The Uninvited

In order for there to be a true awakening a person must first realize the full extent of their conditioning. So many people think that they are on a path that leads to illumination. They do not realize that all paths are fraught with illusion. Anything that promotes an ideology of accomplishment with degrees of "arrival" are only the projection of ones own mind. Then there are those that seek out the "supernatural" and believe they have gifts that are beyond the masses. Because we are so much in fear we seek some sort of order in the chaos that is ones daily life. Yes, if you are seeking anything you are in confusion, you want to escape to another dimension of the mind, one in which you can create order. We want life to be predictable, we want to make the unknown the known. So one will pray, meditate or seek out a psychic, shaman or holy man to find that "knowing" that helps us escape the truth of the moment.

But what happens if you stay with the moment, no matter the circumstance? To face the reality without ones chosen crutch of escape. To be totally aware of the movement of thought, to see how the mind creates all these fantasies so that one can cope through ones neurosis of choice, ones narcotic. When you do this (escape) you are engendering fear. You are creating a prison out of the illusion of "knowing". So if one is totally aware of the trap of ones conditioning then something new is possible. A person must be aware so that you can see through the fog of your own mind. It does not come as a result of "self" effort. It is uninvited, there has to be vulnerability that strips away all belief in thoughts accumulations. It is as if you are standing in the moment stripped of all the layers of self, of all that has been accumulated through out ones life. You are now without a defined self. It is freedom that is beyond "knowing". In that moment of freedom and total vulnerability something is realized that is not part of the known and cannot be known. It is a release and rebirth that is beyond the named and the defined. It is the realization of the true self, the unconditioned. But as mere words it cannot be conceived of. For to seek it out as an accomplishment of the self is to add to ones confusion and conflict. One must realize first a total release that is freedom from the known and the activity of knowing.