The "Incredible Lightness of Being" as Infinite Inconsistency

The egoic conceptualization (belief) that you will have some egoless experience outside time is most likely the cause of egoic suffering. Yet, it's a comfortable idea to a very uncomfortable ego seeking to learn how to achieve ever greater comfort in a world defined by suffering and sacrifice. Isn't that all you really want?

However, if the experience of ego-self was formulated in consciousness (since it’s really nothing more than that) then most likely enlightenment is process just as the ego-self is process. There is no static or solidified self-concept (even though we tend to 'live' as though there were) and the very nature of ego-self is composed of consistent change or infinite inconsistency.

The ego-mind has deluded itself into conceptualizing an "awakening," as some point in time, of pure, unadulterated consistency and this is how it defines "truth." This is because ego-self believes its suffering is a result of change or inconsistency. But that's what IT IS and therefore, in seeking a point of pure consistency it essentially seeks NOT to be itself, which it can never be. Therefore, for an ego-self that can never be anything but an ego-self, there is no such concept as timelessness, only infinite time.

Ego-self is time-oriented and for ego to be timeless means not to exist at all and who wants to not exist or Be? The ego-self is a time-based concept, since it requires “development” through which to be known to itself. Ego-self conceptualized being “born” and in time it knows itself as “existing” through change as ever more egoic or self-oriented. This is why I continue to contend that any attempts to pursue egolessness, or transcend ego, only builds a bigger ego.

Nevertheless, as the theory goes, following birth the ego then engages in concept accumulation (constructing a belief system) up to a point where it then realizes the psychological concepts it has collected actually hide something it needs to KNOW as that which provides a "final knowing." True, something is hidden, but it's not anything final. In fact, it's the experience of infinite inconsistency that you've been resisting all this time. There can be no final anything.

At this point the ego must then begin a sort of backward realizing of less and less concepts concerning itself, or engage in a process of conceptual stripping (dissociating from concepts of itself) which many equate with a return to the consciousness that existed at or before “birth.” The less concepts the egoic mind is attached to, the greater freedom it experiences.

This conceptual stripping is really what many consider as "awakening" episodes. This is because, as you realize that attachment to concepts, or beliefs, is a choice, you empty your baggage which becomes lighter by degrees. This experiencing has been referred to as "the incredible lightness of being" but most just call it "awakening."

Therefore, the process of egoic learning is actually an unlearning and "enlightenment," or "awakening," can only be within the process of learning-to-unlearn what ego has defined as itself. Yet, the process never ends and most likely goes on after-death. This is because it is the ego-self, or "you" that must define itself as dead. So if an ego-self defines itself as dead, clearly this opens the door to a new game we call "afterlife." Many might argue that an ego cannot define itself as "dead" the moment the body expires, since the go expires with it. Well...you can play by that rule if you so choose, however, I would suggest that this rule has resulted in a great deal of "before-death" suffering.

There is NEVER a point in time at which an ego-self can have learned everything needed to be egoless. This is because the chief defining factor of ego-self is learning-in-time. An end of time signifies an end of learning, which obviously means an end to self. “You” can never end because learning can never end. Learning is infinite.

The Truth (cap T) is that learning is infinite and there is no point at which ALL is known. Truth has no finite properties. Accumulative 'knowing,' or unlearning through stripping of concepts, just keeps going on and on, since Truth must be infinite and cannot be a finite point in time, because that means Truth would have a finite end point. Truth cannot stop or have an end for it to be Truth. Therefore, it cannot be suddenly known, all inclusivley, as some infinite 'understanding' at some point in time, since infinite understanding presupposes never knowing. It can only be infinitely learned but never fully known because the knowing is infinite or never ending. Thus, the incredible lightness of being is merely being infinitely inconsistent.

Duh!
mikeS