Fields of inquiry

 

100222: Shree: Fields of inquiry

People choose to get engaged in a variety of thought patterns - which shape our perception, response to environment and continue the cycle of births. Why I choose to get engaged in something cannot be answered completely although the tendency can be accepted. Phenomenon cannot be asked “why” as a pattern. To accept the phenomenon and to love unconditionally is the greatest of learning a human mind can do and attain to freedom subsequently. From being conditional, a state of non conditional being can be realized. Till that state is realized, we are consumed by questions of why and compulsions and cause-effects and bread. Vibrations will compel us to define a purpose and to respond to internal insecurity or change and all the imagination based on any purpose will entrap us in the same ongoing cycle of births. Unless we realize that God exists and our real nature is non motion, we will continue in this crazy expression of creating some noise.

Anyway, the point is that every kind of thought pattern is valid and is not necessary to give some output in the least amount of time. Philosophical thought (of renunciation) is also an output, except that it cannot be validated in the world of motion. That does not mean that people engaged in philosophy need to give up those ideas. Far from it. Of course, as one keeps realizing philosophical ideas, one is creating a situation for himself/herself that he/she needs to face, regardless of whatever consequence of those thought patterns may generate. In fact one is always becoming through some kind of engagement and one is always facing consequences. If one clings to those situations, one becomes “motion” if one dissolves motion then one becomes consciousness. Either way, it is a reality or mind is the creator of reality.

So we have philosophy as the potential to know one. Then we also have phenomenology where the subject matter is about internal world of imagination (or analysis of imagination) and this world is as real as any external “object”. If one asks what is to be achieved by this field, then again it may be a ridiculous question to be asked. I hate this question when people ask about relevance and purpose (as if the entire existence or our actions were based on the sole logic of output). Phenomenology is for those who wish to be engaged in a diverse range of emotions or thoughts.

Psychology is also a field wherein the workings of the human mind are seen and analyzed – again a huge world of thoughts and is as abstract and complex as much as any difficult engineering project.

History, culture, archaeology, environment and so on are the fields where patterns, transformations, generations, changes, global, interconnectedness, wholesomeness is perceived. It may be an opposite view of human centred dominance. Architecture is also supposed to be a field that lies at the intersection of geography, history and philosophy.  

We also have arts, music and sports that can transcend human constructs and reach the inner recesses of the mind of feelings and help us connect.

We all inherit these patterns. The inheritance is a gift and each person will look at existence in unique and complimentary ways to yours. The idea was never about comparison, but always about connections and transcendence, since all are actually coming from the same Source. Choose any path and any start point, but come to God and acknowledge His presence.

Hari Om.