The End Of Survival

Survival is what rules the brain. The hardwiring is there in infancy for the physical organism to survive.

The psychology that that brain is programmed with, is done so by the environment, the culture, parents, and all the external mind-stuff that is the human condition.

The identity is a product of that, but it is more abstract than a consciousness that is totally dedicated to surviving, such as is an animal. The human mind that is unconsciously following its burden of programming is in a state of instability within itself, a state where it is never free and a state in which it is confused and contradictory. This sense of the world through a programmed mind is felt through the phenomenon of suffering. Because we suffer, we long to escape. We know that there is something wrong, that there is something missing in life. We are missing something. There must be something better, there must be a way out. Thus, seeking begins.

To solve this we instinctively turn to our minds, that are an extension of our survival consciousness, to solve this problem of suffering. But the mind and its reasoning are the very stuff of suffering. They hold within memory, the psychological self that is the sufferer, along with all the hurt and fear of the past. This is the dead end, the realization where all is meaningless. Life has hit a wall.

As a human society, we have not yet freed ourselves of the innate psychological fear that we must survive. We have not questioned to a sufficient depth into who we actually are. We have not evolved that much further than the animal. It is a relative evolution. As long as survival of the ‘me’ drives our consciousness, humanity will suffer.

What is the next step in evolution?

What is the next step in consciousness?

The next step is into the unknown, a step into releasing time as a concept, as a psychological projection that runs our lives. A step into something entirely alien to everything that we have accumulated and acquired. Beyond intellect and the worshipping of the products intellect, namely thought and all that thought has produced including the 'I'.

This is frightening to the 'I', but it is all within the answer to the question of how do we as human beings end suffering? To end suffering is to end the self. To end the self is to end thought as the center of consciousness. Thought becomes a peripheral tool for an awareness that is not touched by time. To end the primacy of thinking is to end confusion. To end confusion is to end choice. Each human is choicelessly aware of what is. Only then will there be a real and lasting peace.