Shree: Why should it matter?

 

221222: Shree: Why should it matter?

 

Classifications are tending to be a pain in the neck - labeling, sorting, evaluating, dismissing, reinforcing and so on. Why should any experience be quickly defined under some category and acted on? Why not ruminate on it? It is a terrible thing to be tempted to freeze or define an experience, label it and act on the same immediately - sometimes so fast that one imagines the label even before any experience has occurred! Or the label defines the experience and chucks out possibilities of other thoughts to “emerge”. Are we in this age where we superimpose our own mindscapes or patterns onto the space-time fabric? Philosophically we do it all the time; else we would not have perceived existence. However the crucial difference between “higher” or “recommended” perception over “mundane” or “restrictive” perception is this: one experience emerges and does not define us and gives a very multidimensional, ambiguous, grey picture of existence (a potential of being), whereas the other hurries into bracketing the world into a fixed frame and does not let the mind see anything else!  Why should it matter if we do not know what a thought means and what it seems to generate within us? Why should it matter that the thought was not defined before? Why should it matter that things appear chaotic when they appear? Why should it matter that silence can be valued over and above noise? Why should it matter that things cannot be confirmed? Why should it matter that things cannot be worked out “as per plan?” Why should it matter that quality may take its own time as compared to quantity?

 

Think about it. I am not really sure that our ancestors were ever bothered about questions of critique that we seem to face today. Was “discussion” ever possible in pre modern times and if there was some collective discussion on the way of going about doing things, what were the central concerns that were continued or valued? How was the environment encountered? How did that shape the memory? And is that the reason that origins of any value cannot be traced and are always referred to either the ancestor or God? It would be another story to understand the evolution of perception from hominids to sapiens to homo sapiens to homo homo sapiens. Some of these memories we carry and propel us to perceive environments in the manner we do.

 

However, with more information and fragmentation at our disposal, we have become consumers of information and find it even harder to not let a thought be formed as anything.

 

Watch out!

 

Hari Om.