There is always a lack in the realm of the material. That one is here, immersed in a pool of subtle contradictions and surrounded by the whims of the latter is all obvious except by one who continues to seek transcendence through reflection. For all one’s thoughtfulness, a lack always emerges as one eventually crawls at aspects of that which lacks in being-ness. Or it may be observed that for all one’s scholarship and wisdom, there is a failure to apprehend and be there, here if you want as what emerges is a vision through that which is par excellence. The lack is apparent since one is immersed in that which changes. Or it is so easy to observe and perceive in the other yet that frailty is not seen within oneself.
The call is to look at the self that one is as it is always a question of the other who is seen and viewed as the problem and yet one may miss that finesse of being since it is far too difficult to perceive the lack within oneself as there is a tendency to think that the ‘me’ of oneself is the ever green hero/heroine and add to this a mistaken view that all one is no more than a substance bereft of any real comprehension of what really needs doing and or what again really needs not doing and perhaps as importantly how to get things moving in the arena of the temporal.
A walking kind of a contradiction where it is verily not easily noticeable within the self that one is but that is observable in the other.There is almost a feeling that the savant pretends to know and may never accepts his lack of being as after all the latter is the observer and always deciphers that veil. The subject fails to see that he too is part of that lack and indeed in that whirlpool of the mundane from which it is as almost impossible to shrug free of.The way of materialism verily poses a challenge to the subject who must take note of or else the latter too is no more or less than the other always being subjected to the ways of the mundane. In some ways it may not be others in spite of all one’s scholarship there is a tendency to be at that point of pride without quite understand how it surfaced as after all one tends to measure one’s actions diligently.
Just as much it is that easy to detect lagging behind in others, or equally easy to see it all within ,the exterior or outer. The problem emerges when the call is to put the self under scrutiny and or consider the innermost of one’s being where it is always possible to justify all sorts of confusions, lack, or aspects which one may so swiftly and aptly be placed under scrutiny. Or it seems that it is so easily to detect that lack in the other or in outside but try checking within the self or in the inner, there may be some questionable transparency since after all what may be put to question is verily that self that one is….something which may not or never be done.
To be sure, it is the other and always about the other. And about the exterior where one is on safe ground and not questioning that self which one is. What is being explored herewith is precisely the question of inwards looking and at the self that one is. It is not about reactive actions but verily proactive ones where one searches to merge out of that dense forest of delusion, where there is no need to run higher and tighter but faces the tune as is revealed. A kind of perceiving what one really is rather than what one is not. The exercises forces one to move away from that mode of pretence towards a reality as encountered without prejudice. In one’s bias mode, it is not that easy to look within whilst things appear so vivid in the not me, with an almost reluctance at one self where there is a impertinence as if oneself may be above and beyond that unto which one is revealed. The call is about probing into the self that one is and explore one’s own frailty and to be sure almost a very difficult exercise to be commenced given that one places there self above such modes and or it boils down to being unable to see that impotence lack, cause of misery to oneself and of being so arrogant that one does never see that aspects of mundaneness in the self, as if one is beyond any reproach.
Suddenly one notices there is a problem to be resolved not in the other but the self. What does one do? Can one just be without any lack? Or is lack part of the main problem in the world where one is coerced unto adopting a norm almost unknowingly and fall prey to the realm of the mundane and the material and its ways which the self may easily notices in the exterior but try doing the same thing in the inner within oneself and suddenly either one fails to apprehend it as if one knows but a knowledge bound up and which clearly operates within a set boundary where equally the subject is as much a victim of that in which one is bound up with. How does one go about shrugging free of that particular inherent problem of inner prejudice which causes suffering not willingly but non knowingly where opportunities may be denied to others. All a question of failure to adopt for instance both perhaps a tolerance and or believing that one already knows. Perhaps our comrade does not quite understand that any operation within the realm of the material comes with a warning at all times. Or it is as prudent to always take heed of the Socratic dictum ‘ I know not.’ actually or really rather than as an intellectual exercise; in which case the subject will never have a preconceived notion of anything about the realm in which we are entangled.Tolerance makes us take that attitude of being humble and always reaching out rather than posing as a this, that and the other where what then emerges is veil of conflicts and contradictions so easily noticeable in the other but quite in the self that one is.
The point herewith is may one really reflect and or clearly adopting a sensible approach at reaching out via a fusion of the exterior and the inner. May one really functions at the level of transcendence in a material world? If so, how to be. Who knows?