One resides in the realm of the exterior. Around and about is a dense forest of delusion, a maze which one has to makes sense of. At every step there is difficulty and one may easily fall prey to that which is revealed as it appears.
In this entanglement even such perceptions are marred by a lack of clarity as to the what is, this is mostly wrapped up in a veil of creed or other salience which has polluted one’s being making a clear vision almost not possible because what is carried from moment to moment is the confused mind which dictates on the question of both the seen and then how to be. What is perceived is not quite objective. It may never be as the mind often comes in and acts an adjudicator when it takes over: in a way becomes that which guides us.
With that being the issue, one finds it almost a per impossible to break free as most of the time we live in the realm as per the diktat of the mental which has taken precedence. The latter in its debased inconsistent form moves about as per the modes of material nature characterised by forms of ignorance, passion and goodness.
Where the first form is dominant one simply is static, sit stagnate and lives at best in a reactionary mode where the process is no less that of being dull or a mere question of working, eating, mating and enjoying…… As one moves on towards the passionate stance, there is some movement towards another form of being which is inclusive of the ignoramus mode plus a little reaching out characteristic of a way of being based on ideas of separatism where divisions by groups are apparent. One who is conditioned may involve in activities where engagement in life process is seen as a way to justify the self in a form of belonging to life in the form of divisiveness. Division is all about and around us. Some even partakes in a crusade of making gains at the expense of others. Around us …..from the social to the political as well as the cultural, education and recreational are so framed. In this modal system we are called upon to take sides or be part of something….this may start from the moment we were thrown in the world. We belonged to a family, a group, a nation, a religion, a cultural or sub-cultural group or a political party. Most of us are so framed in a surrender mode at this level…. And thus caught at a level of the conditioned mind which is not quite free but dependent on its reaction to what is perceived within that veil. The veil in a way often provides a motivation from some to be so stuck and keep at maintaining this form of separatism.
Beyond and above is the other mode of goodness where some may rise above and beyond the confines of a polluted mind towards reaching out to others. In that goodness mode there may be some aspects of reaching out beyond the divisions where one sees the others about as not a threat but a more of what may add richness. That compassionate mode sees beyond the veil of the conditioned state. Although still within the framework of the mental yet is not in negative modes of separatism… rather there is a positive which emerges from such a mind as it perceives the world arena with a more inspiring vision. It may still function and conforms within the aspects of separatism but none the less appreciate the world in its grandeur and thereby not degrading others by proclaiming a higher status for the ego- self; whilst throwing about garbage towards others through being condescending which is done by those in a state of negativism mode.
A vision within the mode of goodness is still within the realm of the mental operational in which the mind may not be quite free but all the same is not as crude due to its positiveness. Therefore, a noble cause may be argued for where no other is barred unlike the counterpart of the ignorance/ passionate forms where all is proclaimed at maintaining separatism and divisions often causes arrogance, hatred and wrath.
The goodness form is characterised by authentic forms where there is appreciation regardless of one’s in situation. It is a more inclusive strategy of seeing others or very other is respected for simply revealing themselves. No divisions but an extension of the self to every other…… where one is not brutalised or scandalised for being who they are. In practice there may also be some mixed operation modes.
And further and above and beyond the modes of the humanoids are yet another mode which reaches out to every other regardless of their specie. This pure goodness form transcends not only humanoids barrier but that of specie too. In that mode one not extends the self just towards the cats and the dogs or similar domesticated animals but the compassion given to every other whether they present themselves as sheep, goats, cows or chicken or wild life at large inclusive of a slug or an ant. It is being togetherness of one and all. In this form of meditative state, there can be no separatism full stop.
It is clear as we may only be that which we are exposed to. Or develop a relationship with whom we may encounter. Reflection is a way of transcending the known or the madness of being confined at the parochial level. How may one move onwards towards non separatism or a culture of divisiveness in which we are thrown at the dawn of existence. To realise that this may be possible is to have awakened from a crude and brutal form of being. To be sure one may only do so if she/he sees the sense of this all but if governed by pettiness and divisions there may only be one way to be that of withdrawal into the false ego where the latter wishes to be at a separatist mode which may never be transcended as arrogance and conceit remains the way to be.
On the horizon one may have visions of the transcendent which not only makes one see that we are not, nay never in separation but a more positive way of being. In that non- separateness lies a non-material vision and in that kind of meditation lies ahead a way to be not caught up/entangled in the ways of the known.