Rajiv
Nov 1, 2008
Book Reports / This is a story about someone I knew [15]
The concept I wanted to put across was not difficult and neither abstract. The difficulty was in our having looked at the world so much in a particular way that this way of looking at events just appears hard to do.
Yet this is really all there is to it. You have to start putting things in this order and the rest comes out on its own. And thats the whole issue. We are pulled to the old way of looking at things even though it reduces us to the nature of the objects.
Here are the main points of difference. Life is happening with us all. At all times. Something is happening with you, ignore this particular action of reading, but other than that, regard a while some things occuping your mind. The paradigm here is that, it is so, and just so because beyond you, there exists an intelligence which is working upon some residual with which you identify as your identity.
You are powerless to act at all. You refute that immediately, but the point is that the motive to act as you planned to do right now is mere consequence. In that sense everything is predictable. Our great difficulty in accepting this as a truer way of thinking is merely because we cannot get hold of this residual which we consider our identity. And that is because it is our mind itself. We, as we are, see it as our mind. See there is no seeing here.
So it is about accepting an intelligence at work and all the world as you experience it, merely its own actions. You feel yourself independent to make decisions, and then you see those decisions become actions, but there is another way to see that. Every action you percieve, yours or otherwise has a silmutaneous reflection in a subtler realm, we do see that, because we apprehend that world with our mind. So what you think as your decision to act was this thought forming in the mental space, whatever exists as you grabbed it, the action followed and you thought it is of your making.
Can we then just sit back and do nothing? That would be ideal only be prepared to not do anything at all then. When you decide not to do anything, something that will happen as consequence you can already see. What you do not see is that you truly exist, past that residual which works its way into the world. It will take your breath away, literally, as the you that is beyond the one you're identifying with begins to emerge. But then thats what its all about.
So here it is the entire explaination, and the 'other' view-point of the world.
The concept I wanted to put across was not difficult and neither abstract. The difficulty was in our having looked at the world so much in a particular way that this way of looking at events just appears hard to do.
Yet this is really all there is to it. You have to start putting things in this order and the rest comes out on its own. And thats the whole issue. We are pulled to the old way of looking at things even though it reduces us to the nature of the objects.
Here are the main points of difference. Life is happening with us all. At all times. Something is happening with you, ignore this particular action of reading, but other than that, regard a while some things occuping your mind. The paradigm here is that, it is so, and just so because beyond you, there exists an intelligence which is working upon some residual with which you identify as your identity.
You are powerless to act at all. You refute that immediately, but the point is that the motive to act as you planned to do right now is mere consequence. In that sense everything is predictable. Our great difficulty in accepting this as a truer way of thinking is merely because we cannot get hold of this residual which we consider our identity. And that is because it is our mind itself. We, as we are, see it as our mind. See there is no seeing here.
So it is about accepting an intelligence at work and all the world as you experience it, merely its own actions. You feel yourself independent to make decisions, and then you see those decisions become actions, but there is another way to see that. Every action you percieve, yours or otherwise has a silmutaneous reflection in a subtler realm, we do see that, because we apprehend that world with our mind. So what you think as your decision to act was this thought forming in the mental space, whatever exists as you grabbed it, the action followed and you thought it is of your making.
Can we then just sit back and do nothing? That would be ideal only be prepared to not do anything at all then. When you decide not to do anything, something that will happen as consequence you can already see. What you do not see is that you truly exist, past that residual which works its way into the world. It will take your breath away, literally, as the you that is beyond the one you're identifying with begins to emerge. But then thats what its all about.
So here it is the entire explaination, and the 'other' view-point of the world.