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.