Beyond the LImitations of Thought

When thought has realized its own limitations, then it is possible to understand the nature of a consciousness that is the constant moment to moment rebirth of the reality of what is. It is the intelligence of seeing that is absent thoughts manipulations and projections. What is seen is the purity of the moment which reveals the origin of the minds true motivations and the subtle way in which thought is a captive of its conditioning. Most of us live in the acquisitive past tense. We are constantly seeking to acquire something either physically or psychologically that conforms to what we believe or "know". It is part of our efforts to further define the self. Our motivations are "always" for the benefit of the continuity of the ego/self. It is the recurring activity of a self that is seeking the repetition of an established image of what has been . Ones deep identity of knowing, the projection of what is known as ones illusion of knowing. This is a very difficult thing, to penetrate ones own psyche. To realize in the absolute moment the totality of ones being as the illusion of the self created fear of not being. But these words are not the reality of that realization. One cannot fathom the intensity and passion it takes to see the truth of what is. Neither can one know the essence of the nature of that realization in terms of the known. Words only allude to the possibility. Negation, putting aside your systems of manipulation and mind games is the beginning of the possibility of something not imagined. Setting yourself free, that is the most difficult first step, for even when you "think" that you are free you are not. The external is just the beginning, it is the internal that is the most difficult. Most are satisfied with superficial external freedom, which is really not freedom at all. It is just aligning yourself with the ideal of freedom not the reality of it. Following and believing is the substitution that the mind sees as freedom. Most of us are trapped in the illusion of freedom and not the reality. It is difficult to break away because there is comfort in knowing...the security of the known. We follow an icon such as Buddha, Christ, Mohamed or Xyz because we are psychologically lazy and live in a fog of meaningless rituals and conforming archaic tribalism. We want to conform, to belong to some "higher knowledge", some force, that we believe is greater than the self. As such we become that greater force through the proxy of definition and identification. We live in the illusion of knowing, not in the reality of what is.

How is it possible for the mind to see and realize beyond the illusion of a self that knows? Can one see without the conforming activity of a mind that is seeking? It is difficult and not without first experiencing the reality of the loss of ones identity and ones psychological crutch of belief and knowing. In the beginning it is almost as though one has lost everything and that a person has fallen into a great crevasse. To face the daunting reality of true emptiness and aloneness. To stay with it and live the moment eternally is to see and realize the true self, the illumination of the unconditioned.