The Moment and the Unknown

It was the late evening and we were having a discussion about self realization and levels of attainment. It is interesting how the mind works when it comes to seeking out what we desire. We want things, both the material and the psychological, but we seldom look at or realize the truth about why we desire. There is that overwhelming urge to be somebody, to be separated from mass perception. "I am me the definition of something that has occurred in time/space, an event of some significance". "An accomplishment of time". So we go through life seeking the continuity of a defined existence.

C said, "L, I have listened to you talk about the "moment" and how that the truth of it sets you free". "Could we go into it further, I don't feel I am grasping fully what you mean". In the absolute moment, what is the true reality? It is important to be able to look in a manner that is absent the self that knows. If you look with the self in tact, that is through your conditioning, then what you see is the reflection of your own mind. You are incapable of seeing and realizing the actual. For some this is a very difficult thing to grasp. The mind wants definition so that it can create an ideal or mental picture. What is difficult is to realize that in the absolute moment there is no ideal because the self (conditioned consciousness) that creates the ideal is really an illusion. It is the illusion of knowing. Which is the limitation of ones experience and the application of that experience. Your conclusions, opinions and judgements are all a product of this knowing. So what you discern about a given circumstance is actually a projection of the one that is a product of the known, which is the conditioned self. Once you see this in the moment then it is possible to go beyond your own conditioning to a state of emptiness that allows the truth of the moment. That truth does not become a part of self identity, it cannot be made into a defined ideal to be organized and worshipped. It is only in the moment and loses its validity once one attempts to conceptualize it and create an idealized continuity. This then is the essence of the illumination of "no mind".

B asked, "But L, don't we need to "know" in order to move forward in our search for a higher level of consciousness". You are not grasping the significance of what was said. The self that is searching always seeks out of its need for further conditioning. The defined self only wants validation of its illusions, it does not want to find the truth. Because truth is without definition , it is always "unknown" in the sense that one cannot conceptualize it into a division of thought. It is not a part of anything that one can imagine. What one imagines as truth is not truth it is the projection of self. A person seeks out of illusion. There is no "illuminated" seeking. As soon as you create a concept out of what is said you are lost. That concept becomes the known as past tense which one may rationalize and reconcile in an effort to find continuity within what one already believes. So mind builds on ones illusion and its continuity as something to be sought, acquired and idealized. If a person is ever to go beyond the conflict and confusion of a self that knows, one must realize the total freedom of the absolute moment. That which is the outcome of a consciousness that is unconditioned.

B said, "But I am still not sure about what you are saying." "I still feel that there is a state in which you can know, one that is in the spiritual realm". That is because you are continuously referencing what you know and projecting it as the perceived truth of the moment. "Spiritual Realm" is just a catch all for the vagaries of personalized esoteric thought. Which is not any different than any other thought. It is still the result of ones conditioning, what one is conditioned to believe. B replied, "I cannot agree with you". "I must be able to know". Do Not agree or disagree, I am not seeking your agreement. What is said is that you only look without judgement, opinion, and conclusion. If you can do this in the moment then perhaps something will happen that is uninvited, that is not a continuity of what is sought. As long as you think you know then one will never be experiencing the new and never before. Which is the outcome of the unconditioned.