The Simplicity of Just Living

It is important to realize understanding that allows you to look at circumstances from an entirely new perspective. It is a perspective in which the self that is constantly seeking to become is absent. The mind is always seeking the validity of its perception of what was in the moment, so it cannot see the truth of what is. The mind dwells in the known and what it knows always involves projection into what is. One cannot escape the fact of the self, with its peculiarities and personality, but a person can realize without it being a dominant force that blinds one to the truth. Anytime you think from a position that is a movement through time, then the result is centered in the illusion of knowing.

We were walking through the park, it was a beautiful evening. Spring flowers were just peeking through the grass and the birds were chirping wildly, flying around in circles looking for a place to nest. D said, "L, its interesting, you are so calm, a quiet intelligence that is somewhat mysterious". "At the same time you have this boyish charm that questions, is curious and full of humor". "How is it that you seem so free and content with the obvious simplicity of just living"? It is not a simple thing to just enjoy life. Because we a so consumed with getting and having, we miss the truly important things in existence. For me the key is acceptance, realizing the truth of the self and being able to accept the reality of who I am in the moment. Through acceptance one is able to change. Unfortunately most of us are in denial. That denial takes the form of illusion, the self created image of who one is, the conceptual, not the actual. Firstly a person has to be able to see the truth of the moment and you cannot do this unless you are choicelessly and timelessly aware. The mind is in a constant state of measuring and comparing. A person misses the moment because one is always seeking to be validated by the actions of another person or circumstance. The seeking of that validation is what consumes us. We want either approval or disapproval, so that we can pigeon hole the moment into our own petty definitions of what it is that we believe. In essence a person defines the moment based on the past, our archaic belief in some conceptual deity, that is in reality, the self that knows.

D said, "Its interpretation isn't it"? "We understand according to our own experience". Yes that is so, understanding that is the result of conditioning, both the negative and the positive. "So how do we arrive at a realization of this conditioning that would prompt one to change"? Its not so much an arrival because then one gets caught up in accomplishment and all that goes with the self that is seeking. The mind can only seek and find its content in the form of the modified and reconciled. To realize the new and never before, which is "the change", one cannot be seeking, one can only be aware. The quality of that awareness is dependent on the dissipation of the one who "knows". That is when you realize in the moment that the one who knows and what he knows are one in the same. They are not separate, but are representational of a mind that is in the conflict of duality. Seeing this in the moment is the beginning of an intelligence that penetrates the illusion of a conditioned mind set.

D sat down on a rock staring down at the grass. There was a moment of complete silence, thought had ceased its inquiry. We just sat there enjoying the peace of a mind that had no movement. Time had ceased to be a concept and space was without dimension. We were totally free. The freedom of the absolute moment had enveloped us, we were without form or function.