moment not for the future or for the "predictable moment".

Destiny or predestination is the illusion of a mind that is seeking security in knowing. But there is no such thing as security. Life should be lived fully in the insecurity of the moment. Living fully in the moment means that you leave all your prejudices and conceptual models behind. It means that you are open to the possibility of something unfamiliar, something that is spontaneous. This is the essence of an illuminated consciousness. It is understanding that is absent the duality of the one who knows. It is realizing and being aware of the minds propensity to seek definition and to name and label things and so in this manner escape the truth of the absolute moment.

There is no destiny, there is only the minds desire to know and define. We look for meaning in everything that we encounter, but we seldom understand the acute simplicity of just allowing "what is" to be without trying to understand through definition. Definition is the result of a conditioned consciousness, of a mind that is in conflict and contradiction. Simplicity is the highest intelligence for it seeks not to define or label but to understand through freedom, through the unconditioned. If you live the moment fully and completely, to the point where there is no accumulation or residual grasping of a defined activity to be relived, then the mind is free to discover. What it discovers is the true self, that which is beyond definition.