No mind no thought. Conflict arises when there is thought that champions opinion. I raise the flag and rejoice in my chosen way of life, my traditions, culture and I pride myself I am not conditioned and can swap my culture and so on, yet I have merely gone from one set of conditions to another. Ah but I am not in any conditions I have seen the folly of being trapped in the above and now am free. Ah but am I ?
I now have the subtle belief I am free of conditioning, yet it is only an intellectual freedom and I will defend my understanding of it, I will use words and cunning connivance's to persuade others and more like myself about the freedom I have obtained.
The intellectual enlightenment and freedom is but a thought away or rather away with thought and as long as there is a vestige of thought there is conflict. Every thought has a duality and therefore implies choice and that choice is based and translated through ones conditioning and background no matter how free one feels.
Intellectual understanding is a sort of freedom, it can be the ego giving one the sense of I am enlightened, yes enlightened up to a point, the ego shies away from the true absence of thought and does so because thought is a habit. Thought is robotic and many do not question their thoughts, to many thought is natural, the inner dialogue is there, the constant mind chatter, the restless monkey, I am alive because of my mind stuff telling me so, that internal dialogue is me, what will happen if it ceases. The brain has grown and over the years the hunter gatherer was less in their head and more visceral, now fear has crept into the brain, visceral feeling replaced by fear chatter brain thoughts.
So our lives are built on the chatter and internal restless mind and there is sense it is not solid, it is only a thought away from extinction.
Yet in that gap when realised the above in a way is absurd and in the moment of rare glimpses when thought stops, not by suspension and repression, there is a peace, a tranquillity and one wonders do I really have to think at all, or at least all of the time. Thought becomes limited naturally and is probably used just for day to day things.
Then the mind is at rest and another type or experience occurs; the mind discovers its source and lives by the intuitive(not impulsive wildness) but the natural efficiency of the natural mind, a mind in cohesion with its source and conflict is non existent.
SHACK
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