Ideas – Processes - Product

Come to think of it, “thoughts” exist in a vacuum of space – one can’t see or catch or stop or continue – but can only feel….much like the surfer floating on the waves. The waves come and go, the surfer only maintains a balance. Thus, we keep running from pillar top post trying to accomplish something – trying to catch some sort of a ghost, but all the time we are just there – the consciousness not governed by space or time. The feeling of space-time dimension is born out of manifestation of the Formless. That is, the ‘form’ operates or exhibits a dimension of space and time – externally as well as internally. As body and mind, we have manifested out of consciousness and hence there are thoughts that make us perceive and conceive reality or our specific idea of space and time. Thoughts therefore can be directed only towards manifestations, or the processes or an idea. Manifestations change and to remain attached to the manifestations can cause pain. It is better to dwell on ideas as they are yet to manifest but show a potential to be converted into a process and then a product – a manifestation. ‘Phenomenon’ can be understood as a combination of idea/ intent, process and a product. A product, therefore, can lead to an idea. A product is to be seen as a gateway to the idea (which may be contextually relevant for a given place and time) and moving beyond the context, we may see the idea purely as a pattern of consciousness – which can manifest if we undertake the effort of doing so.

For people thinking about the idea, it may seem difficult to convey their thoughts or intentions to people who concentrate only on the products. Products aren’t permanent or don’t convey the nature of reality. Clinging to such a tendency of holding on to a product becomes problematic for everyone. Why not discuss the idea itself? Anything can either be seen as a product in itself or an idea. Religion becomes a product to confirm if looked at only from the perspective of following set rituals. Religion becomes an idea if decoded to the level of revealing the Formless nature of things. Similarly is the case with personalities – are you reacting to a personality ‘type’? If that is the case, then you are seeing the personality (or the person) as a fixed product which you insist must confirm to your own set standards. If you consider yourself fixed, then you are also seeing yourself as a product! However, a person may be seen as a set of ideas that can also potentially ignite your own ideas – then there is discussion involved (and not any compulsion to confirm to someone’s standards).

Why not attempt to decode everything to the level of patterns? What are these patterns? How are they created? How do they lead to some changing manifestations of seasons, climate, ecology, flora, fauna, people etc.? By adhering to this urge of understanding patterns in Nature, we move beyond extremely narrow definitions of age, gender, language, religion, ethnicity, nation, humans and so on. This involves a struggle within. It is not an easy task since it just challenges the notion of body and mind. But that’s the potential of the human mind – to attain freedom from fixations and to exist as pure consciousness!