Avoiding What Is

We were having a discussion about the differences in human nature and how that individuals seem to avoid one another when there are insurmountable differences in points of view and opinion. S looked my way and said, "L, you have often spoke of acceptance of others regardless of what they believe, but even you must admit that some people are "over the top" when it comes to religion and politics". The reply, it depends on ones perception. If you are looking from a position, that is you see through your particular mind set, then your opinions and judgements will reflect that position. S said, "I know that you stay the "middle path", but you must want to avoid extremes in others that seem outlandish". My reply, actually it is important not to avoid, for only then can you truly understand your own psychosis of opinion. The "middle path" does not mean that you avoid the extremes of the left or the right, it means that there are in fact no extremes and there is neither the left nor the right. The self that is generating a definition of left and right is the conditioning of a mind that dwells in the illusion of the known. You cannot realize understanding that transcends opinion, conclusion and judgement until you are aware of the origin of extremism that is the result of ones own conditioned consciousness. When you are aware choicelessly and see in the moment the workings of your own mind as it compares and concludes then it is possible to transcend opinion and arrive at a level of consciousness that accepts what is and understands totally without judging. Without creating a wall of division, rejection and suspicion. So there is actually no middle path, we just use the words middle path so that one may start to realize something that is not a product of ones conditioning. S said half jokingly, "But L, you must want to avoid some individuals that are not conducive to ones mental health." We all laughed at his cloaked innuendo. I said, again do not avoid, you are an emptiness that cannot be touched. I know it seems humorous not to avoid, but you will see that it is possible to be disarming without saying a word. It is possible to create love and understanding where there is none. It will come to you if you are selflessly aware in the moment, what comes out of you is the change in yourself that becomes the change in the other. It is the change of reflection which is the acceptance and understanding of what is. If one is not escaping into the projections of self then one can realize the true reality of the moment. A reality that is not the result of or a part of ones conditioning. If your life is a repetition of "what has been" as a belief, then you are caught in the past tense which then becomes a projection of the defined and thus conflicted. The mind must be free to discover the truth of the moment which is the new and never before.

S scratched his head and said "I see the truth in what you say but tell me what you mean by the new and never before"? Each moment in which the mind is aware of the movement of self as the projection of what was, lays the groundwork for the realization of a consciousness that is not a product of the self that knows. It is a consciousness that is absent any conditioning. It is a pure timeless awareness that transcends the mind that references in order to understand. Through this awareness each moment is the eternal, the realization of a reality that is not a continuity of each preceding moment. When you live in the illusion of a separate self that knows it is not possible to fathom such a reality. One has to step through the door that integrates, that allows one to realize a oneness, which is actually the realization of the truth of what is. If you see that each moment has physically and psychologically never happened before as a formulation of thought, then you may have a glimpse of something beyond the self that knows.