The Changeless Change

Change it seems has this dichotomous nature to it that defines and attempts to undefine in the same moment. There is the person that one was and the person that one will be. How can one realize a change that is not a definition of what has been as the projection of what will be? The mind, as the movement of thought, cannot change the basic elements of its existence as accumulated knowledge. It can only create a reorganization of its content, it cannot produce what has never been. The nature of thought is to define, that is its primary purpose. Through the defined we formulate and project. Is their change that is not a product or result of what has been? If a conscious effort is made to change then that change is always the result of a conclusion about the self. When there is conclusion there is the conflict of opposition. The opposing view of what is and what should be. To "seek" difference is the repetition of a mind that is caught in a never ending struggle to escape from the reality of the moment. To realize that the activity of escape is to engage the entrapment of a conditioned consciousness is to see the subtlety of ones own conditioning. So the change that you realize is largely a modification of what has gone on before. In truth one may be just adding further defining elements to ones established conditioning.

The new and never before is the outcome of negation. One has to empty out the closet if one is to realize something that is not a result of what is in the closet. This does not mean that you forget everything that you have ever been exposed to, for to attempt that is to live in denial. Negation is not an activity of the self that is trying to escape, it is putting aside the self that knows so that a different level of consciousness is realized. In that level of consciousness one has new understanding that is not a result of the old, or that which has been. That understanding which is moment to moment is the change that cannot be changed. Because it is ever the new and never before. It has no connection to the past. Ones whole life can be transformed, but that transformation is not a recognizable permanency. It is a continuous inner realization of the true self which is manifested externally. But it is not sought as the external path of a religion, philosophy or any other new age accumulated self knowing. Total freedom is the door to that which is the undefined and changeless.