The mind is like an antenna. If you keep it busy with emitting stuff, it can rarely receive a transmission back. Sometimes it forms a closed loop of questioning and inter-questioning, because the mind has this tendency to not allow anything other than itself to communicate back. After the mind is sufficiently satisfied, though, it will invariably seek out other minds (the receivers of which are located in the brain-hearts of other individuals), and a standoff will take place - for this is the only way for a closed mind to become sufficiently challenged by the universe, whose messages the closed mind didnt allow to be received. This form of growth is slow, often adversarial, because when an other mind engages us and our beliefs, or mental maps, it is inevitably a cognitive war which tests our limits and threatens our carefully cultivated self-identity (which, remember, formed only because we have decided to turn deaf to the incoming signals of the universe). We may score several hits against the other persons mind-views, they will inevitably score some back, and what we have is a dialectic of experiential self-and-other discovery via adversity, or battle. If we could only, then, only temporarily, silence out self-spiraling, whirring mind and allow it some receptiveness, some substantial listening time, to the unspoken, to the unverbalized, to the myriads of images that come through, to the universe that launches softly, persistently in communicating back... Maybe much of the adversarial mental skirmishes would be avoided, and we will be sent the subliminal essence of the messages that we so intuitively seek, but displace and disorder by ways of extreme mental engagement. Such a mind is a meditative one, a contemplative mind, a mind open to receiving and inquiring messages to the unseen, but felt, or perceived senders that come either from the possibly empty universe (but, how can it send messages back if it is void?), so we can engage in a dialogue, one on one, between being (us) and existence (or spacetime, or time, and space, or whatever it is out there). Such a mind is well informed that other minds will engage it with isolated, enclosed, carefully delineated and thus, incomplete versions of reality. Hence, such a mind would not rush to engage, prove, or even defend against mental aggression against itself. Nature abhors a vacuum - receptiveness invites invasion. Other minds, sensing a void, will rush to fill it. Other meditative minds, though, will be able to discern a mind free of adversarial ambition, and would leave the mind in its productive receptiveness without challenging it to prove, engage, or win arguments. What is internally known suffers no impulse to be externally validated. It simply is, until it receives the insight that it is no more. Only an unstructured, intuitive mind would have no problems with such a transition. Structured, hardened minds would rail against it until other minds engage them and prove them the already transmitted subliminal point. This is the way life develops. It always mails you. It mails everyone. Not listening to its messages produces conflict, both inner and outer. Not everyone listens, though, and thew divide in the human being is created by the temptations of its partially listening self and anothers partially unlistening (or deaf) self. This pulls us to the possibility that perhaps, success can be won through conflict, and not listening. The price of such success is, though, a merciless task, both on self and the other. The other will invariably rebel, the inbox will get spammed with messages from the universe, and eventually, things will balance themselves out, if need be, forcefully. And then, we are back to square one, checking the messages in our cosmic inbox, wondering why why didnt listen sooner. Guilt, shame, and inner-conflict appear again. But, there is no need for this, because turning deaf to the cosmos is also a way of the cosmos winning back our commitment to listening. If we only would... All is well. All is as it should be. Time is an infinite circle what presents us with the paradox of understanding it both as the notion that we have no time, but also with the notion that we have infinite amounts of time. Thus, we are always presented with a choice. The trick is remembering that we indeed, have a choice, that the choice is always there. The challenge of remembering we have a choice is the motor of growth and progress. Forgetting we have a choice traps us into the closed loop of the mind, which is conditioned by what we perceive incompletely to be true. Remembering we have a choice allows us to not take that (oh so tempting) ride again. And walking away in freedom. Until the next challenge. But now, we possess the dim memory of a choice. Such is the way of the emerging consciousness and freedom of will. It needs tests, challenges to crystallize itself. To make its own worth concrete, clear and known. Otherwise, it sinks into non-awareness, an autopilot guided by previous decisions, and it spins forever, repeating the same cycle, until an inner or an external force disturbs us. Mercy be, often times, the cosmos disallows this, and punches us off balance, out of the self-repeating, self-stagnating cycle. Freedom can only be known, and sustained, by realizing ones own non-freedom. Sleep is not welcome here.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:27:14 +0000
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