The Reality of Negation

Friends have asked me to further explain negation and the process of negating that I sometimes allude to. Negation or the negative is traditionally understood in terms of an undesired result, effect or as an avoidance of something distasteful. A person must initially realize that in the defined traditional sense both negation and affirmation are one in the same as an ideal of thought. One defines the other. The mind exist "normally" within defined limits of understanding. When you think from a defined position, agenda, belief or the like then you think within the ideal of position and opposition. You are always seeking to negate through the affirmation of what it is that you know or believe. The negation that one refers to is of a different nature. It is the "negation" of a mind that has understanding. It is not an activity of the mind that is seeking to avoid. There is no conclusion or belief in negation. It is not a product of thoughts knowing. Negation is viewed more as a vehicle (in the Buddhist sense) rather than an activity of the mind that is judging.

It is negation that is the outcome of understanding the self and its propensity to accumulate and define an experience. It is the realization that self is no more than the authority of the known as what has been and therefore the projection or modified projection of what will be. As long as the mind is trapped by the circumstances of the past as a defined ideal, one cannot realize the truth of the moment. Negation allows the moment as it is without the authority of the self that knows. Then a person will realize the true self in that moment and have understanding that transcends knowing. The state of not knowing brings about a peaceful state of existence in which there is the possibility of something totally new that cannot be imagined. This is not "new age" or "Buddhist" gibberish, it is simple seeing in the moment that is absent all ones baggage. The vehicle of negation is not a process or a method of accomplishment, it is the simplicity of emptiness and a quiet mind. When you are not seeking an end to a means then the mind is free and has the capacity to see beyond its traditional nature. One is acutely aware of thoughts movement as a duality in the illusion of time/space. That simple awareness is the beginning of an intelligence that sees into the true nature of the human condition and its conditioning. It is the flowering of the unconditioned.