Motion and Planning

 

080222: Shree: Motion and Planning

The more one focuses to “solve” the problem, the more number of variables to control one discovers. In other words, concentrating on problem only increases complexity of the same! Reversely, if one ignores the problem, it does not “go away” but keeps bothering you. So what is to be done?

The basis of any problem is located in vibrations (apparent sense of movement and creation of force and form). Since we ourselves are motion, we will keep creating problems to be engaged with! Thus, we and the problems are one and the same. As long as we exist as motion, problems will continue to be perceived without any beginning or end and we will keep searching for the illusionary place called as a perfect situation! Thus the thing to be learnt is that the problem lies within us and so does the permanent solution to dissolve it.

In our daily lives, there is a lot of self talk we do. Talking (vibrations) is real and no matter what one may say about being implicit or nebulous, it still affects our perception. The issue is not with a force or how big is any matter or form; the issue is more profound in terms of vibrations which are so subtle that unless we become subtle, we may not even know what is happening within us. At that subtle level, one understands that consciousness is a medium that may convert (or appear) as vibrations that generates a form – “we” and our perception of the world around us. So anything can dissolve into consciousness and anything can appear from the same medium. Anything can change, anything can be interlinked and anything can be seen as form or force or consciousness. This is the medium that exists.

Why do we therefore think of job, money, and plan so many things around it – not to mention wife, kids, family and many other “Requirements” to sustain us or make us survive! There is an assumption hidden in acquiring these experiences. What if I do not obey these constructs? What will happen? Will I fear loosing out on anything? Will I feel lonely and if yes then why? What has these constructs to do with me?

Planning is a tying up of numerous variables that keep changing and whose connections we forge. More the connections, more is the compulsion to control these variables and more are our feelings at an anxious state. Another word is how does one look at “Time”? Time seems to change fast, if we concentrate on micro variables and if the equation becomes too complex to include billion connected variables. This is what AI seems to be giving us – the cost of collaboration and interconnectedness and then the compulsion to control and streamline things to become a machine of perfection – all feelings and nuances wiped out! So much for purposeful living and the hype over individualism! I will care too hoots if the internet collapses and I am not fed by live data of how a flower seems to bloom every micro second and what that means about my mood!

My parents are of that age and physical and mental condition that “logical response with them” hardly works. They forget many things and this generates a lot of questions about remembrance and identity. I cannot ask why and neither am I to be irritated by that or feel guilty about being helpless to that condition. They cannot talk loud, all words sound gibberish and they stick ferociously to one point despite alternative way of seeing the same scenario. Comprehensively, this is “fear” (guarding the survival of mind and body at their age) and there is no reason why such transformations happen and what can we do about this situation? Clinging or attachment or expectations are present at all ages of humanity and these tendencies present to us in different forms at different times of our lives. If I think they (and me) are in pain then what is pain? Pain is felt because there is expectation, compulsion, urge, attachment to mind and body and so many things. Pain is an experience of mind and body and it is vibration after all. One creates a vibration and that creates a life for him/her. I have a vibration and other person will have a different vibration. Both of us are not responsible entirely for what we create for self and definitely not responsible for how it affects the other. The issue is of understanding the concept of vibrations and to know that it is a “form” of the One; that it is only apparent. All change is apparent and what motion says to us is only an illusion and not to be considered real enough to respond out of compulsion. In the process, if many things are left out by me, or I am not able to do a lot of things, then is that a failure? NO. Why should it be considered in that way? What has events got to do with “me”?

The best time is that when time gets suspended. This means to do something without any purpose or expectation and being unconditional in thought, love and action. For this, situation is immaterial and compulsions are namesake – they are excuses for not being unconditional. My being unconditional has got nothing to do with situations. If I love, then I should love regardless of anything put I front of me.

Similar compulsion comes from our construct of past and future – the pull of the mind in many directions to do this, have this, get this, go there, stop here, meet him or be with her and so on. Who creates this pull and why? And if you notice, this pull is something that we construct in our million cycles of births.

The final botheration is about taking a “position” and again funnily why do we do this? Progress or stagnation (if at all felt in that manner) is tied again with time and what we are doing etc. All is ridiculous at one level of achieving perfection.

At another level, it is acknowledging that these pulls as incidental and knowing that they are coming or present because of God. So renouncing will matter a lot, concentrating and observing motion becomes important and remembering God and being unconditional becomes important. I am God and I require no proof for this. This thought should sink within.

Hari Om.