Skin

 

I like the idea of “skin”. Whatever we see around us can be regarded as “skin”. Our body is a skin that senses touch, smell, sound, taste, colour, texture, forms, temperature. Senses work because of our nervous system. These signals in turn are then taken to the brain and are analysed – perceived and conceived (“mind”/”we”/”action” is defined and executed). The way of doing the analysis and inferring something from the signals – is upto the individual or that organism in fact. What determines the method of analysis? Why do individuals analyse the same signals very differently and respond in different ways? So, there seems to be an impulse and or a desire for doing this….So, what is a desire that compels one to analyse and respond? Where is it located and how does it create a momentum of thoughts? Who decides this momentum? What is this ‘Who’? How can this momentum be altered? What is the purpose of alteration? Is it a worthwhile effort to perfect these questions and get to the ‘fundamental’ answer – a start point?

My  humble experience suggest that the pursuit of these questions is endless. These questions indicate a reality of complex nature – something that one calls as a reality, that can change depending on one’s mind and can dissolve completely to reveal a Direct Experience. So, the personal can change to become Universally Impersonal Being.

We call our own self as  something mortal, having a body and mind – which in fact, is a state of existence, or a state of creating thoughts or a state of vibration. Compulsion to act is inevitable. Dissolution of body to dust and transformation of our  mind/ force into some different form of existence is also inevitable – since that is the cycle of life.

In its most abstract description, ‘life’ is a vibration that is an expression of space, force and matter. These forms of vibrations result in manifestations of different scales – all interconnected and interconvertible. Hence, from the standpoint of a particular vibration, the ‘notion’ of the ‘other’ gets formed. From the standpoint of Space, no such  distinction exists. This is worth remembering – not to ignore our life events or dispose them off or to take anything more serious than what is required.

The exercise is only for realization and awareness.