completely creative action...

Consciousness itself... the very fact of "is-ness", is a single movement. For thousands of years, the human brain has been denying this fact. A most unfortunate, and obviously incorrect phenomenon has been occurring in which memory in the brain has stepped forward or refused to take its place as PAST. Memory has claimed a voice. Suddenly, in the single movement of consciousness, there is the mistaken impression that there are TWO things, "ME" and "CONSCIOUSNESS"... you see? Because this secondary entity, the establishment of the PAST as "me", is false, it is necessarily and ceaselessly thwarted by the fact of consciousness itself. For some reason, mankind has not been able to understand this, the stormy feeling of this contradiction has come to be called pain and fear, and the secondary entity has remained necessarily at battle, always working to "gain control", to "overcome" pain and fear, and to protect itself in what you can see is an impossible, downward spiral of horrifying futility. Something which isn't and can never be real has claimed the human organism. So it spends its days not only being torn apart on the inside, but also necessarily tearing apart the fragile and astonishingly complex fabric of this wonderous life in relationship, all in an impossible bid to bring the past into the present.

There are times where the orgainsm finds itself in a sphere whose details seem to strike deeper than the daily war, and for a moment, the war seems to be over... the memory appears to have
"won" and life seems to have a magic about it. This is the phenomenon of pleasure. Identified with the memory of that pleasure, instantly, the "me" wants more of it, becomes dependent upon it. Sex, drugs, a pleasing vista, a waterfront view. In protecting itself, the secondary entity joins with other secondary entities to perpetuate its war on the fact, and so sets up organizations, traditions, governments, religions, "relationships", channels of conduct by which the war is made "respectable", noble, pleasurable, "spritual" even. Interpersonal pleasure becomes a commodity as I must find out the image you are nurturing in yourself to fight with consciousness, and stroke that image, giving you a hit of pleasure, control and righteousness... you become dependent upon me, so as you stroke the image in yourself, you stroke my image, and we live in a struggle to perpetuate a pleasurable delusion, perpetuating human attachment and war.

So please, if i may suggest it, don't ask "what to do?" Because if you look, who is asking? Isn't it just more of that secondary entity? Please, look and see the truth of all this. If there is a looking with a mind which sees the falsness of the secondary enity, then observation becomes an alltogether different matter. For such a mind there could be only the seeing of "what is", the fact of consciousness. Such a mind IS the fact of consciousness, and there is an understanding which has nothing to do with a secondary entity. Such understanding would be completely creative action.