Simple

Times are mentally taxing. I am not referring to hapless coordination issues and management of billion things each day. This is, of course, default phenomenon that causes stress.

However, fundamental to stress is the compulsion to soak in trash, to verbalize each and every thought and to debate extensively to arrive at a minuscule decision! Indeed, I seriously doubt if ‘intellectuals’ really end up being mentally happy. By verbalizing things or phenomena, we may tend to unnecessarily complicate matters, and all it probably requires is a simple act of faith, trust and doing the thing. 

Ironically, by being complicated in the mind, the tendency to remain simple is being felt too difficult to consider! Being simple is to know oneself – values, beliefs. These values, although tend from the individual – are informed heavily from the environment. The more these values are informed by geography, the more simple and direct our responses become. The idea is to be unsophisticated. 

In life, what is really required anyway? I come to a couple of basic values in our actions – empathy, sustenance and respect for the environment, and emotional connect. Fundamentally, taking a ‘stand’ is not the issue here – it is transformation of the mind. Taking a stand requires critical analysis always (where one contextualizes a situation and a response and keeps on debating), whereas transformation deals with only pure understanding of ‘me’ and its relation to the environment. 

Transformation of mind involves increasing compassionate quotient within oneself and dropping off sophistication, separateness, debates, arguments, proving oneself and so on. It is being ‘silent’.

Thus, the question to be asked to oneself – is what should be the result of any research? And more importantly, are you aware of your state of mind, that generates some nature of thoughts, thereby affecting you? 

If you desired peace, what should be those thoughts like? What should they depend on? What is security of self? What is mind? And can thoughts therefore, not become sophisticated? Can they be direct – like the Sun or wind or rain? Can they represent purity of space?