understanding lived ...

The fuel which fires most of the immensely grotesque expressions of human disorder might be oil, but the root of human disorder was alive and well long before we started to burn oil to "get things done." The human mind has been on an erroneous tear. Please don't be fooled into believing that our buildings, flags, and machinery are an expression of intelligence. Deep inside, we remain greedy, tortured and confused, the contradiction and superficiality of our lives is obvious, and intelligence has gone out the weapon adorned, technologically advanced, legally ratified window.

So, what is most important is the possiblity that confusion might be understood, and that that understanding therefore be lived, right here, right now, in you, the reader. Understood does not mean "figuring out" or "concluding about." Understanding implies, doesn't it, a movement of comprehension, of seeing which is necessarily free of conflict? Can we go together into such understanding? What would impede such understanding? Doesn't belief, theory, impede seeing? It does. Obviously. More important, however, is understanding the "believer" the "theorist." What is this separate stance, this "controller" in the human mind? Surely, ANYTHING it does impedes understanding? Can you see the truth of this? In such seeing, there is understanding.

And such understanding is not property. Such understanding is not to be owned and then propegated. So there is no system of understanding, no authority, and therefore no time. There is just this immense conflict, immense confusion which demands understanding. The action of understanding would be the action of life - the brilliant phenomenon of the fact of consciousness, living itself with intelligence, entirely free of conflict.