transformation sans motivation ( 30 oct 06 mon)

How am I to transform? I see the truth - at least, I see something in it - that achange, a transformation, must begin at a level that the mind, as the conscious orthe unconscious, cannot reach, because my consciousness as a whole is conditioned.So, what am I to do? I hope I am making the problem clear? If I may put itdifferently, Can my mind, the conscious as well as the unconscious, be free ofsociety? - society being all the education, the culture, the norm, the values, thestandards. Because if it is not free, then whatever change it tries to bring aboutwithin that conditioned state is still limited, and therefore no change at all.So, can I look without any motive? Can my mind exist without any incentive, withoutany motive to change or not to change? Because any motive is the outcome of thereaction of a particular culture, is born out of a particular background. So, can mymind be free from the given culture in which I have been brought up? This is reallyquite an important question. Because if the mind is not free from the culture inwhich it has been reared, nurtured, surely the individual can never be at peace, cannever have freedom. His gods and his myths, his symbols, and all his endeavors arelimited, for they are still within the field of the conditioned mind. Whateverefforts he makes, or does not make, within that limited field, are really futile inthe deepest sense of that word. There may be a better decoration of the prison, morelight - more windows, better food - but it is still the prison of a particularculture.