Material life is a licence to do as one pleases particularly where there are no restraints at the checking the demands of the senses. A question of fulfilment of the latter at all times since one is always at liberty to move along with full force in that forest of delusion where it is common to think that it is all about pleasures to the exclusion of the pain.
The truth is that it may never be so as one merely momentarily or let’s say for a short while that the effects of enjoyment and or being in fun materialise within one’s life. Sure, there are preparations towards it and even where one is enjoying a non -stop enjoyment also has its reverse in that there is always some other non- pleasure arising. Or that is the nature of life as it is. Ask anyone and the answer would probably be that we are on the move towards seeking and being wholly immersed in activities about how to enjoy or seek happiness unlimited.
Part of the problem is that material life always keeps us in check. One has to make choices and whilst one does so likewise follow consequences: In living ‘freely’ without any constraints, the subject comes across other restraints some legal and others moral which one adheres by without question as is expected to co-exist within a society. The argument is that one should always live freely with little constraints as possible taking account of what was stated in the previous sentence. In this sense life is a choice: a choice to be and to express within the norms of society and being able to do what life of the world has exposed us to. The bodily self that one is makes us takes strides towards fulfilling its obligations and demands made upon it to seek, seek and continually seek that which is most palatable within the obvious constraints. Sure, others pursue also a route beyond the boundaries which often create undue problems. The choices that we have about us are always there. It is all about being wise and prudent!
In this sense, to not choose also is an act of choosing as one may prefer to keep the status quo whilst doing nothing. We are in a way cornered to be. In not choosing, one may be deemed to be in the mode of ignorance as one simply is inert and not being involved.
It is also a question of being proactive and creative and that demands at least one is in involved and being there and participate. Ambiguously, the call is be for the not to be option for one is out of question except when surrendering to bad faith. The problem also is with surrendering of the self in the entanglement of desires and sure with it comes anger, lust, hatred and so with potential negative desires one remains overwhelmed and at the mercy of the modes or a reactionary approach and once takes this as a way forward, a vicious circle emerges where all that happens is that we are checked!
To be ‘in check’ means that one is a victim, indeed a victim of the circumstance nay the mundane of the material form. Attempt to get out of it using its own ways and modes and one would fell flat and back again in the dungeons from where relief is being sought from.
Again, it is towards another form that one needs to turn to where there is no transparency of the negative forms which subjugate us in submission. To be sure will be the cry from the naïve will be is there such a thing as the non-material? ….in an age of reason where seeing is believing or where matters are always put to test for verification!
The gist of the transcendental way from a non-material perspective is to move onto the realm of purity of heart for in so doing one moves away from the fire of material existence. In such a movement one is proactive for a start and thereby one attempts to comprehend such a system rather than trying to justify one’s reactions within this. Or an alertness is called upon at all times! Or one may be also subjected to the modes of the material forms which always circled about.
The mind is usually that usually takes the rein of the self and acts as a guide as what one does but equally associated with the mind is the heart or let’s us say the weakness of the heart or more precisely, a non-friendly mind is similar to the latter as it also may lead to one’s downfall in making wrong choices, and on choices to be sure depends on how one should be or the question of how to be which is fundamental to one’s being. A weak mind always deters the self from taking a reactionary of being as would a weakness of heart where one may also give in to temptations.
Temptations are bountiful which may easily appeal as it is all short cut towards achieving one’s desires and where one simply follows the dictum of the mind or the heart problems will appear on the horizon as one has not sufficiently tamed the mind to be a friend and instead it keeps taking one on territories where there will be challenges to one’s being at the very base; hence the idea of being diligent and prudent or perpetual alertness needs be there to counteract the efforts the mundane which always seek to ensnare us through its reactionary modes of being.
A strong mind generates an equally similar heart where all is about thoughtful engagements where the mind/heart are not a prey to the material but rather it is about norms which put a stop at the mundane whilst seeking an alternative with a foreseeable goal ahead to be reached. There is a clear strategy … a goal or life mission where the subject is not dented by pleasures, desires and or temptations since there is a comrade mind in operation rather than a reluctant one which succumbs at every junction. Likewise, the heart equally is never at the mercy of the seen but one which works alongside the mind in a synergy of being where the self prospers instead of being a victim.