Belief and Attachment

We were in a discussion about the minds tendency to seek validation for its beliefs. The mind that is caught in attachment to a belief be it religious, spiritual, political or social always seeks the validation of that attachment. When you think from a position or agenda then the mind creates validated scenarios that seem factual and lead one to further believe in that position. But the illuminated mind does not reason from a position. Such a mind looks at the truth of the moment which is without either belief or non-belief. It is important for a person to question all challenges to the intellect and to neither accept nor reject, but to allow the truth to be revealed out of emptiness of the moment. It is a kind of common sense that is without position or opposition. When the mind is still, that is it is timeless, then the outcome is peace and freedom. Then a persons actions come from a place of peace and are not seeking to dispute or to affirm but to allow. To allow is to see without the self that is lost in a sea of opinion and conclusion. In the moment a person can look without prejudice and question without a position.

It is necessary to negate that which comes from conflict and fear. When a person has a position their is necessarily opposition which creates conflict. Position and opposition are one in the same. It is the duality of a self that knows. People create agendas out of fear, which is the self perpetuating desire to validate belief in order to escape fear. Fear which is the outcome and product of ones illusion of knowing and defining. Many people perceive negation as a position in its self. But the kind of negation that we are referring to is negation as a vehicle to truth. Negation in the illuminated sense is not negative or positive. But rather it is the letting go of all that hinders one from realizing the nature of the true self and with that seeing through the illusion of self knowing. The mind is constantly defining, remaining in a stagnation of thought that leads one in a circle of fear and conflict. A person needs to break through the minds conditioning, its consciousness of repeated conflict.

Once you have realized that you are being programed by your own desire and that what you seek only perpetuates that desire, then you can negate in a manner that allows freedom to take hold of your consciousness. Within that freedom is the illumination of the unknown and undefined. Having realized this it is now possible for you to live as the undefined. Nothing can touch the unknown and undefined because it is without form or function, but it is the only true reality. To live in that reality is to be without conflict and fear.