On the how……..

In life one needs to perpetually question oneself about being and where one is in terms of one’s situation….where one is, what one does, where one is heading, how one is relating to others and most importantly to keep checking that goal of life! To be in the midst of the arena of the temporal one is always surrounded by vibes which challenges the self as to the what, and how of being.
It is equally important to have a goal in life so that one knows where one is heading. To do so takes away those aimless ways where one simply drifts along, not knowing or having a purpose and or moving about in the realm of the mundane hither and tither as per the perforce of the whims of the animate or inanimate elements. To have a vision of where one is heading means there is clarity about that objective which for the most part eludes one entangled in the ways of the world. The latter has a way of keeping one entrapped in its claws as thereby wandering around and about in ignorance. And yet this is precisely how a conditioned being is just whimsically drifting around and about. As such, one is simply a victim of the temporal with practically no vision. For sure, we referred in an earlier blog, borrowing Covey’s remark that the subject is like putting oneself in the hands of a pilot without a compass. Wonder how many would seek to board such a plane. In some ways this is how one is, without that vision of being where one is at the mercy of the temporal.
Life throws opportunities for us. It is incumbent that one does make a choice not based on a shrunken mode where the projected categories are of hate and frictions are verily imposed on others whilst placing oneself in a knowledge based on seeds of hatred and or violence. Naturally to have any such intention means there is a lack of being where one projects a truncated way which separates . Where there is separation, one is at the mercy of a way of the temporal which usually seeks to belittle the other.
To be sure, one becomes a victim of one’s choice, as the subject may only become that as per one’s vision and unless one discovers the way beyond boundaries, the subject will remains but a mere object re-perpetuating a way of being based on some negative saliencies of separation. The danger of adopting and exposing a way of separation means that one participates in a subtle form of violence.
Or it is verily incumbent on the subject to stop, pause and reflect, precisely to be able to come to terms with life as it is and or indeed seek a choice with intelligence and diligence. Often things are done in a haphazard way and or all our so-called choices are verily not choices per se but mere reactions to what is thrown about in life and the subject takes this regurgitation as being the be and end all of everything whereas a little reflection may indicate that one is victim of the temporal or the modes which dictates by being a mere pawn in the equation and yet one walks about as if the subject is in control whereas the contrary is the case in that these choices are pre-empted by that which is not within but without where essentially one has lost control.
Or we may say that one is back at the point restart only to discover that one is in the realm of the plane with a pilot minus a compass and not knowing where one is heading. The fact that one is in a not dissimilar situation is all too obvious as one heads in a frantic way on towards trying to navigate the self through existence. Someone has said we become what we choose and in a way that choice and or setting a goal is verily important. The imprudent easily will be misled along the way as one is no more than a follower and so as a reactionary one merely lives in the world created by others with the subject being a mere puppet. Things are done this way and not that way as if the subject is a mere empty vessel, being here or there just to be filled. The choice to be so is dictated by one’s consciousness of being. With a lack, one adopts a similar truncated objective.
The lack may be seen in that the subject runs from a similar choice to another, always an incomplete one since separation is there where someone else imposes on the self. In such a mode, reflection is abandoned with one becoming a victim of the other and where this is so, one is no more than a puppet being in the claw as of the other. As if we are not warned sufficiently from Bhagavad philosophy which clarifies the point that we all a fictive of the temporal modes and when add prejudices and similar bias to subjugate the other the fact of so called choice simply is non existent as one may have adopted some way, or any form of being based on some criterion where reflection is abandoned. It is incumbent to be aware that life is not simply about following and living as the whims of anyone. Where one fails to see the logistics of being it is best that one takes time and gets into the stop and pause mode which eventually may lead to taking stock rather than walking about vaulting an air of so called knowledge based on some separated way of being. The vulgar may retort it is a choice. That may well be but to choose to denigrate any other shows precisely a lack of being and to try in constantly pouring negativism in encounters, to be sure is not the way of one who is prudent. The point about being with others is to precisely keep taking note of the other not as someone to be put down whilst oneself is elevated on a pedestal but it is about moving away from the norm of separation towards a unity of being, for without a rapprochement there may never be a chance of togetherness. The vulgar though is more than happy living in the norm of hatred, friction and anger. The problem of choice of course is that one take the what is at facticity and what is not as a perforce of everything which is to be espoused and adhered.