Words, Time and Space
What are the psychological implications of naming our experiences, of creating words that define an action or circumstance? Are we not in essence creating a past for ourselves? The memory of what was. So we relive things over and over in our minds. We never have completely dealt with the actual moment, all we did was name and define it. Naming helps us escape from the moment. Because we are escaping, we are not understanding the complete significance of that moment. Understanding the self does not take time or words. It takes action in the moment that involves an awareness that is wholly without the activity of defining and "wording". The element of time is created by our ability to put off the moment and move into its facsimile (the illusion of memory) which interferes with the complete understanding of the "next" moment. Perhaps a person can now see how the mind competes with its self, creating all sorts of neurosis around the memory of a perceived event. So essentially memory clouds perception.
Memory is part of one's logical mind. It helps us to avoid danger and is part of our evolutionary experience. But because we have not completely understood the implications of memory and the illusion of naming (defining) it is also the psychologically destructive element of a conditioned consciousness. What would life be like if we did not allow memory (our conditioning) to interfere with our understanding of the absolute moment? The moment would not be tainted by our opinions and prejudice. We would accept people as they are without demanding that they conform to our expectations. And because we see the moment as it is, we are able to realize the true meaning of love. Love without conditions, without the movement of a mind that is tethered to the ugliness of dogma and absolutes. Thought that does not verbalize has thrown off its connection to time and space as the separation of the self and what it knows. This intelligence that is beyond time and space has an opportunity to flourish. And in that moment we realize that it is not "our" intelligence, but something that thought cannot touch.
Memory is part of one's logical mind. It helps us to avoid danger and is part of our evolutionary experience. But because we have not completely understood the implications of memory and the illusion of naming (defining) it is also the psychologically destructive element of a conditioned consciousness. What would life be like if we did not allow memory (our conditioning) to interfere with our understanding of the absolute moment? The moment would not be tainted by our opinions and prejudice. We would accept people as they are without demanding that they conform to our expectations. And because we see the moment as it is, we are able to realize the true meaning of love. Love without conditions, without the movement of a mind that is tethered to the ugliness of dogma and absolutes. Thought that does not verbalize has thrown off its connection to time and space as the separation of the self and what it knows. This intelligence that is beyond time and space has an opportunity to flourish. And in that moment we realize that it is not "our" intelligence, but something that thought cannot touch.
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