Consider "the personal"... I wonder if as you read you see the demand that we look into the truth about the nature and structure of "the personal"... I'm suggesting that all disorder, corruption and misery has its origins in this most false phenomenon...
First off... if I may suggest it, don't get carried away by assumtions about what I mean when I say "the personal"... let's just look... perhaps hesitatingly. I'm not working to propagate or back up some sort of theory, concept or belief. I'm working to live truthfully, to communicate truthfully in relationship so that there can be freedom, so that all people are free of fear, free of conflict... absolutely creative. I'm suggesting that we look into - see if we can be clear about what gets in the way of this... I'm suggesting that we have to understand this, much as we have to understand war, which comes right down to the conflict within ourselves, the grinding cycle of dominance and manipulation. What prevents creative release? What prevents creative action from occuring? What is the orgin, the platform of conflict? Is it possible to see it, and for life to take place free of it?
Isn't the platform of conflict as follows: that fire in the human mind whose presensce creates and perpetuates a sense of "me"? An apparently separate psychological entity? An entity which feels that it has control? You see? There is the fact of this moment, of consciousness... and then there is this thing which says, "me, I am perceiving consciousness, and I can do something about it." Isn't that the conflictual, downward spiral of human activity? Isn't that the platform which prevents the creative, passionate response within the human organism?
I know that for thousands of years we have been conditioned to believe otherwise - that it is "our will" or so-called "divine will through us" that creates civilization. But just look and this is exposed as vain, superficial spin. Why? Because in that scenario, there are two things. There is the fact of consciousness, and then there is that "me" thing, and the "me" is going to do something about the fact of consciousness... This is insane... impossible... life is occurring right now, it is a total movement. What could this separate entity be but the past, deluding itself into a sense of "personal power"? A clump of past images attempting to maintain coherency. It's impossible. I don't know if you see the truth of that.
Most unfortunately, in our delusion, we have created a world where this separate entity does appear to "get its way," however, all one has to do is look and feel to see the falseness of this world, the contradictions and corruptions at work... see that it "gets its way" at the expense of the very foundations of its existence, tearing apart the fragile and complex web of inter-relationships.
The insanity of the personal is inherent in the fact of consciousness, so it isn't "a belief" or a "theory"... not something that "you" have to figure out. Just as in looking, or feeling, one can perceive a cut on the skin, so can one see the falseness of the personal. Seeing the truth of consciousness doesn't have anything to do with belief, or most importantly, a believer. The possibility of the end of misery rests in looking, not looking "for something", but merely looking at WHAT IS because there is no choice! Anything other than what is is a fictitious creation of the past. Action might involve such a creation, but could not be based in it as the mind is trying to do now. No... Freedom rests in understanding, in seeing, in gently questioning so that the grip of personality can find no hold... looking, seeing that indeed, it can't be "me" looking, but that the so-called observer and the observed are ONE. In such seeing, wouldn't there be no choice but for the mind to give rise to a movement which was directly responsible to the fact of the matter, and necessarily free of the past? Look and see!
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