Stimulation

 

 

Stimulations or the encouragement to develop or to become active, will vary in significance to the individual. But there is a similarity in all stimulations: the desire to escape from what really is and the mingling routine.

Psychological escapes are more harmful than the obvious ones, being more subtle, very complex and difficult to deal with.

The thought is the response of memory and determined conclusions, conscious or unconscious; this memory dictates action according to pleasure and pain. Ideas control action, and therefore we have conflict between action and idea. This conflict is always with us and as it intensifies it creates the urge to be free from it, where the attempt to be free from it becomes the escape.

The silence that is made up through disciplines, mental control, is the resistances of a reaction, a result; a silence which is not the outcome of stimulation, of sensation; a silence which is not put together, not a conclusion. It comes into being when the process of thought is understood.

Action follows the idea, and there is no action which is not the result of idea.” Idea is the outcome of memory; idea is the verbalization of a memory and makes it an inadequate reaction to the challenge at the time to life.

Ideas are the limit to action and only a safety field of ideas, but not in action; so action is made subservient to the idea. Establishing the personal idea and the self-protective pattern, this is the springboard and often obvious outcome for its action.

To escape from the present inevitably leads to illusion. To see the present as it actually is, without condemnation or justification, is to understand what is, and then there is action which free from individual stimulations.

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