Doing this and not the other. Choosing a certain way to be. All in the mind. The conclusive element is already there. A question of seeing and witnessing but not denying. In denial one may think there may be escape. Wittgenstein already observed that in many ways we are like the falling leaf of a tree … with its course already set: from this one may observe that the leaf is in the illusion and sometime saying, I fall this way; sometimes I fall the other way but a failure to apprehend that there is a guaranteed failure from the moment the course has started from its leaving the branch connected to the tree.
There is adjustment made here and there. One revels in trying to make the process that we go through as being the be and end of it all. Is there a chance of witnessing the whole rather than a mere part? Can one actually witness that grandeur of life beyond and above? And be contended with what one has? Is it possible to lead a simple life? What is a simple life? Is it one that does not prey on others? Is it one that does not make any demand but simply be there and just witness?
Or is it one where the mind in its operation mode always attempt to trample on the other. What right does one have to do so? At the point of severance and being thrown one is all equal: The rest is madness, pure delusion and not seeing the whole but caught up in the whim of the mental. My mental being prevents me from moving onwards and forwards.
It is an undeniable error that one is alone. Only in that aloneness may want discover life as it is. Or we may say that it is never up to the other to constantly disrupt the move of one who needs to seek and discover through meditative process a way out of the maze.
The maze is there. Caught up one brutally awoke and saw the arena as is revealed. To search and to discover needs be commended rather than trying to be imposed. To expose is much better than to impose: In the latter mode there is mostly an element of trying to control in operation with the mind thinking and thinking as its wants to build a boundary around a certain way of being base on the seen, the fragment aspect.
In the non wholistic way of being or separatist format one thus develops a relationship, then a friendship, a family, later on a group and or the usual search for belonging to a certain approach. Tribalism then creeps in with the mind in operation. And the point of it all is simply to seek at seeing life through a veil.
The acceptance of a veil of being is that the other may be denied space to be which brings in protest through attempts of moving onwards and discarding the root of one’s being. The beauty of life lies not in a voracious attempt at not witnessing multi approach but not seeing a clear pattern as clearly and distinctly where the non-mental or intelligence takes over.
The mental sees from partiality whilst the intelligence witnesses the whole. It is therefore a question of turning inwards/fine tuning with the self and or towards making or allowing the latter to becomes the compass of one’s state of being. In doing so one moves away from a crude attempt at denying any other space to be and lead an existence. The question after all is not simply being about me and me and me or what is me-ism but rather an aspect of reaching out where a simple living emerges.
In such a simplicity there is no mental arrogance or a lust or anger or a tribal form of being but of real and actual opening up to another form from that of attempting to be just at the helm. Rather there is no helm. One is all in the same boat and trying to navigate and find a way. The misery of life emerges only in a failure of apprehension where the mind which is based on a partial or subjective approach is caught up time and time again in a whirl of tempest through its own doing. Intelligence at least prickle the self towards an awakening where one is able to see and or act not in a futile mode as per the diktat of a mind on impulse but more in a proactive way where one may begin to appreciate that even oneself is a victim.
Or let us observe that we are all in this maze just attempting to figure a way out if at all…..hence the struggle for existence! Shall I turn hither or tither? Is the question simply about seeking a way out of just being? Or does it just mean to be so and appreciate and a question of reaching out without any demand to just be?
In silent mode of meditation perhaps one may come to terms with that maze into which we have been thrown into. And perhaps with some possibility to appreciate the ego self that we are instead of blindly being a victim of the known or of the false ego for in the latter comes pride, falsity and control whilst in the former one rises above and beyond to extend that hand of comradeship unto the other and of reaching out.
It is not simply about winning and loosing but somehow the idea of participating in the mode of an authentic way where there is appreciation of every other regardless of their station in life. Tulsidasa whilst writing the Ramcharitmanasa or Ramayana in Hindi indeed felt the necessity to acknowledge each and everyone including the crude and the vulgar. To reach that level of appreciation requires indeed a special qualification that of simply being there rather than being caught up in one’s false ego with its self interest based on inbuilt barriers.
There is no need to complicate life issues. It is just a question of being and not that of imposing as hinted earlier…..