The Dualistic Nature of Thought

When the mind is engaged in thought the human brain has the ability to distinguish between the one who is thinking and what is being thought about.  This separation of thinker and the object of  his thinking is the basis for all the illusion that the mind creates. This conscious awareness of the activity of mind as an individuality that observes is the impetuous for all conflict.  The observer and what is observed is the division that creates contradiction.  And where there is contradiction there is conflict.  When the mind realizes this conflict then the search is on for a way to conquer it, to escape from it.  A neurosis is created that requires a solution.  The matrix for this activity is "time".  The illusion of time strengthens the dualistic nature of thought and creates a never ending pattern of problem and solution.  Solution which only leads to and is part of another problem.  As long as the mind is caught in this division then time goes on and time is the sorrow of the human race.

How is it possible to go beyond this duality?  First one must realize in the moment and be experiencing this division as a product of time.  One must see the relationship between duality and time.  That they are in fact inseparable, that they are one in the same.  The division between the observer and what is observed is time.  Time is never ending so sorrow is never ending.  To make it clearer....I see within myself the one who is watching, judging, censoring, accepting, rejecting, disciplining, controlling.  So you see the observer is the result of thought and so it follows that what is observed is also the result of thought.  They are the same entity, they are not separate activities.  When thought ceases this activity then there is complete total attention.

True understanding of thoughts dualistic nature is not the result of any form of effort or control.  To fuse  the thinker with his thoughts does not involve any effort of concentration or even meditation.  For to do so implies an agent who is seeking a means to an end.  When thought its self spontaneously comes to an end, then duality ceases to be.  One must be open, sensitive and fully aware of the reality of what is from moment to moment.

The Capacity to Understand

When you are engaged in the activity of thought, do you understand?  Is understanding the outcome of thought?  When the mind is preoccupied with ideas, with its natural tendency to divide, categorize and conclude is there true understanding?  Or does the mind merely fixate and verbalize the product of our so called learning.  Learning which is simply the repetition of what others have said and believe.  We think that we have intellect and understanding because we read books and listen to what the "experts" say.  It gives us a sense of a self that has the capacity to correlate and explain.  But do we ever experience an original intellectual conception?  Very few of us realize the original, understanding that is born of the original.  We live within a mind that is cultivated by what has been instead of realizing the new and never before.  The capacity to understand the newness of the moment requires a mind that is intensely aware, a mind that See's things as they actually are.  Such a mind is not obsessed with opinions about theories and codes.

A mind that is cluttered with all this accumulated meaningless junk prevents us from seeing.  It prevents us from having the capacity that is necessary for true understanding to flower.  The flower of true understanding begins with self discovery.  You have to realize that liberation from all beliefs is the first step.  Moving out the old so that you can see.  Negation is the road to the original.  When all is said and done nothing that is cultivated by thought is original.  The original is a spontaneous epiphany that is not a result of thoughts cunning objectives.

Because the mind is ever creating the illusion of knowing, the mind must be wholly aware of and free from its own self created distractions.  When the mind is utterly still and silent then thought ceases to be the agent of distraction and misunderstanding.  The mind is without verbalization.  Because thought is word and word is the illusion of the known.  The mind that is chattering cannot truly understand it can only react.  There is no such thing as abstract truth and understanding.  It comes uninvited, when the mind is free of all preparation, free of thoughts cunning intellection.

True Passion

What does it mean to have passion to be passionate?  When you wake up in the morning are you what you were yesterday, or has something new and never before been realized?  Is life just a series of events that either make you happy or sad?  Or do you live a life of intelligence and understanding? In order to experience true passion a person must first experience total abandonment of everything.  Letting go of all attachment.  The mind must be free of all its idealistic tendencies.  Total abandonment requires intense passion.  The kind of passion that turns all belief, desire and conformity on its head.  It leaves you empty and without any notion of a self that is seeking or acquiring.  Within this freedom is the essence of a mind that understands the illusion of position, power and prestige.

True passion is not emotion.  It does not have anything to do with the activity of doing or being.  It is not a romance or a respectable craft.  It is the flame within that destroys the minds preoccupation with the things that we call important.  True passion enables you to feel the world around you as if you were it.  Not a separate entity but a whole consciousness that moves with the leaves of a tree, with the impoverished, with the enormously rich and corrupt.  All things become as one movement.  To realize all this intensely is passion.

When you are passionate then you have a sensitivity to life.  Out of that sensitivity we realize love that is without a purpose.  In such a state their is no me that is censoring, that is right or wrong, moral or immoral.  With that love is born a new intelligence that understands the whole movement of life.  It is not a self centered intelligence, but it is a realization of the beauty of life and a new respect for its diversity and immensity.

This passionate mind is inquiring.  Such a mind does not belong to any organizational mentality.  It is a mind that is free to look without the angst of political, ideological, or religious imposition.  It is a mind that never arrives at conclusion.  But it is a mind that realizes the truth of the absolute moment, a mind that is not caught in the tradition of the past.  Neither is such a mind caught in the reformation of the old as if it were actual change.  Such a mind does not seek change, it is change.  True passion is without a cause.  It is free of all attachment.  Because it is totally unrelated to a cause, it is not an effect.  It is the truth of the absolute moment.