What is Psychological Death and Why is it Important?

Does government exist because we lack Self-Wisdom? The root meaning of “government” is to govern=control + mental=mind. Mind control is based on each person controlling their own mind “by choosing to egotistically become”. We're told to choose to become a “good person”. Suppress anything that doesn't conform to community ideals of what is goodness. Holistically-Seeing in the present moment that Heads-IS-Tails of the same psychological coin, your mind is then rooted in Fact where it is Whole. So Order IS security for the Mind, Body & Environment.

The body is rooted in fact. Ego is rooted in fiction. For centuries the Ego of humanity has been practicing “Blood Sacrifices”; it's called War! The ego is a parasite because when the mind doesn't SEE itself, conflict not only exists in the mind but its a wave that mushrooms out like a nuclear bomb – disintegrating our bodies, the biosphere & atmosphere. “As above (psyche); so is below (body)”.

Opposing Fact with Fiction is destructive to the physical world. It is not a question of getting a so-called “good” image-belief. Regardless if you put a “positive” spin on it, conforming to the “what should be” [the ideal] brings about a division between the psychological observer & the ideal. One compares themselves to an ideal. Right then, one has caused a division between the Fact (what I am) and the ideal of “what I should be”. Once the mind is fragmented, it must then resist the Truth and cling to a fiction. Then that fiction has psychologically “manufactured” The Master or God. There is a struggle in the mind between “what I am” (bad) and “what I want to be” (a concept of “goodness”). Thought is memory, which is inherently limited. Thought tries to become a master and enslaves others into “believing” in order to prove to itself that is can “become” measureless. It can become “God” - the one who controls the lives of everyone and gets to decide who lives and who dies.

The condition of the tree's root determines what happens to the rest of it. Ego IS the Root cause of the world's mental and physical present condition. We need to understand that freedom can never be obtained through choosing an ideal in which to be identified with, emotionally. We feel unimportant so we chase after its opposite; so we join a tribe (gang, nation, cult, sect, etc.) in order to elevate our sense of power and importance. The mind is struggling to convince itself that it is safe and that it is mighty and that it is great and that it can love. When we shatter the Wholeness of our mind in order to be in control of life, we are in a state of disintegration, which is the antithesis of stability. All that we do to try to bring about a solution only fragments the problem, more and more. Conforming to ones desire of how they want reality to be is detrimental to the physical security. That is why we have economic class divisions. And the Law of Reality indicates that where there is division, psychologically speaking, there must be conflict, which destroys the physical equilibrium (body, biosphere and atmosphere).

Life & Death are one unit. Our bodies are living and dying simultaneously. Now then... Man has violated that sacred balance of Life & Death by believing in images (positive or negative ones). When the mind feels a disturbance, it must understand the fact that any disturbance IS, in fact, itself. The reason there is a disturbance is that means it is necessary to learn about itself through Pure Awareness (and nothing else). When we watch a thing with our whole being, that is Pure Energy that is watching the nature of this emotional state. It is not trying to correct what is being studied. Since we are the subject, we can't intervene without causing a division which must cause conflict between “what I feel that I dislike” = fact and the opposing wish or desire of how I would like to feel= a belief/image of myself. The “image” that I make of myself (regardless if that image is flattering or not) is still an image, which is fiction masquerading as “truth” – which is the opposite of what I really feel.

The suppressed feeling boils and fester and so there is a the duality between Fact & Fiction. The belief was born out of fear. The fear of being fully observant, sensitive and wholly aware of being disturbed, caused a fracture in the mind. The mind chooses a Fiction to hide from its pain. But in choosing to hide in the Fictitious state of mind, there is no peace of mind. Peace can only come when the mind is Whole. As long as the mind seeks shelter, psychologically, it will never find real peace. Therefore, conflict must end/die naturally, without any force. When one observes a fact, that observation is not opposing it. It simply sees the truth of what it feels. There is no struggle or fiction to observe. There is no agenda or motive to fulfill a desire. One is simply learning about the mind, holistically (without a controller). One can watch their “controller” and see how it deceives itself. 

What we are inquiring into is not a system you can memorize and implement. We pretend that certain words are holy or sacred. All words come from memory. The eternal cannot be captured by the mind of man. However, we all have the capacity to “Holistically Observe” the limitations of our psyches. In seeing the fact as a fact, there is no longer opposition to the fact. The total awareness of how believing operates and that it can never bring order or peace, free the mind from confusion and conflict.

The only thing that makes a disturbed state of mind continue in that state is its struggle against it through the identification with the opposite “ideal” or “future salvation”. There is no salvation in the future. Either you see now what you are, or you pretend to see it and continue on being at war with yourself. Your relationship to your own mind is the way you are related to others. If you lie to yourself, well you must do that with everyone, as well. If you are secretly in conflict and unaware that you are, the evidence shows in your relationship the things, people and ideas. If you can see that all efforts to live up to any “ideal” is futile, then you are free from conflict and you are no longer contributing to the conflict in the whole world. But if you hide from yourself, then that will cause destruction to yourself and to others (in one form or another).

And finally, is it possible not be psychologically hurt nor to hurt another?

Yes it is possible. There is holistic vigilance within and without, simultaneously, when you watch the movements of ones mind, without willing oneself to react in any particular way. But, you copy another person, I'm afraid. No person can give clarity or wisdom to another person; you have to look at Truth directly. Wisdom is seldom talked about. It has been taken for granted (or believed) that “Wisdom” is merely a matter of living for a long time, and gathering experience as its foundation of authority. No true. Time has nothing at all to do with real “Wisdom”.

“Wisdom” cannot be achieved or sought after for itself. A thing that is sought after is based on what you know. So one is only seeking a modified version of the past/known. For eons people have sought the impossible endeavor. The Ego wants to be absolutely powerful (in other words – limitless). Thought is memory and psychological time.

What is psychological time?

One is angry. That is a fact. The mind responses to the fact by desiring to “detach” from that feeling. There is “what I feel”. Fear of what I feel wants to move away from the fact by seeking something that the mind presumes to be “better” than the fact (the truth). Psychological time is introduced by “the desire to not be that fact”. So we are encouraged to “believe in any set of comforting words that you like”. That harder you concentrate on those words and tell yourself that they are the truth, you will eventually escape from your emotional anxiety. So the concept or belief that one is trying to emotionally become takes time to attain. To go from anger to compassion by way of approximating oneself to an image is an impossibility. The preoccupation to achieve a state of Nirvana, within the psyche, is the endless game of psychological-hide-and-seek.

Psychological Time means that I may be disturbed now but I will concentrate on becoming the opposite of that. However, the opposite born out of the same root memory is merely the same content with a different face on it. For example, when one divides oneself by chasing after the “image of what I want to become” one is destroying the essence of ones ability to perceive reality. Once the mind can't see itself as it really is, it is a contradiction. The contradiction began the moment you become emotionally attached to an image in order to avoid observing your emotional responses. The image is a fabrication that is opposing a disturbing truth. So image, born out of memory, covers up the present fact. That is violence to push away the truth and replace it with a lie and treat that lie as if it were the truth. That is being in a perpetual state of contradiction.

Reality is Truth and it simply Is! Whereas, this like/dislike emotional reaction wants to dictate to Reality/Truth what its version of “reality” is. So when you create an image about yourself in order to become “better” than you are, you are at odds within yourself (and therefore with the world, as well).

The Universe/Cosmos IS PERFECT ORDER and is Reality/Fact. So when the mind opposes Reality within itself by refusing to “Holistically Observe” all of its emotional responses (regardless if I like them or not), it is also against the Universe and the underlying Energy that animates all living things.

This is why most of humanity is in psychological pain. The more pain there is, the more people increase that pain by blindly “believing” harder and harder in “non-realities” better known as beliefs.

A real thing does not require being believed in. It does not require praise nor worship. You don't need to beg it for a “better life”. When there is psychological pure alertness to the whole movement of ones emotional responses, “Wisdom” comes into being. Something unknown takes place when the mind quietly watches itself – there is a non-mechanical learning unfolding. There is space without a “Center” to perceive “what I feel” until that feeling has told its complete story and naturally ends. The death of fragmentation is the birth of wholeness. But, wholeness cannot be pursued.

What is Psychological Death and Why is it Important?

The nature of the mind is to continue repeating itself. In other words, the bottom line is that the main objective of the human ego is simply to be able to go on being dysfunctional and challenging the Universe. Thought wants to control everything, including itself. But, a thing in conflict within cannot contain its conflict. Thought dominating thought leads to an endless chain of domination, which is violent and there is no freedom from that pattern so long as one blindly follows their programming of thinking.

Upon discovering for yourself that your mind can never control itself to “become” good, loving, peaceful through “believing” into existence (thru words & emotions), then such a false pursuit naturally drops away – that is Psychological Death. Conflict comes to a COMPLETE END when it sees that it is a contradiction. It sees that either promoting or chasing after the “image of peace” begets its opposite. One has an “image of what love is”. When people marry, they are attempting to be united. Facts can unite, but illusions cannot. Love is a state of Wholeness. There is NO IMAGE/BELIEF that can guide you to that Wholeness. A fraction can never become a whole. Images are a shadow of the original. The shadow has no substance. That is why a concept about Love is merely a shadow, not the real thing. What is the point of seeking The Truth. Truth is perceived in the hear and now whatever you are thinking and feeling. Because the mind is the content of his or her consciousness, it is self-destructive to pick and choose which parts you will acknowledge and which parts you will ignore. That is discrimination and prejudice – favoring some thoughts and feelings and rejecting others. Then, we turn around and treat the people around us that way, as well.

Merely having technological know-how is not going to solve anything. Systems of governing the lives of people is the problem and the people in them who are psychologically lazy. No one wants to be responsible for Holistically Seeing the Truth. The Truth is that ALL images are founded in corruption. Corruption can be easily understood by taking this metaphor: A Trojan Horse file comes along with the “helpful” suggestion of offering you assistance. It would appear that there may be a problem, click on this (unknown readily available and free software) button to scan your hard drive to make sure no harmful files were accidentally downloaded. So if you “believe” in that benevolent message, you will obey. Once the virus hits your hard drive it corrupts your files on your computer system so that nothing can operate. Your system has either been crippled or destroyed.

This human existence has been running off of psychologically corrupt approach to its own psychological existence. The files have been corrupted from millions of years ago. People have been getting rewarded for maintaining fragmentary living. It changes the labels, but its content has been virtually the same as it was in the very beginning. Conflict coming from the human mind is The System! Whenever we socialize, we invite each other to lie to each other. We tell each other that we are a certain race (that causes division). We have take it for granted that being a “good” person means you must follow social tradition. When holidays come, we must say certain phrases like, “Merry Christmas”, “Happy Thanksgiving” or “Happy New Year”. This is conforming to ideals in order to pretend that this is what Order is. The only thing that is Order to to be Aware of “what is”, not to make it up and then pretend that its real. Psychological conformity is violence. It denies the mind's ability to See itself, completely.

Ideals breaks up the mind and compartmentalizes it like a jigsaw puzzle with its multifarious fragments. Now some pieces may be larger than others, but they are all still pieces. When one realizes that all ideals, beliefs are just images that are pretending to have the answer to suffering, then that realization ends all seeking. There is only security in perfect stillness of the mind – seeing that to seek is to only find what has been found which is the past. When ones actually sees the danger of blindly following beliefs that IS Psychological Death. Because, the psyche is no longer in opposition to itself. The Death of opposition is the birth of Peace and Love and Holistic Intelligence.

Holistic Intelligence knows where and when knowledge is necessary and when it is not. Thought makes plans (images) for physical or technical reasons; that is our survival tool for our physical security in life. That tool becomes a dangerous weapon of mass destruction whenever it uses images for reasons of superiority and prestige. Without Psychological Death, this world is doomed. We have such a primitive and puerile attitude towards Death. Death is not evil. How could we live without each Day & Night ending. When something ends another thing is born. The Death of ones childhood is the birth of adulthood. The Death of Insanity is the Birth of Clarity. So naturally the cause of this chaotic human psychological deceptive way of existing must end or else it will gut this world. One does need to fight against this madness. That is madness fighting itself (King Kong vs. Godzilla). They were monsters that was tearing up the town and scaring everyone. When you use violence as a solution to violence all one is doing is living for violence – end of story. Peace requires deep clarity to study he problem and in that study Intelligence spawns. For a millions of years humans have had only one kind of response to conflict and that was to use conflict to end conflict. After all this time, why hasn't thought, which claims to be intelligent, why has it not stop trying to get the same make conflict be the answer? That is because, the real Truth is that people would rather continue doing what they know than to change, radically. That means total change from the root on out. The root is having an image or belief about yourself.

Death is a word

You cannot be frightened of the unknown because you do not know what the unknown is and so there is nothing to be frightened of. Death is a word, and it is the word, the image, that creates fear. So can you look at death without the image of death? As long as the image exists from which springs thought, thought must always create fear.

Freedom from the Known,75

Jiddu Krishnamurti