Cognitive Illusion

Life is fraught with the dissonance of competing ideals.  When you hold fast to all that creates the need for belief, opinion and acquisitiveness, then you are caught in the reflection of a mind that is constantly embroiled in what should be.  In life we are inevitably looking for the recognizable so that we can modify or reconcile a reality that does not conform.  The mind is psychologically programmed to actually look for the "new" as if it were something that conforms to recognition, either in a positive or negative way. But the totally new has no relationship to what has been.  It is never a product of recognition, of a cognitive defined experience.  Whatever is recognized is always the illusion of a self that is seeking. The self seeks the projection of its own mind because it lives out of experience.  It cannot go beyond its "knowing".

So if a person is at all serious about change, about realizing a new level of understanding.  Then one needs to first realize the depth of the illusion of cognitive thought.  Not in a positive or negative manner.  But of simply being aware and of living moment to moment in a sobriety of freedom and allowing.  To allow, means to accept the moment without minds projection of morality and all the rest of it. To stand outside minds reality of definition and illusion is to discover the new and never before. The new and never before does not conform to any of the things that you "believe".  Because it is outside the definition of intellect.  But this does not mean it is a product of some ethereal experience. All such experiences are a product of the ego self that thinks it knows. Whatever you "think" it to be, it is not.  If you think it is profound, then it is only profound till mind moves on to another ideal.  There is that moment, not of time, absent the self, that is a total letting go of everything. In that moment one may see what has never been "seen" and realize what cannot be a "realization".