Creating Fear

We were having a discussion about the psychological implications of the minds need for attachment to an ideal. One person asked, "How is it possible to realize something life changing if you are without a guide or a direction in which to proceed?" This is the problem to realize without seeking to realize. The mind always looks through its conditioning. It is not possible to have an unconditioned thought. It is only possible to realize the minds movement as such and in the moment transcend its effects. It is an awareness that realizes thoughts movement as a fear based motivational process. Because fear is so subtle and interwoven in our thought process we do not realize just how much we are controlled by it. In point of fact the mind creates fear as a primary link to perceived reality. It is difficult to see this clearly. This is because the mind is constantly interpreting, concluding and reacting as a result of the duality of a self that knows. To see that the known is the result of fear is an insight that escapes many.

Is it possible to act without fear, to transcend fear? Since the mind can only "know" fear as it relates to a conceptual event that may happen, it cannot see that in the absolute moment their is in fact only the unknown, which is totally without fear. Fear is the "possibility" of something imagined, not the reality of it. Fear is essentially thoughts movement from past to future in the form of an anticipated and projected event that one has deemed undesirable. Their is no fear except that one creates it as a projection of the self that "knows". Most people cannot imagine a life without fear because they are caught in the illusion of self. A self that is deterministic. A self that wants to control and subject its self to minds desire for definition, identification, acquisition and attachment.

Your life will change, it will transform, when you have realized the true self, as understanding that is grounded in the truth of the absolute moment. Understanding that comes from an awareness that is both choiceless and timeless. Awareness that is without the self that is constantly comparing and measuring. A self that is obsessed with result. The seeking of a result is a fear based reaction to ones desire to live in the known. To live in the unknown is to live without fear.

Point of No Return

For a person to realize the true self their is a critical point in which the psyche either understands its inadequacy or becomes attached to the known and the process of knowing. It is a point of no return. One either has total realization of ones illusion and the cycles that one goes through to reach a state of emptiness or you are lost to a mind that cannot quite see the reality and depth of the self created. This is the absurdity of belief; that a person can fathom anything through the artificiality of conceptualism and its accompanying systemic of organizing and ritualizing what is believed. How can one ever hope to be free if you are constantly looking for, seeking through the conditioned mind. Do you realize how sick your mind is ? Is it possible to see that very nearly all thought is essentially fear based? Can you look with depth and understanding that realizes in the moment, thoughts movement through fear? You are, in the reality of the absolute moment, "nothingness", that has a brief moment of consciousness. A consciousness of conditioned thought that expands the self created illusion of time/space as a defined "something" that "knows". The illusion of self can only "know" illusion, which is its content. It cannot go beyond its self defined limitations.

Is their an "expanding consciousness"? Expanding implies that their is some activity that we may engage in that promotes a causation. A person can take mind altering drugs or hypnotize oneself with the "spiritual promotions" of others who think they "know". But whatever the mind engages in as a matter of accomplishment always ends in the repetition of what has been. Ones conditioned consciousness can never go beyond itself. It remains within the limitations of its accumulated content. Is their a level of consciousness that goes beyond the conditioned? Their is a consciousness that is not part of the activity of a mind that is seeking. It is quite, still, but not part of a defined state of being. It is dynamically in the absolute moment and comes to you uninvited and departs when a persons mind moves into the conceptual. One cannot stay in the absolute moment as a matter of "practice" or through the machinations of a ritualized system. A person can realize the illumination of the absolute moment only by way of negation and through the dissipation of a self that thinks it "knows". Once a person has realized this as an "original" experiencing in the absolute moment then they are changed forever and their is no going back to what was. This person has said many times that true illumination must be original, not the projections of what one has read in a book or the practice of any teaching or systematic approach or even through ritualized meditation. It comes uninvited through the undefined total freedom of the absolute moment.

It Cannot be "Learned"

Any organized effort toward spirituality or of trying to accumulate "spirit consciousness" is illusion. It is the illusion of the known and the activity of knowing. One must see the futility in being "taught" spirituality. Defined and documented understanding is conceptual in nature. It is never the truth and reality of the moment. What you "know" as a supposed higher consciousness is the projection of a concept as the memory of the learned. What you learn in a classroom, church, ashram, or temple only adds to your conditioning. Transformation is the outcome of freedom that negates "knowing" and the "known". The original is born of emptiness, that which has no connection to and is not a continuity of the past. If each moment is the new and never before then the understanding of that moment must be without the preconception of a defined consciousness. However much we dress it up in esoteric jargon it is still the ignorance of a projected self that is defined by its accumulations.

Accumulations become the limitation of a conditioned mind. It is a mind that is attached to its content. The outcome of all this is ones position. Because one has a position and attempts to live it there is opposition. So without realizing it a person creates the disharmony of duality. What you accumulate and believe in always creates division and conflict while trying to realize its opposite. The mind it seems is never at peace because it is constantly trying to reconcile all of its accumulated knowledge. The self wants to formulate an ideal of understanding that becomes the projection of its divided interest. The conditioned mind is one of confusion and conflict because it is constantly trying to make sense of its desire for conformity. Conformity which is the outcome of its idealized convictions.

All can realize the truth of the moment. The key of course being freedom. But not "idealized" freedom which is just another conformity. But seeing in the moment the movement of the minds confusion and how that as it takes in what is and attempts to reconcile it with beliefs. Reconciliation is escape from the moment (what is) into ones beliefs. It is to project the defined image of self, which is the past (what was) into the moment. One perceives truth not out of desire, but out of the emptiness of a transcended consciousness. This perception requires an awareness that goes beyond the meditation of a mind that is seeking a result. It is a stillness within that is spontaneous, the outcome of the dissipation of all fear and self "knowing". Now such a mind can receive the uninvited.