Is desiring not a necessary evil? AND Is observing/ seeing sufficient without further actions?
Example 1: Consider a rope lying on a street. The mind fears it if the mind assumes this rope to be a snake. (This is a conventional example for illusion / Maya) Will it be sufficient to go closer to the object and observe if it is rope or snake? Once observed and understood that it is a rope, will any action be required for realisation?
Example 2: When I hit someone, does the action consume a part of my energy? (me, as a physical being in this body-mind) Yes it does, the action is nothing but a part of my energy.
Subtler: Before hitting someone, the anger that takes me over also should be a part of my own energy, cannot be something induced from outside. A part of my energy has afterall been used for anger. Is it the same case with 'Fear' as well? Is my fear also a part of me? It is all me and my energy in different forms.
Even Subtler: I am asleep and am dreaming. Where does the energy to make up the dream come from? The dream is being played in my mind (probably unconcious mind) but it is still a part of me. I supply energy to it.
When in dream we are so involved in the dream that we consider it to be a matter of life and death. We sometimes get scared in the dream - the effect of which is also seen on the body (say, sweating) ! All the dreams have features that, if observed while dreaming, hint us towards understanding that it is a dream. [Many of us have been through this experience. It is now also possible, using cognitive science methods, to identify reality and dream state :).. these methods involve continuous observation !]
Is 'knowing that this is a dream' sufficient to come out of it? Or would we still need some action?In other words, Once we are awake do we still need to take any action to get rid of the desires that we had in the dream?
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Saturday, 24 October 2009
Monday, 12 October 2009
Funda’spiritual’ quantities
Physical world cannot understand itself. For it be understood, a subtler entity that can perceive physical representation is required.
The entity humans use to understnad it is Mind. With mind, human being has been able to break down physical reality (of the known 4 dimensional world) into perceivable quantities. As understood ‘mentally’; Hence, funda’mental’ (at a foundation level what we understand mentally is fundamental) .
Length, mass and time are the fundamental measures of physical world.
Mental world cannot experience itself. For it to be experienced, a subtler entity that can experience mental perceptivity is required.
This entity is the spiritual entity. So, what are the funda’spiritual’ measures of the mental world?
Length mass and time, now in mental terms, form the set of fundaspiritual quantities of mind. The mind is made up of thoughts. So the mental length is the distance between oneself and the object of one’s thought. Mass is the number of thoughts occurring at an instant. Time is the distance between reality and thought world. Reality is being in present and thought being either in future or in past.
As length mass and time come to zero, the physical world collapses into an atom, as during the beginning of the universe!, where energy wraps itself into itself and claims back all the nature spread out, back into nothingness. As the mental length, mass and time tend to zero, the individual allows ones ideas and dreams collapse into one’s own self leaving no trace of the mind but an experience of void.
In this state: the distance being zero, the subject is but the object of thought. If the distance is maintained as zero, the object has to be constant and hence mass or number of thoughts collapse to a unity. We still have a thought, which is a gap between self and mind. The single thought too disappears as time becomes zero.
Hence, most spiritual practices boil down to the message ‘be still, here and now’.
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The entity humans use to understnad it is Mind. With mind, human being has been able to break down physical reality (of the known 4 dimensional world) into perceivable quantities. As understood ‘mentally’; Hence, funda’mental’ (at a foundation level what we understand mentally is fundamental) .
Length, mass and time are the fundamental measures of physical world.
Mental world cannot experience itself. For it to be experienced, a subtler entity that can experience mental perceptivity is required.
This entity is the spiritual entity. So, what are the funda’spiritual’ measures of the mental world?
Length mass and time, now in mental terms, form the set of fundaspiritual quantities of mind. The mind is made up of thoughts. So the mental length is the distance between oneself and the object of one’s thought. Mass is the number of thoughts occurring at an instant. Time is the distance between reality and thought world. Reality is being in present and thought being either in future or in past.
As length mass and time come to zero, the physical world collapses into an atom, as during the beginning of the universe!, where energy wraps itself into itself and claims back all the nature spread out, back into nothingness. As the mental length, mass and time tend to zero, the individual allows ones ideas and dreams collapse into one’s own self leaving no trace of the mind but an experience of void.
In this state: the distance being zero, the subject is but the object of thought. If the distance is maintained as zero, the object has to be constant and hence mass or number of thoughts collapse to a unity. We still have a thought, which is a gap between self and mind. The single thought too disappears as time becomes zero.
Hence, most spiritual practices boil down to the message ‘be still, here and now’.
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Saturday, 12 September 2009
Slow is fast !
What space does to size is what speed of mind does to speed of action. Slower the mind gets closer we get to reality and have better understanding of reality; hence move faster in it.
Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. - John De Paola
As we slow down, we get liberated of the burden of doing, instead, things start happening for us. A thinking trap is to slow down with an intention to see things move fast. Unfortunately, nature is smarter than we can be and returns such pretentious acts with ‘the law of reverse effect’.
Just ‘slow down’, for its own sake. It is a beautiful experience to live the entire moment in present, to extract the juice of life from one moment at a time; to live it in its completeness. It is strange but as we slow down in the mind the time slows down with us.
Just s l o w d o w n.
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Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. - John De Paola
As we slow down, we get liberated of the burden of doing, instead, things start happening for us. A thinking trap is to slow down with an intention to see things move fast. Unfortunately, nature is smarter than we can be and returns such pretentious acts with ‘the law of reverse effect’.
Just ‘slow down’, for its own sake. It is a beautiful experience to live the entire moment in present, to extract the juice of life from one moment at a time; to live it in its completeness. It is strange but as we slow down in the mind the time slows down with us.
Just s l o w d o w n.
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Thursday, 3 September 2009
Heart-Break, Head-Brake !
The expectation for future, usually built over time, seems the only logical outcome of the present set of events to the perception-blinded mind. The dimension of choice, that every human has a right to exercise, keeps rearranging the construct of future. This dynamic path could be, at times, beyond comprehension due to the vast and diverse possibilities of choices available. The appearance of reality tears apart the expectation that the mind is attached to, thus, resulting in a confused state and leaving a huge pile of uncertainty.
Disillusionment of an image, usually known as a heart-break, seems to be a result of concepts built in the head; The effect on the emotional center must be just a result and not the cause.
The ancient eastern mysticism has regarded ‘not feeding the mind with anticipation’ as a crucial non-action to settle in the state of equanimity.
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Disillusionment of an image, usually known as a heart-break, seems to be a result of concepts built in the head; The effect on the emotional center must be just a result and not the cause.
The ancient eastern mysticism has regarded ‘not feeding the mind with anticipation’ as a crucial non-action to settle in the state of equanimity.
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Friday, 7 August 2009
Is self-trust an illusion?
Instinct must be stronger than even our mental conviction of self-trust.
Ever checked the reflex of eyelid on trying to touch our eyeball with our own finger !
Probably both belong to different faculties. The eye reflex belongs to the instinct handled by our subconcious mind; The meaning, value and conviction of self-trust belongs to the logical faculty, Mind.
Instinct, thus seems to work beyond logic. It just does its job without any judgements, analysis or preconceived notions.
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Ever checked the reflex of eyelid on trying to touch our eyeball with our own finger !
Probably both belong to different faculties. The eye reflex belongs to the instinct handled by our subconcious mind; The meaning, value and conviction of self-trust belongs to the logical faculty, Mind.
Instinct, thus seems to work beyond logic. It just does its job without any judgements, analysis or preconceived notions.
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Thursday, 6 August 2009
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