Monday, June 7, 2010

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.

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