The Idealistic Nature of Thought

What does it mean to be "Idealistic"?  When a person is exposed to stimulus, thought records that stimulus as memory.  Memory is applied to circumstances to insure that we have understood what has been.  Memory is a survival mechanism.  It also provides us with a means toward discovery.  The new and never before stands on the shoulders of the remembered.  But we must realize that the moment is not what was yesterday, it is the new and never before.  Idealism is the minds way of clinging to yesterday. And to want yesterday to continue.  So "thought" its self is basically a continuity of what has been.  We seek continuity because it is the known and is therefore a security in what is an insecure existence.

Idealism is a belief in something that has been an established mode of thought. It is ingrained in the mind as irrefutable evidence of something that is unchangeable.  The mind through this measure is seeking a kind of permanency.  It is an act of a totalitarian mind set.  The traditions of yesterday, the conservatism of so called "knowers" are the dead echoes of a mind that has ceased to engage in critical thought.  Critical thought does not mean, demeaning another because of your beliefs (political or religious). It means you question the one who is seeking, the entity that believes, the self that thinks it knows.  Because... it actually "knows" nothing.

One must always question what has been.  Otherwise the truth will never be revealed.  If you live in a bubble of conservative or idealistic thought, thought that has ceased to question what has been, then you cannot accept the moment as true reality.  You must reference your beliefs and then reconcile the moment (modify it) so that it can be accepted.  So as a tradition you continue down a path of delusion and sanctimonious indifference.

Can you break out of this mind that requires the past to "Be" the present?  Can we realize a new person with each and every new day?  A fresh mind that see's for the very first time a moment that has never been nor will ever be.  Can we look without a position in doing so avoid opposition? Of course we can because we have realized the "unconditioned", a mind that does not require conformity.  Such a mind see's the reality of the absolute moment as it actually is.