Shree: The role of feelings

 

Shree: The role of feelings

 

I do not need to know the past or future to do something out of love at the given moment! This is the strength of love – that it can be perfectly unconditional, non linear and empathetic and all connecting. Knowing the variables of connections of change and of past and future do not generate love automatically or even logically or even consequently! Living a perfect life is not equivalent in loving the self and others!

 

Love is fundamental. In architecture for me, it means what should I do while designing an environment that can generate this feeling? The approach comes to designing a movement, sequence, being aware of the “presence” of everything around you and becoming calm within space-time matrix. This means I should start anywhere and do whatever it takes to get that feeling – forms of manifestation (or styles of any kind) are immaterial. In design studios, can’t one therefore perceive forms in this manner instead of comparing and adhering to what looks “acceptable”? The feeling of love is more fundamental than what is built or seen or said or acted upon. The feeling is perceiving a state of existence.

 

Lot of talk and progress of theory and practice and day to day living seem to go in opposition to what is fundamental! What use is of theory or practice if it fails to generate love?

 

Order, discipline, systems have also driven societies to deadly uniformity and sterility and uneasiness and anonymity and numbness or placelessness. Ordering of feelings and keeping them under some compartments is more horrible. By compartmentalizing feelings, one compartmentalizes moments of existence and even avoids certain experiences or situations or people that would have otherwise healed you along the way! Why does one do this?

 

This is an intimate inquiry. And this is done as a response of ego. Defending oneself against change is one of ego’s top priorities. By structuring things and variables, it emphasizes refinement, fastness, permanence, control and so on. It emphasizes permanence and something that is predictable and easy to control. It is opposite of “life”!

 

Certain conditions – such as young ones or elder’s health are beyond ego’s control. None of the fields of inquiry are able to deal with situations – what is required is acceptance and understanding of existence with love. If one has this awareness, then one becomes blissful. Herein too, one is assuming something in the spectrum of perception of control and anything that lies beyond (say past lives or inner world) as something beyond control and even not worth pondering! If one does not perceive “something”, that does not mean “it” doesn’t exist! And the only way to acknowledge the presence of this “something” is to trust it without any parameters of perception. And by this, we learn to trust everything. Hence trust becomes more important than perception.

 

Hari Om.