Visualization

 

Not thinking of anything is the best way to live. Thinking is an output of a personal “will” – consciousness having taken the form of a human body and therefore the thoughts getting informed by the constraints/ requirements/ tendency of “vibration” or of identifying one’s existence with mind and body.

As long as this identification exists, we don’t consider the “vibrations” (force) as a tendency, but something that affects us and makes us “believe” or visualize a life. If we are able to realize that consciousness is separate from vibrations, then we remain unaffected by what these vibrations make us do. When I say “we”, I am already influenced by the vibrations and I see the world or the forms as separate from myself – so I am compelled to respond. So I think; I attract vibrations based on the attachment to my own generated desires and those results in some action and the cycle continues. I am compelled to act because for me, the forms and perceptions look extremely real – to the extent that I cannot separate the Self from these experiences formed by mind and body. Although we generally refer to terms as “mind” and “body”, these are just states of manifestations (or consciousness appearing as a human body). In the process of appearance as a human body, the characteristics of consciousness have undergone tremendous transformation. Not only consciousness is seen as a body and mind, but the body or mind also perceives itself and others based on this state of manifestation! Thus, every state of vibration brings in new forms of perception and matter. Thus the effects of vibration (perception/ memory/ identity/ attachment) cannot be separated from how the form seems to appear.

Thus it is said that we are merely reading a book and getting mesmerized in the “story” we have created for ourselves. The story, in abstract terms, is “motion” or “force” that keeps oscillating from consciousness to particle and vice versa.  This oscillation has limitless options to appear and hence there are limitless stories to unfold. All perceptions, tendencies, feelings and intellect are a part of this vibrations. And so is birth and death and any other phenomenon that one wishes to include in this story.

The moment I realize this then I choose to concentrate on motion and what it leads me to do. Then one may realize further, that there are different kinds of motions, different speeds and different scales. When one sees subtle and more subtle and more slower kinds of motions or vibrations, then one inches closer and closer to consciousness. Finally, no motion remains and what is realized is a state of consciousness. This is all “visualization”. I (as a human being) have the ability to actually see or sense these states. What I see right now, is an act of “visualization”. What I hope to see later, will also depend on the power of “visualizations”. This idea is as much applicable to any action, any field, any creative output and any imagination of life.

This consciousness is beyond any motion, so it is beyond any known laws of cause and effect. What is cause and effect anyway? It is all motion. The effect is the cause that has appeared in a different manner. And we ourselves are in a state of motion, so we catch certain causes and hope to act on these, so we create effects. These in turn become causes for us to continue acting and the story continues. We of course die one day, but then what is death anyway? It is nothing but an effect of the cause produced and the cause of death is producing some effect on a new event (a new birth?) later on! So birth and death are just two points in the continuous cause-effect phenomenon. Something “enters” (takes a form and starts to perceive) and something “vanishes” (departs the form and the state of perception) to “something else”…

The above realization should make us aware that situations are upto us to occur. They are “perceived” and hence there is action and reaction (or motion). Another thing to consider here is the construct of “ego” in the form of manifestation and the expectation to control the causes and effects and the expectation to take credit and dismiss discredit – all these indicate “preferences”. The inquiry is: the motion is incidental, so our experiences are incidental – a part of reality. What happens as situations and how we respond have limited effects – there are innumerable forces at play. So whatever happens is the result of consciousness and its manifestations. There is motion and that is what there is. One may choose to get entangled or one may go to the source of the motion. Choice is ours.