Space

From Space

Light, air, sound, water, fire

existence

perception

intent

glimpse, movement, enclosure

Scale, proportion, axis, symmetry, volume, mass, shape

Colour, texture, openings, planes, materials

Architecture

To Meaning

Only an ‘Opinion’?

Whether one does this or does that – is perceived only as an ‘opinion’!

 This is what our consciousness has come to! AS if terms such as environment, sustenance, flexibility, or anything that is verbalized – can be seen as a matter of “choice”! Truth itself can be an ‘opinion’!

The above tendency reflects an idea of “context” at an infinitesimal scale. A fleeting moment and all the reality embedded only in the moment. The connections are lost or untainable….continuity is redundant….concerns of change or adaptation hold little meaning in this world. By extension, anything about memory, culture, history, feelings (from memory), lose their existence as a long term phenomena.

In such a state of mind that we see everywhere, what does one agree to? All voices are true and false at the same time. ‘I’ can say whatever I like because saying has got a strong validity – whether its right or wrong (in authentic terms) is a secondary issue here! I feel we end up creating “noise” – unstructured/ fragmented/ fleeting and nonsense. Try to see that this external noise - is it an indicator of the ‘internal’ noise?

If one attempts to see above tendencies that are getting generated in the mind, the question is to how does one start to make the mind calm? How does it slow down? And how does it connect to other minds or thoughts or feelings – how is empathy generated? What is the nature of association with the phenomena? Continuous reminding oneself of above questions may lead to the discovery of the consciousness present in all of us. Herein, space + time are seen as existential contexts and ALSO having a dimension of transcendence. The thoughts, processes, articulation and products then generate “music”. Here, we are concerned with what is Truth? And this Truth makes everything in cosmos. It no longer remains a matter of ‘opinion’ – since opinion is contextual/limited. Truth is Truth – It only IS.

Improvement and Burden

I think the concern of improving oneself, being more productive, having a direction, being methodical, rational, has got to do with controlling the mind in some ways.

To doubt oneself and be stuck in the past is of little use. Doubting for the sake of understanding the nature of life is fine. However, to continuously consider oneself 'incomplete' is a tendency of the  mind that requires some monitoring/ supervision/ control.

We remain incomplete from the boundary of mind-body. The void is going to generate thoughts and with thoughts - there is imagination. Imagination has an effect. One can't avoid the effect of thoughts on oneself. Again, the urge to think is unstoppable and therefore, the urge to act. Is urge based on fear? Does it only exist?

If it is possible to change the nature of urge from 'fear' to just existence, the entire nature of imagination changes. And that's the only reality we ought to be concerned with. If that doesn't change, then whatever one does, is doing nothing more than expressing fear in sophisticated ways. And if one expresses fear, one gets it in return too!

A lot of effort is based on techniques, positive actions and thoughts and so on. The real effort is to see the pattern of thoughts and change the pattern to pure sharing/ love/compassion/ expansion. Start by offering something or by giving. Start by considering that one has abundant reservoir of positive energy to be shared and for encouragement with others. The attachment with situations, things, people, work, will thereby start to diminish.

Diminishing attachment means making one's mind extremely "light" and fluid and unbounded with space-time.

Pain, suffering, past, complexities, opinions, judgments are a burden that we carry. The burden comes with separation, considering us unique in the space-time dimension and the urge to be perfect arises.

Removing this clutter of baggage holds the key to lighten the mind.