The way of the spurious……..

In the silent of the mind, one may dream about being in an authentic form rather than submerged in the vulgar ways of the world. The latter subjugate us into a particular way of being often based on a truncated form on aspects of non perception or the what is. It has at the outset an inbuilt superiority which is taken from the crude materialism where it is all about me and the other and the others with a fierce competition at the outset. Or it is all about outdoing of the other or others…. by whichever means necessary.
There is always a movement towards trying to be better than the other and or engage in living as per a certain way which ignores a more comprehensive way and or try to put bigotry at the fore even at the cost of trampling on the other. There are lots of structures around and about which claims that the way of life needs be as what they propose. The naïve adherent gets ensnared into a particular form which in some ways reflects one’s being. One who is diligent does not simply whimsically adopt and accept a way of being based on emotion or as Srila Prabhupada has warned… “Religion without philosophy is sentimentalism and sometimes fanaticism.”
A way of life which ignores some other, any other needs be questioned as it is based on frivolity or speculative mind. Where this happens, some other is excluded due to the whims or how one sees things. To be sure it all about being sensitive to not only any other but every other. Where there is such a lack, there may never be a a genuine proposition.
The test is not about whether an adherent is seen to be doing this that and the other as a way of fulfilling a contract as per a show of a ritual which is accepted and appreciated and then fall down to a depth of ignorance of being where one later easily tramples on some other any other about us but a clear question of whether one has really comprehended on the why of one’s engagement in something or anything.
Meditation is not simply about closing eyes and retiring from the what which unfolds about us. The moment one does so, all sorts of nonsense emerges in the mind and the subject becomes no more than an object being carried over in thoughts which dictates of how one should be. Unless the person at the outset discovers a clear way of being which is non exclusive one is always a victim of the temporal. With this being so, the subject seeks to adopt a way of being which further encloses oneself in a certain way.
By so doing, one remains fix as per a certain agenda of being where all is dictated by superfluous materialism. It is not only a question of transiting towards the non material. It is verily paramount that the subject in many ways wise up to being less what happens is that attraction for the ways of the world is always there where one is englobed in a way which keeps subjugating the self. “ Religion is the opium of the masses” said Karl Marx and in many ways this reflect the fact that every other seek that which may not be. A way of life based on a form which one adopts and so feels is the be and end of everything.
The problem with such a view it lacks a disregard for other and others regardless of specie one needs to add. The test is not that one is engaged in a ritual of some or any form. It is verily about whether one is a expert at finding out and deciphering those innuendos which makes one stop , pause and reflect or engage in a ways which puts any other at risk or belittle the other. An opium indeed have no regard for the other. One is entangled in a groove of being where all that matters is verily that false ego or bodily self in which one is trapped where nothing matters but oneself.
An arrogance of being governed by the principle that one knows or that one is better than any other where the not me is either ignored, pushed aside and later on despised. All the time , emerges that bossy-self who knows and creating a false impression about the subject in that it is way above and beyond others or let’s say it is all a struggle just to try to impress upon the others than one is of a different calibre. It is about trying to be what one is not. In the process, more pains come to oneself as one lacks not only expertise but also in every aspects of authenticity of being since one is simply in bad faith as Sartre may remark. Like the chef who feels that every other needs to be subjugated to oneself or there is verily a poor apprehension of life about us. It is only by realising that one is no more or else than any other.
It is never a question of belittling others. To do so would mean that the effect of karma will eventually catch up. To be expert is precisely to understand one’s in situation in life not as a superior or inferior but as an equal. One is not caught up in the categories of the mundane where one may never perceive not only what needs doing but also what needs be refrained from as well as being sensitive to the other. That other as is revealed whether as a person, an animal, wild life however minuscule it may be.
Not to have this perception means that one is no more than a brute who feels that one have licence to do as one pleases. The sad story of the world is that there is a lack of reflection as everything is based on copy cat style of life where one adopts and run after the mundane or some form which is exclusive to a group which merely reinforces or denies being to some other. Unless one has a sense of communism in its transcendental form not merely intellectually but actually….. and or see that each one is a lack, problem will continue. Or it is a question indeed of being a life specialist…. And moving away from trampling on any other whether actually, verbally or otherwise whilst causing despair to any other…one will be immersed in ignoramus in spite of trying to be what one is not…