Shree: being steady

 

300922: Shree: being steady

perception is a result of vibrations leading to forms that remain interdependent and keep changing - this is the manner in which we express through any forms of expression - from language to words to poems to paintings and so on. expression is inevitable - in what way vibrations create expressions is important.

first of all, there is nothing to fear, since fear is a construct of a state of mind that considers itself aloof or separated from the creation process. analysis will only help one to understand this situation in better ways and help us to accept this scenario, but it is not just analysis that is sufficient for bliss. we are required to become calm, meditate, remember God, think appropriately, act, feel, and so on. all dimensions of perception are require to point towards meeting God or becoming God. all we see or create and respond is a construct and it is only for us to realize our nature of perception taking place as "motion".

many times we cannot explain what we encounter deep within and we expect people to read our minds and accept us as we are. it may or may not happen. changes happen, anything can change and people may understand or they won't. all this thinking too creates separation of self with others (or a hint of ego) and hence there is pain again. the issue is with our identification with separation, no matter how subtle levels we become ourselves.

this is to be accepted as a part of evolution. painful, but true. there is always still a possibility of becoming anything despite the situation and hence to become God. at a more practical level, it is about analyzing emotions and clearing the ground for taking unbiased and unconditioned decisions and trusting that all will be good. even if this is achieved, a lot of load gets lifted or cleared from our minds.

Hari Om.

Shree: Have Faith

 

250922: Shree: Have Faith

Existence only is. Existence is perceived as a state of mind – either of forms or of the One. The forms are temporarily created and dissolved as a potential of existence and these depend on the nature of vibrations to become something. This something depends on everything else and does not have any independent or absolute existence. Nothing in motion ever has any permanent or absolute existence and hence is subjected to the behavior of space and time. Space and time are one and the same and ever changing and interdependent. They are also a form of expression of consciousness and as we have feelings, so do space and time.

As perception we are in a loop of thoughts generated and attached by us through vibrations. As long as there is a hint of attachment or of individualness or of ego or of mind or body, there is some idea of motion in space and time and our expectation and self talk persists. By analyzing we may over think and we may defend our position till the “right” moment comes or till the “right” action is taken and so on. As intellect anything can be regarded as a start point; any sequence can be generated; any defense can be undertaken; any justification can be given. Retrospection itself can be seen as a defense at times and the continuous self talk may also be a defense against action.

It can be said that if there is ego, we tend to perceive that motion is always against you. Perhaps that is the ego’s way to sustain itself or always be in struggle. The fundamental struggle is with the self and no matter how much ever the sequence is known or predicted, what is in store as situations or experiences cannot get dismissed or suppressed or ignored or skipped. It maybe perhaps learning sent from God and we need to spend all the momentum (of past impressions, present impressions, future pulls) till we become God. Swami Vivekananda says that it is the constitutional right of the Soul to realize itself and just as Existence is or light is, so is the reality of the Soul that will be discovered or realized one day. What situations or time or space makes one realize this – is only to be trusted to God and self effort.

Any moment can be perceived as anything – there is no fixed definition in motion – it all depends on how one thinks about the same. Behind all actions and concepts and ideas and feelings, exist only the One whose Will works. As motion, we think very linearly or logically and that is too narrow a lens that gives rise to pain. Pain, in itself is not bad – it is inevitable because of change and how we cling to it. It is required for us to learn something from this response of experiencing pain again and again. What words matter, what feelings matter also cannot be predicted or planned – people open up only when situations become so and we think that by saying these words or doing that, things happened. All is by God and in what way things materialize is magic. Leave it to God and do your job of putting absolute trust and faith on God.  

As we move ahead in life, we may hear and ourselves perceive pain and fear and guilt and incompleteness. I feel it many times and despite thinking about how it could be corrected or deflected, I still experience these difficult feelings – inexpressible many times and unexplainable many times and realizing that this is all a “loop”. Can this be avoidable? The question is – why to avoid like a problem? It is to be accepted as a human experience and to make ourselves steady. Secondly no amount of analysis makes a situation of present or future “perfect”. It is an illusion of the ego because of separation. Thirdly what goes on as motion, we need not have any control and neither are we answerable for the same, except our mindscape.

Only God is. Any compulsions or desires that are felt, are misplaced, although that is a learning one needs to have.  It takes time – listen to everything, be steady in all, be still, be calm, give love and be happy. Analysis and apprehension (past and future) are only imaginations – what happens will happen and what will come also shall go. Have faith.

Hari Om.

Shree: listen

 

240922: Shree: listen

when people say deeply felt implicit things of fear, sadness, guilt, hope, acceptance is not known - the situation prompts them to say so - sometimes we are a witness to it, sometimes the place does some magic sometimes the  time seems right - whatever it is - things happen or are said and we need to feel only gratitude towards it. we cannot predict anything here and need not worry how things become - let things happen in a manner they should without any interference (of thought) from our end. the less we interfere, the less their impact on us - till it all dissolves. similarly, listen to whatever is observed or heard - that is strength and none can escape the inner turmoil of the mind. listen to those turmoil and learn to relax - they too will go away. remember God behind everything.  it is better if the same quality of gratitude is expressed for anything that existence manifests. i can analyse how things have happened and that is a dimension that is different from spontaneous experience of bliss (or an unconditional existence). analysis, sequencing, inferring, perception, change, forms happen in a state of manifestation (a movement or a vibration) and feeling forces and vibrations are also regarded as perception or movement of a different kind - till we become the One or non motion or unconditional.

i think that despite whatever we may feel; things are required to be witnessed and endured and thanked for. endurance is because of what gets perceived -  because of manifestation of mind and body - these have come a long way, so the past momentum has to be converted to tranquility. one must therefore be patient and although again these words may mean for a person, it involves expansion of mind to become the universal One.

Be brave. No change is you unless you allow it to affect yourself. No mind or body is you and nothing can touch you (as s Soul). All the difference is only an illusion of the tiny mind you are holding onto - let it go and expand to become the One. This is not a linear process and the process itself is a kind of self discovery.

but it is real and worth living for.

Hari Om.

Shree: Listening

 

230922: Shree: Listening

today's research in architecture, two things were observed while discussing things with students

how does one evaluate an "experience" of library? this sentence can be generalised to address - what is an experience and how can it be spoken about (as words or as sequence and interconnections?) the question itself indicates an answer - experience is a reality of feeling or a perception of existing in space and time. this means that existence is not a neutral event but is "felt" in the mind and meanings get generated. Philosophically, vibrations or movements lead to forces and then to visible forms of perceptions - that change and remain interdependent. space, time is a manifestation of the One. experience therefore seem to take "place" or is formed in space-time matrix. this presents a phenomenon (perception) and which is felt or experienced.

the point is now how to articulate the experience? this means that "variables" and their interrelationships need to be understood that lead to an experience. in other words, we talk about the experience in terms of why, how, where, when and what. this is research. as an extension, despite knowing these parameters, the Truth of "now" is beyond grasp of summation of known variables. Hence things remain alive and unpredictable.

 

the second point is about "comfortable" conversation or being  or existence. generally, if people do not trust or they are in defensive mood, they do not reveal anything to the listener. while talking with a student we were discussing how comfort takes place and how answers from participants or people come forth when they become comfortable with us - this means time, engagement, being non judgmental, non intrusive and not emphasizing any solution and acceptance of ambiguousness and unclear or evolving picture. when does comfort happen and where and how? we have no definite answers to this question - it is not a question of how it happens - it is more a matter of being alive and comfortable without any conditions or pressures of anything or pressures of motion. this issue is about "Being" and letting things be as they are and letting yourself be as you are without any judgment or evaluations or self talk. another related point is about how we listen and this becomes an important consideration of perception. depending on internal vibrations/ desires, we listen or perceive existence or people. so vibrations need to generate comfort - they can only when they do not depend on anything changeable. architecture is about feeling of Being comfortable; with Existence; Existence. a world is revealed that cannot be predicted or analyzed. one is open for receiving anything and responding as one feels. there is no condition and there is no expectation of reciprocal relationship. it is all about giving.

In a truest sense, God has these qualities that take the form of manifestation and manifestation gets perceived if intents, vibrations, feelings get generated. perhaps there is "no if" in this equation. God has a property of feelings, thoughts and action. By being comfortable, all vibrations become Godlike.

 

the last point i wish to say here that aren't these thoughts and approaches important to acknowledge? that the physical form is not an end in itself but a beginning and more needs to be felt to become comfortable with one self and the other. listening and being quiet is required - especially to accept our own pains. listening can help us accept pain more gracefully than hiding or ducking or brushing it. Who knows the mystery of Existence? Who knows what Existence has in store and what It does? Embrace It; accept It; receive It!

Hari Om.

 

Shree

 

Shree

intellect has a character of its own - it will analyse and decode a situation as variables in the equation and sequence it for optimal effect. any point can be a start point which results in linking and perception of a situation. in other words - perception is establishing variables, connections and sequences within them. so there seems to be visibility, change and movement as far as intellect is concerned.

intellect is a tendency of analysis with an intent. that intent may be generated from ego or from consciousness. with ego, we are saying control of all changes. this control has affected architecture too - technologically, in terms of scale (human to gigantic); modes of production (hand done to manufacturing); resource management (local to global); public to privatisation of all spaces and then to fragmentation; transitional spaces to completely transparent to heavily guarded to smart systems; transitional or changing to completely static to imitating organicness.

there are two things that seem to be happening here - as human perception, acceptance of change in space and time and tendencies and multiplicity is fundamental. acceptance for slowness, transitions, is important. by industrial production, modernism and other post modern movements, what seems to have changed is the map of mindscape - from subtle to being highly critical and aggressive. what also may be evident that fundamental core issues of anchoring, privacy and connect and nature cannot be ignored and hence reactions of all kinds (such as "smart") are an indication of that.

finally architecture is not about solving a problem or being critical or making a statement or being self righteous or justifying or taking a position or proving something (again an indication or a response to what seems to be happening around). Can it be pure delight?

shouldn't it?

Hari Om.

Shree: Being Alive

 

Shree: Being Alive

design is a discovery of the self and not the motion. or it is the interpretation of what is motion. in this sense, everything (including architecture) is an opportunity to express oneself in terms of values and realize Godliness. as context, there may be many demands or requirements but creativity is above or beyond these constraints - it rests with Being and comfort and hence place of transition, movement, time, space, tranquility, feelings becomes very important to be expressed and how they may get perceived. it is not a matter of what one knows before - but a matter of being very comfortable with the self (as an aspect of Existence) and then creating something. Godliness is in the self and not outside. nothing is a formula here. the expression requires invention every moment and that is the real meaning of being alive. Motion may be anything but what makes Godliness visible within us - are important considerations of design and nothing else.

control is a flawed concept. at any point of time, how much ever i know the variables of the Truth (by analysis) - whether it is vibrations or forces or forms - it is still an idea of motion and hence changeable, impermanent and always in the making. for many lives, we live with some fundamental vibrations that generate the same situations except through many other forms.  forms come and go but the inbuilt fundamental vibrations create momentum and situations. as long as vibrations exist, there are many lives and many relationships and many situations. i may understand this and keep on getting an expansive idea with time, but i will have to accept whatever changes and transformations happen along the way. whatever this expansion and subtleness, there still exists differentiation and hence some nature of attachment.

Being alive is to just be comfortable in existence and no conditions attached. It involves space and  time but NOT in a linear way.

Hari Om.

Shree: Analysis

 

190922: Shree: Analysis

Analysis is important no doubt. We perceive and hence we analyze – behind the analysis are the vibrations that lead to forces and then forms and a construct of ego and everything else as life and death. A situation is understood by deploying the tool of analysis and identifying the variables in the equation. The basic trigger is “why”. Despite the analytical framework that helps one to decode and analyze a phenomenon, it cannot predict any future outcome if the same variables are applied with known sequences and frequencies and intensities. This might look obvious, but we do not take into account this logic and keep on expecting situation to be 100 percent predictable knowing the variables we may have discovered in the “past”! Thus analysis leads to understanding a situation as “lived” in that moment but creative expression is a step into the Unknown and hence cannot come into the grasp of analysis.

Here is a loop – we encounter a “situation” (of our own making); then we analyze the same with respect to what is it and our response and then we expect the future to be “better” and it does not (since variables of future remain “new”) and then we remain engaged in this cycle of analysis and perfection. No matter how much ever minutely perfection can be defined, we still cannot accept the newness of the future.

All this means that we need to let go of analysis after a point and just accept the situation as it is. Existence is larger than anything else and hence things happen for our own good and they happen by taking into account vibrations that are built from many cycles of time and we are not aware of all the connections.

This is one learning that should be accepted – the incompleteness of motion and the feeling of impermanence. Secondly all objects as seen in motion are incomplete. Any variable that defines a situation or a person or a construct or some dimension of myself is evolving, changing and impermanent and always in flux. This creates distractions, hyperactivity, control, expectations, defense, and production cycles and so on.

Finally things are what they are. They are connected laterally and they need not depend on us or any other person or they do not have got anything to do with existence. We fear and hence situations get generated. In all of this, it is we who choose to remain engaged in some particular vibrations and hence situations. We feel some kind of protection and defense as long as the situation endorses our feelings, fears, emotions, thoughts and so on. The ego sustains itself by remaining alive in motion. This gets translated in billion ways in terms of constructs of past, present, future, space and time.

At a practical level, choose what you ought to be engaged with – this will generate cycles. Secondly, accept everything that this choice offers and give all fruits of labour to God. Thirdly remember God. Fourth, trust that you will become transformed. Fifth, God is and not us.

Hari Om.

Shree: Becoming the Truth

 

170922: Shree: Becoming the Truth

The name of God gives everything. I can talk of motion and then realize its limitation leading to renouncement of all perceptions and then subsequently focus on God – this is one way.

Or I can put faith in God as the generator of everything or the perception of “many” and hence learn to accept everything as it comes and goes and in whatever condition I perceive a situation. I will realize that situation is an apparent construct made by vibrations (so also the concept of i) and hence will respond to perception with love or focusing on being unconditional, non judgmental, relaxed and accepting things as they are. This would assist in not identifying with motion or with expanding awareness to the One. Stillness of vibrations leads to Godliness. This is in us, but we forget this absolute fact because we exist in relative truth of motion. Relative truth will give us perception and to realize absoluteness, one “becomes”absolute”.

Thus truth is about becoming and not on conceptualizing or talking. Restrict the urge of arguments, discussions, debates, competitions, justifications and so on. They cause more harm than good. The idea of goodness is a larger value than independent mind-body existence and this is what we need to understand. Anything that merges all is good and anything that separates the One as motion is limited and causes pain.

Finally analysis may help understand variables in the equation but the reverse of putting these variables into a whole does not mean the same. Summation of revealed variables does not mathematically lead to becoming Truth! In other words, analysis fragments a phenomenon. But adding variables into making a Whole does not materialize, since the process of adding does not “melt” variables or make the variables still. As long as summation is done, there is an awareness of variables and interconnections and hence awareness of change and experience of pain. No matter how much an intellect tries to understand the situation mathematically, it still will change and cause pain. No matter how much “clear” and “explicit” a situation is understood and explained to the “other” there is no satisfaction –since all this process happens in the world of motion and “many”.

This perhaps means that stillness involves concentration, focus, dedication, stillness on any object to begin with – it may be sound or sight or colour or texture or activity or work or relationship. We start with a changing nature of vibrations (perceptions) and have to focus enough to make the perception “still”. This causes motion to go or melt away and to become the One.

Hari Om.

Shree: Dilemma

 

150922: Shree: Dilemma

the "other" (and hence "me") is a distorted belief from the perspective of Absolute Existence. ego is a dimension or state of existence and then the idea of planning, comparison, engagement, expectation, control, perception, time, space, change, relationships, situations getting conceived by ego. philosophy tries to talk about limitation of this idea of ego and recommends to dissolve or reject the same. this takes time and patience and involves calmness and trusting any mode of revelation that happens in any instant. i may assume a certain stance for action but whatever is thought about is the Will of God, i being a minor instrument through which God's Will actualizes and is felt. we all operate by vibrations which we hold on to. streamlining or refining just makes them predictable and at the same time "limited" and hence it is sure to cause discomfort and insecurity to the self - whatever the effort undertaken. as long as any idea of i (as motion) exists, there is impermanence, change, engagement and insecurity.

so what are we looking at? i think it is more of an idea of letting God act and not us - meaning attributing everything to God - just everything without any iota of doubt.

doubt exists because of perception of mind and body - it is one of the dimensions of our perception and hence we do not let go off things - whatever our belief. comparisons are inevitable between letting go verses action oriented - and this again is a loop. to think of repercussions of actions (no matter how noble they may seem to be) is a loop. the dilemma is in action and trusting forces beyond any motion.

our existence is because of this dilemma and struggle of ego verses Absolute Existence.

Only the One exists - realize this.

Hari Om.

Shree: Memory

 

Shree: Memory

Memory. Memory is based on vibrations or feeling of Existence as recorded by mind and body. In that sense, it is changeable and a construct. Since we perceive separation of self from other, there is a place for memory to sustain this belief. Depending on how one perceives the idea of “self” – the nature of memory or its constituents or parts or sequences or rate of change differs. As long as we are in motion from visible to vibrations, memory of existence will continue to exist. This also means that memory of past lives have also been recorded in our mental DNA and which inform our present perception. The inquiry is what is the memory of God? Memory is by vibrations (thoughts, feelings, decisions and actions). If this is changed to non motion – then that means God. Thus memory itself has to be transcended (a product of vibrations or of mind and body). If vibrations become still, there are no impressions, which means there is no memory, which means there is no attachment or a separate identity, which means all forces and forms do not seem to exist or are not recorded anywhere. So existence in motion, seems to record some forces and forms – else they are not there.

Memory also means our attachment to certain issues constructed by us – they may mean relationships or objects or people or past or future or work or career or money or anything that forms a relation. The question – what is the trigger behind this attachment? Desires. Why are those created? We have no answer, for had we known the answer, we would have not even been vibrating and perceiving life from human perspective! When I listen to my father, I realize that he is accessing the memory of his cherished moments of earlier life, his relationship, his perspectives of looking at life, me, his son, his wife, his concern for control, his compulsion to control, his belief in controlling in a given process, his expectations, his fears of forgetting and hence the urge to “set things” straight and many other subtle things. Did he say all this to me? No. this is about realization of things unsaid.

A human perception includes all this nebulous thinking and any kind of thought seems real enough to initiate an action of some kind. I too may also be entangled in some kind of thoughts, and some of them are so subtle that it will take effort to access them. So we operate based on vibrations. Life, relationships, objects, forces, forms are a crafted story of separation and they have temporary value and it should be realized why do we hang on or cling on and respond to “fear” that dwells within this story of change? And who is this “we”?

So it is about human perception of motion and identity or life. One can look at this as a problem to be solved, but can it be solved and is it a problem to be viewed or a mystery to be accepted?

All things, just as us, have a place here to exist and change and dissolve after a finite time. This is so, because their survival and our survival are one and the same. What action I perceive and undertake the effect is something I too will have to bear. So I do not claim any line of fixed action and there are million ways to perceive things as much as there are million people here on earth.

It is essentially One medium expressing Itself through many minds. No matter how much change we try to talk people out of it, we cling very hard to constructs at various levels. When does transformation and “letting go” happen? Only when you become ready for the process. When one let’s go off motion, God reveals.

Hari Om.

 

Shree: Bliss

 

130922: Shree: Bliss

Good morning Shree! Time. Things are revealed; I am revealed; consciousness is revealed; change is revealed; Being is revealed; calmness is revealed.

Be calm. Motion, which also means I, does not mean anything and is only incidental. I am not the start point (as motion). Remembering God as the start point can give peace with effort and grace of God. Existence is such that it is a combination of linear process and something that is unexpected and beyond imagination.

I do not think that we have a task to decode imagination for the sake of attaining peace. It is about our wonder and focus towards this inquiry that eventually with time, should reveal layers and layers of imagination (or vibrations) that finally reveal consciousness. Revelation cannot be done by force or expectation. In anything in life or Existence – patience is the key – whatever one does; whatever one perceives; whatever happens; whatever changes take place (in whichever character or whichever state of being).

One need not worry about what is in store. One need not depend on what is in store. And one need not defend what is in store, since one’s existence is not defined by what is in store. One exists and there is only the One. What one perceives in life is all a matter of imagination or vibration. One can initiate change at any point of time and become the One. One does not do things for explaining it to others, for who or what are “others”? One need not think about the nature of motion and what the world thinks – since it is only that – a construct born from vibrations that keep changing and remain interdependent. One should also remain in Bliss. One should not even try to find out and articulate in oneself what does Bliss mean. One will realize it. What one does is entirely a personal matter and need not be subject to scrutiny.

Hari Om.

Shree: Architecture and Learning

 

120922: Shree: Architecture and Learning

Learning happens by many ways – to start with intellect and implement is one of the ways. It may happen through feelings or by body. Hence one cannot rely only on intellect to know the Truth – embrace all modes and be open to what is learnt or revealed through any medium – it may happen all of a sudden or laterally. In this respect perception is a “whole” and not a linear interpretation or analysis of events. Hence one learns by senses or by feelings or intellect. One imagines in all these modes and one conceives in all these modes. Phenomenology may be an acknowledgement of how a phenomenon is perceived in all modes and hence the perception of existence (and of space and time) may therefore vary and should be open for discussion and acceptance. A door is not just some static object “out there” but can generate feelings of all kinds which alters the identity or purpose or definition or impact or presence of the door element itself.

We also see consequently that space and time are not static entities which are to be only seen and responded as per some external changes or events taking place mechanically or mathematically or sequentially alone. But they can be perceived through feelings (or generate feelings or mood) and they are also known from perception of body. Thus, space and time is known by all mediums at the same time. We may prefer a particular mode over the other but one cannot deny any of the modes of existence. Apart from this, one cannot even deny modes of perception expressed by other life forms. At the grandest level one need not deny the mode of being in consciousness. If movement or motion means modes of learning, then non motion would also mean to “be” in a different learning zone.

This brings the inquiry of what gives “comfort” or a sense of well being in architecture? Feelings of connect, learning, contemplation may bring about this mood in architecture. Is that form based? That is for us to discover! If one tries to understand this, then the inquiry surpasses the stylistic movements in architecture and rests on attitude of just “being”. And in this inquiry, environment, community, people, self all come into the picture.

Hari Om.

Shree: Measure

 

100922: Shree: Measure

Existence is beyond or “larger than” manifestation or expression. Whatever motion or manifestation or perception or interdependence is felt - can be said as a property of Existence. Existence is and therefore everything else is (or is apparently conceived or constructed).

Existence is; patterns are; thoughts are; intents are; tendencies exist; situations are created; feelings get generated; changes happen; visibility and dissolution happens. In all this; we are also created and intrinsically linked. Whatever patterns or nature of vibrations happen out there – also indicate the same nature within us and vice versa. So “I” am not just a mind or body but a measure of Existence. Or by the state of vibrations I generate; the measure of Existence changes.

If vibrations dissolve or made still then the measure of Existence becomes Absolute or the One and Infinite and Blissful and Unconditional.

Hence what is the measure of Existence (in other words “Being”)? Infinite and Consciousness and the One. Our perception should reach that measure.

Hari Om.

Shree: The Whole is more than sum of its parts

 

Shree: The Whole is more than sum of its parts

Motion is motion. Concentrating on a problem is not always the answer. Linearity or logic can show only a few of the points of reality and so can feelings. The sums of all dimensions that are perceived do not add up to the Truth. Summation of interdependent factors is NOT what truth is since the process of summation itself raises more variables. The process of motion and our concentration itself raises some variables that were not imagined in the equation before – so Existence is always one step ahead of manifestation! Summation creates motion or noise – not silence! This means that Truth cannot be known by deploying any factors of intellect or feelings or motion as a start point.

The question therefore becomes – what should be the start point? Start point only “is” – Existence or the One; from which all other dimensions have been born or created or constructed or vibrated or formed or perceived. So things only “are”. Existence only “is”.

Just as it is impossible to control and find an absolute answer to any known phenomenon out there – it is also the same about knowing the self. Either way, externally or internally, the picture appears incomplete. This also means that self and external perceptions are one and the same (as a property of Existence) and perhaps more than that – it can be dissolved into the One.

So relax. There is nothing wrong with anything or any aspect of motion or change or dependence or conditions.  Calmness is felt by becoming still.

Therefore, do not bother yourself by knowing all the fragments in the equation (they are increasing by the day). More fragments mean more rate of change and more need of establishing interrelationship for knowing the pattern. More fragments may perhaps create more noise everywhere and may lead to a loss of connect. I do not know how does one respond to this incoming scenario but there are a few things one can do.

First, trust that one is Divine. Second is to concentrate on becoming blissful. Thirdly to know that worth is beyond motion, no matter how much motion may increase fragmentation. Fourthly, one is not answerable to changes. Fifth, all motion is only apparently created and not absolute. Sixth, that all motion cannot touch Divinity that is the core of Existence and me. Seventh, an increased variable does not mean a thing. Eight, linearity has limitations.

Hari Om.

Shree: Practice.

 

090922: Shree: Practice.

Dear Shree.

Hari is formless. Form, perception, change (nature), visibility go hand in hand. What is visible, is perceived by the senses and is inferred by some name which is related by how we perceive the object, which changes. In short, everything is conditional and a matter of construct! The construct that we create is regarded as gross since it is the extreme perception of “separation” and that induces fear, anxiety, competition and a host of other ego inducing actions. By all this, we mean that we become conditional, we fight, we defend, we evaluate, we experience pain, we express anger, we run away from mortality, we fear. If we still see the fundamental trigger behind above mentioned actions, it is vibration that becomes force and then takes a form. Intellect and feelings (or the trigger or the intent for the same) lies with vibrations. The nature of vibrations dictates the manner of deployment of intellect and feelings. We are made to believe that intellect is everything, but it is not – since there are many things even before an intellect is felt by our mind!

If vibrations become still, then intellect and feelings become infinitely One and what one experiences is unconditional bliss.

When one considers transformation of perception (or self), then one indicates a physical and psychological transformation – the two things are interrelated or perhaps one and the same. It is for this reason that what one conceives from intellectual point of view (sequence and physical dimension) may take time for psychological dimension to catch up. Hence a gap between theory and practice exists (or say between theory and wisdom). Knowing theory is easy part of the plan! Much like a parrot learns how to say things by rote! Becoming something is much difficult and requires sustenance, effort, patience, forgiveness, acceptance and trust.

We are always becoming something – right now we have become this human being because that was what was practiced for many life times! And this practice has now created situations; relationships (perception) and we continue to practice the same!

We can practice becoming the One and that will take time. Trust is required and of course effort. It is a matter of decision, belief, trust, practice, efforts, and sustenance. It also means to become calm and trust that everything happens for good – no matter what situations or what intent and how things have materialized.

Everything is happening and becoming. Motion is. Something comes, grows, dissolves (or transforms into something else) – we say that things are born and they die but do they really? Or is that only a motion in different states? We do not know the entire picture and herein lies the limitation of our human perception. So we say being born and being dead! That need not be the case of perception. Idea diagrams are enormous expressions of wisdom that indicates this manner of becoming (or coming to the world).

This brings another question – what is progress then? If progress does not quench any of our desires, makes us more hyper or anxious or fragmented – is that really good? Incompleteness (as a nature of motion) cannot be satisfied by knowing more things or harbouring more things or talking more about interconnections! We are born in “change and interdependence and motion” – that is the fundamental experience we create. To come out of this web or to go beyond – we need to make vibrations “still”.

Hari Om.

 

Shree: Value

 

080922: Shree: Value

Compartments do not lead to a balance of life. By knowing “more stuff” at “greater speed” does not bestow calmness of spirit. In general, we should acknowledge that the problem is with us identifying with vibrations that create forces and forms – all this is a form of existence. We cannot sit idle and we keep craving for more since we continue to feel insecure and impermanent. This means more reading, more writing, more travelling, more meeting, more desires, more action…more and more at infinity!

Is there a limit to all this? By knowing something “else” or something”different” – does that (or would that) really solve a problem? Is there a problem in the first place? And what is the nature of the problem we are dealing with? This is a fundamental inquiry, since this question tries to look inward and understand what is happening deep within and how does that shape our perception?

Outward changes and identification with these are aspects of ego or perception of space and time or of many or of change or of interdependence. There is just the One motionless medium that appears (or is made visible) as “many” and attachments and egos and clinging and many other things.

How would knowing more of motion can the riddle be solved or put to rest? It cannot, since whatever we may know about – is dependent on the same nature of vibrations so limits of knowing are not enough (and neither can they be bound by external intake). One will always feel doing something, solving something, defending something, going someplace, projecting past or future, writing something, reading something, expressing something and so on. This is our current tendency or a state of existence of the mind.

Remember that none of visibility we owe anything and none of that is actually absolute. So balancing the motion and managing the pace is not the solution. By doing something at the cost of something else or by suppressing something else does not offer peace. All contradictions, if at all, should merge/ melt/ dissolve into one single concentrated force or intent that steadies the vibration. The key is to become steady in vibrations and experience non movement – do this by thought or feeling or action or anything else. Renouncing motion (distraction, desires, vibrations) is also the same thing. But ordering oneself to renounce does not get the result. Renouncing does not mean forgoing things – it means to become steady on something so everything else is dissolved (or renounced or made redundant).

In other words, becoming a value larger than life is necessary and only this can give one bliss. To be involved with and talk about values is much greater than to be worried about desires, security and mind/body perception. Motion cannot be quenched by anything and worry only worsens the situation or the pace of motion. By focusing on any aspect of motion does not yield any peaceful result. Focus on the value and become steady. This will dissolve everything else and consciousness is realized.

Hari Om.

Shree: Experience

 

080922: Shree: Experience

Experience – is an inner world of feelings. There is no need to justify or say anything. Perception of motion and visibility is an external generated activity through the link with the inner vibrations. Intellect may inquire about “how” is the link defined and accordingly go within the self.

Become calm amidst the motion and change. All of motion is not what we are or what defines us. Motion is coming from the One and all of us are born from it, so the link can never go away (or it persists) and God has held one of our hands. If all comes from Divine, then the idea of separation is false and so is insecurity or competition. Doing for a purpose is a false assumption.

I am God and that is what all is. Or God only IS and not “me” as motion.

Phenomenology, psychology and philosophy are interrelated – quite seamless in fact. And architecture may be said as an extension (primarily of outside environment) of the earlier three fields. All manifestation of architecture comes from the depth of mindscape and hence “values” of universal truth become more important to manifest than the individual desires.

Desire may be heightened as one becomes more aloof or individual and they get quenched as one becomes Universal. It is a state of mind – calmness or hyper. All of our actions should enhance calmness and that seems to be the key of intent.

Hari Om.

Shree: history

 

070922: Shree: history

history becomes important when one starts to feel that something interdependent dimension has changed or is lost forever. we have already been fractured beyond repair - internally - mostly by wrong notions of individualism, belief in technology or idea of progress, multi tasking, distractions of all kinds, "noise" and many things. at least previously the focus used to be on any one Principle on which basis things used to be spoken or articulated to discussed or expressed - from indigenousness to memory to progress to modernism to deconstruction. All these terms indicate increase in fractured mindscape and heightened individualism. we pay a cost for making us believe in individualism when we say that nothing is interdependent.

our birth and perception is interdependent - the notion of "I" keeps changing with time. in one dimension we may consider this as a struggle to fight and make "I" full proof and permanent. we cannot since existence means change and all aspects of motion is ours too.

the fractures have been so intense that even to find a Principle seems like a daunting task. and in this state to do anything seems pretty useless to offer any anchor. we work with an intent. the intent needs to be anchored, else whatever we see will cause further distortion within us.

memory is fractured too. we do not remember any values or let it guide us and what we keep remembering is distortion, chaos, fragmentation - anxiety and stress. thus objects, change, space, time are an output of what we choose to generate internally.

this is to be remembered and tools to be invented so as to generate an anchor within us in today's times.

so trust and patience needs to be inculcated - again. Fight is internal. And it is possible to become blissful - again. Work is required.

Hari Om.

Shree: purpose of architecture

 

060922: Shree: purpose of architecture

all things are interconnected - meaning they reveal the same One but in different positions depending on how or where one is focusing. visibility is motion and change and interdependence and senses taken to highest frequency or intensity. since vibration is a property of existence - things become visible and dissolve. a motion is set by intent and any kind of thought or action. this relationship of motion to forms, forces, vibrations exist till consciousness is also realized. the separation is an illusion and this creates "many" as a state of existence (or perception). we call this relationship as "identity" - is it individual and differentiated or universal and the One?

identity is anything which is formed by any definition of a variable. if there is no variable, there is no motion and there is only consciousness. variables make forms and differentiation  and accelerated rate of change.

the developed society can be spoken in terms of mindscape - too many variables, too much differentiation, too much heightened sense of individuality, hence too much anxiety + stress + fear + feeling of loss and purpose of existence. individualism is a myth and the more one tries to make oneself "different", it has repercussions on thoughts, systems, technology, behaviour, society and all dimensions of human existence. the assumption of we being different by default has disastrous effects on the manner in which knowledge is seen, deployed or put to use on how problems and solutions are created.

any action or thought that encourages values, universal connect is encouraged and all manifestations (say architecture) ought to come from that central stand point.  architecture is not for the individual but for the fundamental experience of collective or transcendental.

Hari Om.

Shree: Inner World

 

050922: Shree: Inner World

Shree is the best teacher!

stillness and making vibrations steady is what is required to become the One. The One is always there - we vibrate in some other frequency that makes us create and perceive "perception" (of self, situations, change, forces, forms, change, impermanence and so on). in order that the One is felt, all vibrations should focus only on the One - becoming Unconditional.

since we vibrate, we think and feel and make forms and perceive them too - which means things become visible to us and separated and see "many" forms that keep changing and keep remaining interdependent. "seeing" is a state of mind - either many or of the One.

In the same way, space and time can either become visible or become the One. the functions of our senses can take a "form" of motion or the senses can be directed to feel the One.

directed inwards is what is required - of senses, vibrations so that the "invisible" is seen.

hence invisibility, non movement, steadiness, blissfulness and dissolving all motions means to turn the gaze "inwards" and become the One. this is to go against the tide of the motion and hence it requires constant effort. in other words, this is also called renunciation of motion.

therefore as one becomes extroverted, notions get constructed, more separation occurs, more movement is felt, more emphasis on senses is stressed, more dependence is felt, more visibility is seen, more noise is felt and so on.

i think that the medium is always "One" and not many. this is so because even in the world of motion, things change and remain interdependent and cyclic. we cannot think separately of anything and our actions affect the universe and vice versa. it is a kind of an echo or a mirror. this is existence and we are only knowing the form of consciousness in different states. as one goes inwards, interdependence, conditions, change, visibility also exist but in different states or intensities.

hence go inwards, since it will reveal an inner world.

Hari Om.

Shree: Anchor

 

Shree: Anchor

Anchor….everyone these days talks about some anchor to make sense of the world or of existence around us. Included in this concern, are questions of change, rate of change, inside-outside, tendencies, patterns, individual and the collective, the concept of I, constructs, impermanence and so on. Whatever one thinks, it still bound to cause certain disturbance of self – probably this is a learning process.

But intellect is our anchor – the introspection and the dilemma it senses of perception – is the fundamental human anchor – else we would drift and be like animals. Hence impermanence, variety, change, dilemma is to be considered as an integral experience of anchor – something we have to be engaged with since we are born and expressed as humans by consciousness. It should also make us realize the limitation of ego and the potential to just “be” and change our behavior accordingly. Also the realization of “many” as a state of mind and the One – as the absolute existence. Then the dialog is also about purpose and focus and what is meant to live blissfully.

Let this inner dialog continue and take you to the heights of realization! I do not think that dilemma and contradictions are any hindrance of growth – rather they are learning experienc4es to go beyond. This is the path – with all dents and thorns. This is sent by God to us. Accept it.

Hari Om.

Shree: Path

 

040922: Shree: Path

Thinking is relative. Separation is relative and a state of mind. Life is relative. All dimensions of motions cause these effects, which are also relative. Behind all this, is the consciousness which generates movement. Creation is therefore born (aspect of) out of consciousness and physically it means motion of vibrations, forces and forms (change).

I do not think that it is worth to think of tendencies to a great extent so as to cause some self harm or induce some expectations of control. The notion of ‘I’ is a fundamental notion to be transcended.

‘I’ is change, interdependence, vibrations, perceptions, movement, dimension of space-time and a construct/ illusion. As long as this notion exists, perception and all thoughts + feelings exist. From this aspect any thought is like a chain of attachment. However some vibrations are “preferred” over others as they cut the barriers of ego or dissolve the ego. It hardly matters what motion is and what it makes you do. It hardly matters to motion what you think. But motion and you are intricately linked. This means two things – firstly we are conditioned by motion so we remain worried and fearful of change – this represents the basic and the grossest state of existence. Secondly we are NOT the change as we believe, so our attainment of Bliss ought to become unconditional and hence through motion we should reach that state. This means to be able to renounce motion and expand the mind and make it subtle enough that movement does not arise. This represents the highest state of the One.

This calls for practice and patience. Every now and then things appear quite painful and cause agony. The point is – why does it happen and why take it so personally? Also the point is that agony is self created, so is there a state of existence even above what one feels and thinks? Do feelings and thoughts come from some kind of Higher/ better/ tranquil state of existence? And if yes, can one permanently be in such a Higher state? The more this inquiry becomes deep rooted, the search for such a state accelerates and a path is made visible for us.

We have the ability to create a path and a movement in that direction. All depends on our decision, commitment and trust.

Hari Om.

Shree: Becoming Blissful

 

Shree: Becoming Blissful

In what way words would be interpreted and finally instigate some deep vibrations of a phenomenon (person) and again come back to us and how we hear it – is a mystery. From that perspective, we choose to say things based on how we want our vibrations to be (and not how vibrations compel us to say something).

As is the case with existence and motion – all phenomena appear or materialize nevertheless and in whatever time, frequency and space they wish to appear. All movements are from the One and we think we may have any control and we may have any expectations from these movements! Since we ourselves are interdependent and changeable phenomenon, we are not absolute enough to demand anything at all! Who are we angry with? There is no “other” there in absolute terms to absorb our anger and then to respond. The whole thing is interconnected so the anger (or any force or any vibration) is bound to affect the whole of existence and not just me or you. It comes around – whatever you do and by this I mean that what I think, changes me irrevocably. When I change, the world changes. This is the only idea of constructive change. I and the world are no different – it is the same fabric.

So it is upto us – should we feel separated or can we move beyond and act from values only? We are always becoming something as per vibrations. The “cure” (if at all as a word to be used) is to concentrate enough so that vibrations become absolutely still and the One is realized and “we” dissolve. Because there is “we”, there is the world of pleasure and pain and attachments and compulsions. This is a self crafted story.

The more this is accepted, the more we may become blissful, unconditional and act out of pure love. It is all about becoming Blissful – there is no such thing as life and death in absolute terms.

Hari Om.

Shree: consciousness as space and time

 

030922: Shree: consciousness as space and time

Existence is. In existence, there is perception. Perception means mind and body (or vibrations) or movement and including how we see movement and respond to the same and our generation of movement itself. In a nutshell, the entire fabric is one continuous phenomenon that has vibrations, state of mind and body, situations, people, relationship and so on. We call that illusion or a construct or existence.

It is upto us how we allow perception to inform us. That way perception and ‘me’ are the same coin but spoken from different stand points. Hence again, the talk of existence as an experience or feelings or intellectual analysis has no start point or a separated point and is always in cycles – a kind of a loop.

As one thinks about it and tries to change perception and apply it in the mode of existence, there is bound to be dilemma, struggle, contradiction, pain, ego, defense, revelation, work, tendencies, feelings, change and so on – all this is movement. Guilt, incompleteness, pain, acceptance also comes into picture. All these are aspects of vibrations and they create situations or forms that we perceive. Hence any form “out there” is seen differently in terms of perception. It may generate any kind of thought in a person, for which, we need not be worried about or logic cannot communicate a complete answer. Reversely, any kind of vibration in a person may generate any situation for which, he/she would be required to be engaged with. And thirdly the above two things are one and the same.

So the whole point is what is to be worried about if there exist Potential to become which is outside any logical control?! The present as we see right now is mouldable, changeable, keeps changing and is a gateway or a battle ground to become motionless or the One. All is in fact only the One perceived as “many” by us.

We ourselves do not know the deep impressions that are within us that have caused the current momentum of life for us and from what stand point a particular nature of response or engagement is coming. If this is the case, then why expect something from “an instant” or why base the whole point of response or perception on “current” life?! Whatever seems current (in terms of space and time) can be said as a response or perception. This idea or experience changes even in dream state and in deep state – so that way there is no difference when eyes are wide awake or they are shut – since we operate from vibrations. The thing to be considered is the internal vibrations and not our senses or the brain.

Thus we see space and time based on a state of vibration. We can perceive space and time in other dimensions if this vibration changes and finally we may become something wherein space and time appear as completely still.

In other words consciousness is space and time in a different form and absolute form and the One.

Hari Om.