Peace in the Moment

We were walking through the streets of a quaint and beautiful coastal town. It was a street fair filled with people out for a Sunday of fun and entertainment. The streets were lined with vendors, selling all sorts of gadgets and potions. It is interesting how the mind seeks out that which will give it a sense of well being. We are conflicted physically and psychologically so we seek remedies outside the self. We are exposed to objects, ideas, formulas and potions that are expounded by those that are seeking money, power, and influence. In turn we are also required to hawk our own wares and beliefs. We want to have meaning in life, to acquire and to find comfort and peace. But the mind that is caught in the circle of acquiring and projecting can never realize peace that is not a result. Peace is a not a product to be obtained through an act of will or a metaphysical discipline. Peace is always there, but we block it with our selfishness and greed. To negate is to be iconoclastic in ones approach to the understanding of the moment. It is to allow the raw reality of the moment without making it a conscious effort of will, which is the activity of a mind that is trapped by belief as the promotion of a self that thinks it knows.

An iconoclast is selfless, one who destroys the illusion of a life lived in the confusion and contradiction of a self centered existence. Self centered means living an existence that is centered around ones conditioned thought process. Thought processes that are the result of a persons exposure to life experiences that become ones source of identification. Identification with ideals whether spiritual, political, or psychological. These ideals define a person through the vehicle of belief and non-belief.

When a person becomes attached psychologically to a belief then they look and see only through that belief or ideal. A person tries to live the fantasy of a belief which they project into the moment. The moment has no belief, it is our illusion that gives the belief substance. You can believe in all sorts of religious and new age remedy's for what ails you, but it is only a trick of the mind that is seeking to escape the moment. There is never satisfaction with what is provided by a belief. The mind is seeking to expand that belief in hope of finding further relief from physical and/or psychological pain and conflict. It never crosses our mind that the remedies are actually part of the origin of all pain and conflict. If we did realize fully and completely the origin and depth of our illusion then we would negate instantly all that is the self that thinks it knows.

The outcome of negation is freedom. Not freedom from some ideal or belief, but freedom that is the realization of the very mechanism that creates illusion. Seeing into the depths of a mind that lives in a fog of uncertainty and fear. If you can realize your own fear in the moment and see that wholeness lies not in belief or non-belief but in acceptance and love that is the reality of the truth of the absolute moment.