Positional Thought

Mind cannot help but create mischief and pain, because we are always thinking from a position. That position is basically the opinions and conclusions that we have formulated as a result of our conditioned mind set which by its very nature is comparative. We look at people and circumstances and we make judgements about them based on our individual programing. But we are not really aware of the process and how we arrived at those opinions and judgements. All we know is that there is an absence of the conformity that we seek. So we are constantly in this self created conflict that we mistakenly attribute to the "other". We have lost all vulnerability and for this reason we are suspicious of anyone or anything that does not conform. Without vulnerability there is no love or understanding. There is only fear. Fear is always the result of positional thinking and positional thinking is the result of fear. They feed on one another in a vicious circle of prejudice and violence.

What if it were possible to realize, understand and transcend the self that is this bundle of conflicting opinions and judgements. To approach all people and circumstances with an emptiness that allows the moment. Regardless of your culture, religion or politics, to stand before existence as a being that has moved beyond the immaturity of opinion, conclusion and judgement. To realize a degree of acceptance that transcends the violence of positional thought. You may say how is this possible? You may say a person must be able to differentiate, to accept and reject in order to survive. But does your survival actually rely on differentiation or is that the reason we a killing each other, not only physically but psychologically. So one has to be acutely aware. It is a state of meditation that negates all ones conditioned thinking. It is allowing the moment to be selfless, without a state of knowing and the projection of what you think you know.

When you understand from a position you are lost. You will engage that position to the nth degree, to the destruction of others and to your self. When there is an absence of position then there is no opposition, now something else is possible. Ones understanding undergoes a transformation. Understanding that is the outcome of compassion and love. But one must realize that such compassion is not the result of an idealistic conversion to "do-gooder" status. One does not "become" what one is not in order to accumulate "piety", which is actually a position. Action in the moment is selfless, without acknowledgement...one is anonymous. But not practiced anonymity.

The problem is the mind is always seeking to identify its self with some activity that gives it a definition. So it is very difficult to live in a world that is concerned with the self, because one is surrounded with all that contributes to the idealistic illusion of self. A person is constantly hammered with the idea that you need to belong to some organization with a belief, creed or something that allows them to understand what you are about...So that there can be your "position" their "position". People are surprised to learn that this writer has no beliefs and does not think from a position. They want to be able to pigeon hole you so that they can feel secure in their own minds that they "know" and you do not "know". But it is difficult to be in conflict with someone who is an "emptiness".