Shree: Egg first or Chicken?

 

020422: Shree: Egg first or Chicken?

Egg first or the chicken? This question seems applicable to the reality of motion which we call as existence or life and death. The question talks of interconnected variables which keep changing and at the same time also mean one and the same (egg contains the chicken and vice versa and one changes to another as a cycle). To see a phenomenon from a position means to define a start point and an end; but to see it as a total experience means to encounter a “web” of variables across given space and a “cycle” across time. This also means that the search for the start and an end of an event has severe limitations and not only so, but to evaluate or judge anything is also unwarranted as there is no start point or end point for anything. As motion, we are born so we are compelled to judge a thing but it is all in the head, so to say – in absolute sense, it is immaterial.

This also means that the search for perfection is illusion and to imagine a past or future as a perfect situation is also limited as a proposition. To do something to reach perfection within self is also an illusionary idea. All things in life are actually abstraction and the moment one thinks that one has found a source, one is mistaken. So there is no rest here. I may say whatever about my actions and hopes of people to change provided “some action” is done (a condition is set) but it does not lead one anywhere – rather a new incomplete situation occurs!

This requires some deep thought to understand what or how things are required to be approached (I don’t even know if one can propose a solution here). Firstly, the above realization will tell – many things happen without our complete knowledge and they may have got nothing to do with us. Things and our self worth are unconnected ideas. Self (or soul) depends on nothing. Things DO NOT define our worth and vice versa. This liberation creates peace and lets one define actions that are unconditional to space and time. Being unconditional is a state of “mind” and that creates bliss. This also means that the reality or the truth of life is ONLY in the process of action and NOT in the result. In other words process should not be determined by the result (or even the anticipated result). We can only act and we have no other duty or responsibility or attachment to anything. Attachment is an idea – that makes us attached to event, situation, person, construct, imagination – anything. This can make us disturbed.

I may imagine many things about how my boss ought to act (if he is aggressive) or how my wife should listen or talk or respond or say or understand me and so on. I may think that by saying or doing things in a particular manner, things will get resolved and people will get happy and so on. It doesn’t and there is nothing personal about it. I say a thing and that is all. I get a feedback and that is all. I do things and the matter ends there. So there is no expectation from action or analysis of what has been received – all is acceptable, since all is from consciousness. Only action is important.

Hari Om.