Haiti's Devastating Earthquake and The U.S War on Terrorism.

A day after a 7.0 earthquake devastated the tiny, impoverished island country of Haiti, the fact that the United States will be spending $2 billion dollars a day on war in the Middle East seems all the more absurd. From my point of view, the amount of money consistently spent on perpetuating the most barbarous of human actions, technologically sophisticated or not, is nothing short of a 9 year violation of the human rights of over half a billion people, including the 360, or so, million people of North America.

And to know what could be done with so much money, so much human effort and energy, other than waging war makes me ponder why so many of us just allow it to continue to be o.k. Wake up tomorrow morning and another $2 billion goes up in smoke. Go away for the weekend and another $6 billion is gone. Are we all crazy? Can people not see how thought dictates the actions of the planet and how this thought is sick, twisted? You sit in a semi-vegetative state and hear, but do not listen, to a man in a shiny uniform say, 'well, we can't just pull out, if we do, the enemy wins.' And you buy it? This is what I would call crazy-land and thought is leading the tour.

I'm sorry to be the one to inform you, I'm truly sorry because I'm no one, I don't have a title, or uniform, or authority, but human rights are not denied by a regime, or a group of individuals, or a system of government or tribal guidelines in some far off place. Human rights are denied through the continual ingestion of the narcotic we call thought. Human rights are denied through the content of consciousness. Enlightenment, such a dirty little word, is a matter of human rights and nothing more. So put down your signs, step away from the protest line, take a break from your political banter, stop stuffing your face or supporting the troops and WAKE UP!!! The issue is in your very own consciousness, you are the one responsible, no one else. Or, don't bother and we can continue to spend $2 billion a day on death, destruction and the birth of future hatred.

May all the people of Haiti find peace in their hearts and the strength to rebuild their lives without their loved ones.

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Time, Reality, The Individual, and That Which Lies Beyond.

Time is how the accumulating movement of mind measures itself, it is the very sensation of the movement of mind itself, for the movement is of continuity, recognition, and isolation. Time, and how one personally measures it, is one of the single greatest factors of isolation. And it is through isolation that one comes to define and recognize their environment and themselves.

The world of your parents, gurus, siblings, teachers, friends, enlightened peoples, role models, those attaining this or that, is a world of recognition which breeds isolation. And a world of recognition is one constructed by and of the accumulating movement of mind, it is what we call reality. And, unfortunately, this reality is a sorrowful game one has no choice in not playing. Being born is your entrance fee and every moment there after unfolds within the reality we unconsciously construct through allowing the accumulating movement of mind to operate without our awareness of its nature or consequences. Within this landscape called reality the accumulating movement, the movement of the past, constructs a self for each physical body from the accumulated information of past constructed selves. Clearly it is a collective movement which merely creates the illusion of individuality through its own ability to fragment, or separate, some information from other information. This fragmentation allows the isolated information to evolve in a matter one experiences as more or less individual, separate, unique, at least when perceived from a purely superficial standpoint.

This ability of the past to fragment/isolate itself is strengthened to the point of solidification through the fact that the movement continues to evolve and accumulate based on its now self-centered desire to become more, different, grow, live, express itself, know that it exists as it recognizes itself as being. And it is how this movement of the past conceives of itself, during any particular period of time, that defines and drives the actions and decisions of mankind since thought and memory began. The concept of self is rooted in the accumulating movement of mind, is rooted in the past, it is never beyond this movement, big or small 's'. Self has no independent, actual existence beyond the movement of the past. It is a concept and concepts represent aspects, qualities, or forms in reality but that which lies beyond the movement of the past, and its grip on the mind and perception, if such a 'something' exists, is not of reality and therefore no concept can accurately or inaccurately represent it.

It is out of bounds, the rules of the game, of reality do not apply. It may seem possible to the mind but then again, the mind is a prisoner to its own movement. Or in other words, the mind is its movement and that which is beyond the mind is not, if such a 'something' exists. Let us refer to that which lies beyond the mind as life, and the mind is but the movement to remember it, hold it, record it, represent it in one way or another. Now this is obviously not the life we commonly refer to, the one separated from death, the one dictated by our senses or perceived reality. It is a life that cannot be approached through and of the movement of the mind, of accumulated knowledge. Therefore, to approach this life, to live, one must understand the accumulating movement of mind, its nature and the consequences of its continual, unconscious operation.

To me, this is a matter of human rights, not spirituality, religion, or any other such separative non-sense. If you believe each human being has the right to live, free of the sorrow, suffering, and torment inflicted by another, then this inquiry is your only option. Everything else is but a movement of isolating deception, every other choice is but your next move in the game of life, the reality you construct to feed your own appetite. This inquiry into the accumulating movement of mind is the action of liberating humanity from self-inflicted tyranny and suffering. Are you serious, are you listening, or are you merely entertaining yourself as you pass the 'time?'

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To Be is To Be the Imitation of Another.

Out of a world of over 6 billion people, how many are able to listen to what we speak of here together? If it is not your life that will be effected, your life that will turn a corner, who's will? Your life, being that concentration of awareness on and within a particular form, what is it for? Why does one continue to live a life based on the concept of other? For a self-centered life is a life based on the concept of other-ness, did you know that? The image of self is a construct of the conceived of 'other'. Are we following one another?

A self-centered life is but the internal imitation of what one considers an other life to be. Living as a self is internalizing imitation to such an extent that it is no longer noticeable, it becomes unconscious. Isn't that quite something, that being an individual is to be the imitation of another? Self-centeredness is the concept of other-ness evolving, becoming, growing, being more, better, improving. If your life is held together by the thread of need, the need to be secure, comfortable, admired, recognized, valued, correct, justified, greater than, (fill in the blank) you are living the imitated life, the life of a shadow attempting to influence that which casts you. Are we hearing one another? To live a life as the 'other', which is to live one's life as a somebody, a self, me, centered in self, is to live life from the outside looking in. You may call it beautiful, you may call it magical, you may call it mysterious or grand, but you will never know what life is looking from the outside in.

You can invent all sorts of fantastic theories, you can experience all there is to experience, you can push the concept of otherness to the far reaches of the known universe, but life will always escape your grasp, your sight, your understanding. Everyone, caught up in looking at everyone else, imagining what and who they are, imagining where and why they stand, imagining what life is through conceiving of it in another. That 'other' is God, Shakespeare, your Guru, professor, mother, friend, and lover, a million times over again. It is the 'other' you live for, the 'other' you live through, the 'other' which defines your reality, sets your limits, and closes the door to your prison. There is the 'other' and the reaction to the 'other', which is but the 'other' evolving, or becoming different through the continual modification of itself.

In the web of relationship, the world we share, there is no individuality, only a collective sense of otherness, modifying itself. To be an individual, by the true sense and meaning of that word, one would have to be alive, and in the field of life there is no 'other'.

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Order and the Movement of the Past- Part 10.

So we have introduced the word ‘resistance’ to our discussion. And, for reference, let us equate the movement of resistance with the movement of the past, with continuity itself. In other words, the past reacting with the present moment, in some way, indicates a resistance to the present moment. The past is a counter force to the movement of the present moment, it alters, changes, resists. And fundamentally, we would have to say that this resistance to the present moment is a resistance to not knowing what is happening.

Not knowing the outcome, risk, purpose, orientation, cause, reason, meaning, not knowing in its totality, gross and subtle. But where does this need to know come from? In a purely reflexive interaction there would be no need to know, only reflexes. However, as you may remember, these reflexes of ours are conditioned. They are conditioned but not dead, meaning a conditioned reflex arising in the moment at hand effects the memory of this moment, which when compressed in the storehouse of accumulation, alters the conditioning that will arise the next moment it is called forth. The conditioned is part of a continual, conditioning process. So I think one can see how the movement of the past, of conditioning and continuity, can refine itself through time, possibly for the purpose of becoming more precise and efficient reflexes, but need no outside agent to do so.

Self: a Mindset, the Psychological Outcome of the Movement of the Past.

But one may ask, more precise and efficient for what purpose? Are not these reflexes of the past serving the physical body/brain? Are they not reflexes created through the desire to survive, the need for the physical body to continue? Can the most basic of these reflexes not be found to be serving the needs of the body to eat, sleep, and procreate? And the ever increasing need to secure these needs into the future? So somewhere in the last two or three sentences we created a self, did we not? It all started with introducing purpose to the reflexive moment of the past. The recognition of purpose seems to be a basic building block in self-centered consciousness. And as we’ve said, recognition is simply the measuring of fragments of knowledge against one another, or comparing one fragment of information with another. Through comparison one arrives at purpose, where purpose is a purely future-based form of knowledge. That future may not be very far off, but it is still a clear departure from the purely past-based reflexes.

The Introduction of a Future is the Introduction of a Self.

In other words, as the capacity of the body for memory is still small, purely reflexive interactions with the present moment take place instinctively, automatically. But as the capacity of memory increases one continues to have purely reflexive interactions but also exhibits the ability to remember said reactions within the context the reactions took place. And it is through the ability to compare reflexes within their remembered context that creates purpose. And with purpose you have the seed of individuality. Purpose also feeds the evolution of continuity, for now you have continuity with purpose, which creates a directive, or a direction something in particular continues to follow through time. And putting purpose, directive, continuity, and language together creates, in time, an incredible sense of being, a self-informed form in consciousness. Though forever but consequences of the accumulating movement of mind, mechanical in nature, purpose, directive, continuity and language create an intoxicating form that completely hides this reflexive process from view.

The Self, Far Beyond an Instrument of Measurement.

How does this infusion whose very being depends upon the accumulating movement hide this movement from view? For one, the self harnesses the ability to direct attention, for it has harnessed the authority of need. The need of the self supersedes all other need and so there is a distorting of thought, feeling, and perception in order to serve the needs of the self. And, therefore, the illusion of self becomes part of the conditioning process, enters the compression stream of memory and knowledge, that reflexively interacts, with purpose, directive, and a need for continuity, in the present moment. And once this interaction is compressed in memory, moving through, and as, the accumulating movement of mind, the very movement which spawned its birth in the first place, the self becomes an objective reality, seemingly independent of the movement of mind. Which, of course, brings us back to order and the past’s demand to establish order in its own image. For the order the past must establish and maintain, is not only an order rooted in all things known, but an order for, and with, an independent self at the center.

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