Energy Force?

There is much speculation about a kind of new age mind set that involves a persons "field of energy". Many use buzz words like life force, Chakra, Chi or Ki. What is the motivation behind such activity? Can a person actually "know" something that leads them to be able to put into practice some sort of esoteric healing art? Generally speaking people want some sort of niche in life that sets them apart and gives them a reason to respect themselves and also garners the attention of others. Our search for individuality and definition leads us down the path of illusion and the projection of that illusion.

If we refer to an individuals energy force we separate them/it from the rest of existence, we define and give that energy force a personality, so to speak. We say it is not in balance or alignment and because we have created this illusion around our knowledge, we may think that we are capable of some mysterious esoteric mumbo jumbo that can heal. But the fact is we are just fooling ourselves with the self created illusion of separation in order to justify false understanding. If what you are expounding is about you (and it always is) then the results are actually a way of seeking conformity to what is believed. What is actually sought is validation of ones concepts and beliefs. With validity comes a sense of accomplishment and of the future well being (security) of a persons life.

If you realize that this separation that the mind engages in is the result of seeking an answer to a problem that is self created, then it is possible to realize an important fact about the self. The mind seeks the safety and security of the known, the repetition of what was as the projection of what should be. One is constantly in need. "I am this but I need to be that", I am here but I need to be there". Psychologically it is the constant repetition of a recurring cycle of emotional and dysfunctional distress. It is all self induced by our reaction to the reality of what is. We cannot accept the moment, so we escape into our desires. One creates an entire industry around the desire to psychologically be and have.

So if we see the reality of the problem that is absent our desire to escape then we realize that there is not individual energy that needs to be channeled or corrected. There is only the wholeness of one energy. We are that energy and it is perfect within its self. The mind that is seeking to define, label and organize is the mind that is caught in the confusion and conflict of its own movement as one who "knows". There is never a solution in such activity only the repetition of the need for further exposure to the tenet's of an ideal. When you are one with that energy then you are not seeking or desiring anything, you are the freedom of the moment.

Independent Understanding

If you read a book, listen to a verbal lesson or teaching and you understand and agree or disagree with it, then what is it that you have learned and who or what is the nature of the one who understands or learns something? Can you see and realize that what you understand and agree or disagree with is the minds projection or modified projection of its accumulated knowledge on the subject at hand. You are adding to the established nature of self. It is the acknowledgement and promotion of a continuing defined self. You understand according to what you already understand. It is the limitation of thoughts dual nature. Truly, what you understand is the result of the continuity of what has been.

Now is it possible to understand independent of thoughts proclivities? To see and realize without logical continuity. If you are "thinking", you will have to say no, it is not possible. But if in the absolute moment there is no movement of thought, it is possible to realize something that has no connection to anything imagined or thought of. It cannot be defined or verbalized, for any attempt at it would invalidate the moment of its reality. You cannot capture it. It is not an occurrence in time, but a consciousness of the timeless. The outcome of this consciousness that is without a name or a word/concept is understanding that transcends what is known or can be known. An intelligence of intuit that is without origin. When there is an abandonment of self that is not a part of a programed activity of thought, then the door is opened to something that is disconnected. If it seems to you that I am dancing around a point of vagueness, that is so. Because if you realize something totally new it has to be original, without conception. So it is impossible to explain to you or impart a definitive action, to give you a system or path. You must realize directly, not through a self created and sought after ideal. In a sense you bypass your normal thought processes. Of course most will not see how that this is possible. But if you have passion for the truth of the moment you will come to a place that will exhaust the conditioned mind and allow a silence that is not contrived or sought after. In that moment of silence you will realize an intelligent simplicity that cannot be imagined. It will wipe the mind clean of all that limits and you will see without reference to the illusion of self.

Looking but not Seeing

Looking but not seeing is the result of a mind that is consumed with its programed activity of knowing. To look with a fresh mind means that you are aware that you are programed. The mere fact that you think at all requires some measure of programing. It is important to realize that the programing is not a separate activity of thought, but is in fact part of thought. To realize this is to realize thoughts illusion of duality. When you are aware in the absolute moment, then it is possible for thought to realize its own movement as an illusion of what is programed. One may see that this movement in reality has no validity in the absolute moment. That is, its validity is solely a function of the mind that is caught in its own projected and desired result. It is not true reality. True reality is without the known as thoughts duality of a projected self. In true reality there is no movement. It is understanding that realizes how the mind works and that it exist as an attachment to a defined image. An image that thought creates a duality around.

Seeing that there is a duality of consciousness in the mechanism of thinker and thought, one can through an awareness that is not seeking or accomplishing, realize the non-dual or unconditioned. A person can only have this realization when the mind is quiet, but not the self seeking activity of a "practiced meditation". It is the unassuming transparency of a consciousness that is free of any ideal or image. One should allow the moment to be what it is. The simplicity of thoughts non-interference in the reality of what is. Even though thought may continue its movement, one needs only to observe without the duality of the one who is referencing and comparing. One is not assigning a numerically judgemental significance to thoughts movement. If a person has the passion to realize such a state of existence, then one will eventually see without an origin.

Not a Continuance

Can you realize something in the moment that is not a continuance, something that is totally new and without a point of reference? Is there an attentiveness to the space between two word thoughts that is without relationship or a defined movement? Within that emptiness is a realization that cannot become part of the known. Because the mind is always in a state of conscious or unconscious movement that constantly seeks the known and defined, it is difficult to realize something that is a non-movement. We want to somehow capture it and give it meaning. We want to make it a point of reference, a defined something to be sought. This is in essence why it cannot be taught or learned, because it is beyond mind. All one can do is be aware of the minds movement and realize all the various nuances of thoughts acquisitive and destructive nature. When you see and realize the essence of minds duality and how that it constantly seeks to justify and define, then you will start to realize freedom. But that freedom will not be an activity of a mind that wants to acquire the ideal "freedom". It will be simplicity that is the outcome of the negation of thoughts illusion of knowing.

Do you think that you have learned or had a realization that you can impart to another? Do you want to set yourself up as an authority who can guide and teach? If so then you are the most deluded of all. For as has been said before there is nothing to teach and nothing that can be learned. All one can do on this level is impart ones own confusion and contradiction to another. To explain is to define, and if you are clever enough with words, then you can fool people into thinking that you know something of the unknown. But it cannot be known. What is known is the folly of those that think they are an authority because they have a PhD. or have learned from a "Master". The simplest mind is the most aware in the moment. Out of that awareness is the simplicity of emptiness and realization of the true self. That which is beyond knowing and the known. Put away the idea that you know something or have experienced something that you can help others with. For you are the most likely to suffer the consequences of a mind that is closed and self indulgent. All you do is create opposition and suspicion. To know is to live in self illusion. The illusion of the authority of the self.

Seeking Through Another

I was conversing with a friend, we were discussing the belief in whether or not a person can get help psychologically from another? Can the efforts or another, however "illuminated" or "learned" cause us to realize some measure of understanding about the problems or difficulties that we may have? A person can look at this from different perspectives. We can ask what is the motivation of those that supposedly lead us to "believe" and what is the result of that motivation? We can also look at ones self and ask what is it that I am seeking? What is the motivation behind wanting to "acquire" some sort of relief or knowledge that helps me overcome some perceived problem? The whole dynamic of interaction between the one who knows and the one who seeks to know involves a deep symbiotic relationship of exploitative duality. It is the illusion of giving in order to receive. What is given and what is received is the result of a deep seated psychological aquistiveness that is inherent in a conditioned consciousness. You cannot see or realize the truth of this until you are totally free. As long as you are the prisoner of belief or non-belief (which is just another form of belief) because all ideals contain the seed of its opposite, then you cannot truly experience the absolute moment which is freedom that is absent the one who knows. That is, the one who is seeking or seeking by offering a solution. Because the one who answers the question or the problem and the one who ask the question or creates the problem are one in the same. When you seek a solution you have created the problem. The solution is part of the problem, the solution contains the problem. One could say the solution is the problem and the problem is the solution.

You are maybe saying to yourself, "this does not make any sense". Well you would be right, it does not make any sense, and that is the realized truth of it. Because the essence of the mind that is seeking and finding is one of confusion and contradiction. The only thing that you can truly learn from another is that they are the same as you, they do not have any answers to your psychological problems. The only thing that can happen is that you become dependent on their illusion and make it part of your own illusion. So you both go happily down the street thinking that you have given in order to acquire and acquired in order to have something to give. How utterly and completely deluded you both are.

So realizing that to follow another is the folly of a mind that desires to be what it perceives that it is not. One is trapped so one seeks further entrapment in order to chase the illusion of a freedom that can be acquired through the known or knowing. It is the circle of continuous self perpetuated illusion. When you are in self illusion, one relies on the crutch of that which supports and conforms to ones already established beliefs. But belief of any kind is the source of illusion and self deception. As long as you "believe" you are trapped by the known. Belief and true freedom cannot exist in the same room together. You are either the "belief" of what was or you are the total "freedom" of the moment. You cannot realize the truth of anything from another, no matter how educated or "enlightened" they may be, you can only realize there confusion and contradiction and make it part of your own. Truth is in freedom, that is absent the self created.

The Emptiness of One

The mind that is at peace does not seek or desire. To realize that you are wholly complete within "what is", is the essence of a peacefulness that is without measure or comparison. Nothing needs to be added to "what is". It does not need your schemes or your plans for improvement, for it is beyond the mind that seeks to know. "What is", is the eternal, the moment which is without beginning or end. The moment of total reality that harbors the transcendent intelligence of an unconditioned consciousness. It is an intelligence that is beyond the karmic synthesis of all the Sages and all the Buddhas through all that is bound by time/space. If it is not now then it is the illusion of a mind that is caught in the movement of time/space. It is the illusion of "what was" projected as "what will be". The circle of thoughts madness in seeking and worshiping its own creation. A creation that is the image of the minds dual nature, the self that knows and seeks to know. This is the ultimate realization, the final solution...all that you do, say or think comes to naught for it is the product of a mind and consciousness that is bound by the dual nature of self knowledge. The truth is in the emptiness of the absolute moment. It is absolute when the self that knows ceases to exist as a thought/entity that moves through time/space.

If a person is awakened to the realization of a consciousness that is without the conditioning of a self defined center of accumulated knowledge, then one "is" the freedom of the moment. Only in the freedom of the moment does one realize beyond opinion and conclusion. What is realized is the reflection of self in all that "is". It is the mirrored consciousness of total understanding and acceptance of what is. Within this state of existence is life that is not a movement through time/space but a synthesis of all that is known as an emptiness in an emptiness.

A Disturbance in the Psyche

There is a disturbance in the psyche that is the outcome of a mind that is aware in the absolute moment. When a person realizes the true self, then one is aware of the conflict that is the norm of thoughts projection. To be aware is to disturb the status-quo. It is the action of realization that sees the truth of the moment and the conflict and contradiction of a life lived in the duality of a conditioned consciousness. It is to see a consciousness that is caught in the repetition of programed emotions and feelings of frustration, envy, inadequacy, pride and all the rest of it. So how does such a disturbance come about? Does one meditate on the "subject"? Is there some method that allows one to see or realize?

What do we mean by a disturbance? When you are aware in the moment, without that awareness being the result of the self that is seeking something, then there is a quality to the conscious mind that allows the non-dual to displace. What is displaced is the mind that is consciously measuring, comparing and concluding. Ones consciousness is free of its conditioned selfhood. When there is no me or I then there is the possibility of an intelligence that transcends individuality and the logic of a self that is seeking its projected reality in what is. It is as if one sees for the first time without the interference of thought and its knowledge or knowing. It is seeing the raw unadulterated fact of the absolute moment and realizing the immensity of an unknown that is unrelated and without measure. So it is a disturbance that is the impetuous for the absence of defined causation. It is the outcome but not the result of freedom that has no origin or relationship to the ideal of cause and effect. "Buddhist" normally think in terms of a cause and effect relationship, which is the cornerstone for a belief in reincarnation. But if you read and understand Buddha carefully and attentively with a consciousness that is free of the minds projection, then you will realize that their can be no belief or non-belief, only the truth of the moment. There is in reality nothing to be reincarnated. Only a mind that lives in the illusion of a separate selfhood can image belief. Belief that is the projection of the desired or undesired.

Disturbance is the beginning of realization and seeing in the moment, that which is an intelligence not born out of knowledge, but the outcome of the intuit of the unknown. It is well if the mind is disturbed about its own content for that is the beginning of understanding that is not a continuity of what has been. Disturbance brings about the new and never before, its realization and its truth.