Summation

On Spiritual Awakening

Spiritual awakening is proportional to the extent and intensity of suffering.

It comes and goes, and then comes back, much like when we wake up from sleep in the morning..


On loss & dealing with loss

Loss of any type is difficult to handle. But the suffering & fear caused by losses and tragedies - this suffering slowly reduces with time WITHOUT ANY RATIONAL REASON.

Acceptance of things as they are sets in slowly, but surely. AUTOMATICALLY.

The past, the morbid nature of human life, the morbid nature of the present moment - with acceptance of these, comes freedom from fear of the future.

Whatever form the future will take, it's all fine - this feeling grows slowly.

Philippians 4:7: And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds....


On the highest stage of Awakening, i.e. Enlightenment

The Buddhas mentioned in various texts have reportedly laughed when they have awakened. Not a cynical, bitter laugh but a laugh of amusement combined with a feeling of perfect safety, empowerment and well being.

On Death
You are alive in this moment.

A beautiful song, by the beautiful Fairuz (Fairouz), lebanese singer Nouhad Wadi Haddad.

Just like the Ocean...

An Assyrian clay tablet discovered recently reveals that 4000 years back, people were worried about protecting their loved ones, money, property from rogues and brutal government officials.

A look at history, and 1000 years back, people were worried about the same. All cultures. All socio economic levels.

500 years back - same.

50 years back - same.

Today - same.

There can be no yard stick of progress except quality of life. And on this scale, human progress is non existent.

I've been pondering theories on randomness for a couple of months now...

The basic essence of these theories is that there is no net pattern, no net direction to human life. The patterns, the net movements we see in our environment are nothing but our own imagination.

Life's flow is nothing but random interplay between living trajectories IN THE CURRENT MOMENT......no one trajectory can win the battle.

That life flows in no particular direction. All that rises, falls. All that begins, ends. The day will always melt into darkness. Life will always melt into death.

All of our achievements, struggles, insights, wisdom will melt into nothingness one day.

So, struggling in any particular direction, wanting to gravitate towards some 'meaning', working towards some 'higher goal'...it's all contrary to the random nature of reality...all such plans will therefore lead to nothing but frustration.

Maybe there is some truth to the statement that a human's life is like a leaf blowing in the wind...tiny, inconsequential, temporary flight, in an infinite, incomprehensible cosmos..

Like the ocean..no net movement, no direction...just this moment..
Like the clouds in the sky...no net movement...just this moment...

Darkness and light coexist.
Loss and profit coexist.
The continuous interplay between opposites gives life its definition
The dance between light and shadow gives life its beauty
If only light existed, all would be dark.
There would be no form, no structure.

Just like all colours emerge from white light
Opposites emerge from the same source





Ocean image ctsy Peripateticously

Maya of the Mind

Watch the mind as it tries, in every moment, to co-opt experience by translating it into a story. It tries to draw us away from experience into a mental world that simulates experience. It tries to draw us into an imagined story about the experience. If it succeeds, that story becomes our experience. - Gina Lake.

The mind, it appears, is our biggest enemy. We are hard coded to get fooled easily and there is no limit to the nature, depth and complexity of the illusion that may form in the mind.

As per my understanding of Advaita Vedanta, the biggest illusion could be that events of the human world flow chronologically and are connected by cause and effect.

But how true is this concept - only moments of transcendence of mundane reality could reveal to us.

I don't know if it is true.....

BUT

Have you ever, in your life, looked at something, and found yourself saying...'TIMELESS' or 'AMAZING' or 'WOW'...and found the surroundings dissolving...

Those are, technically speaking, moments of transcendence of human life.

Such temporary transcendence is also known as "Satori". Beautiful things, beautiful concepts, beautiful music, beautiful places, little children, cute puppies, such things can push us into "Satori".

Each experience with Satori is unique. It's like Tea. No two cups of tea can be the same.

Why I am talking of 'Satori' is --- in the moment of 'Satori'...the non chronological nature of the flow of events in the human world could hit you. As per the texts...

PART - II
Carl Jung suggests that memory is merely a dance of archetypes in the transcendental NOW. Everything - the past, the present, and the 'future' - it is all unfolding simultaneously in the transcendental NOW.

Moments of "Satori" could give us a glimpse of this timeless reality. As mentioned previously.

Illusions

The green and the blue spirals are the same colour.