Vachon Imagined

What we call racism—or any form of oppression—often begins as lived experience becoming fixed through memory.

In direct awareness, there is only:

thought arising.
memory arising.
emotion arising.
perception arising.

Even structures are experienced through this movement.

They are not separate from awareness.

They are patterns within it.

When we try to eliminate what arises in human experience, we can unknowingly turn it into something external and solid.

But much of what we resist is also moving inwardly as memory, interpretation, and emotion.

When perception splits in this way, blame and defense arise.

What is seen “out there” is also being held “in here.”

Seen clearly, even the impulse to fix or remove becomes part of awareness itself.

Not wrong.

Not separate.

Just movement.

From here, the question changes.

Not how to eliminate what arises,

but how to see without becoming bound.

Without judgment.

Without fixation.

In that clarity, experience becomes less rigid.

You can have any thought, any memory—but you do not cling to it.
Therefore, you are not fooled by it.

Through yourself, your memory, and your experience, which no one can fully know, touch, or name apart from you.

And in seeing yourself clearly, nothing becomes fixed or worshiped—only known and released.

Everything is permitted to arise. Nothing is denied.

And in that seeing, we return to awareness itself, where life is still moving, but nothing is held as final.