Shree: Bliss

 

240123: Shree: Bliss

 

We do not fully understand the intent of how things become perceivable and how our actions result into something of a situation. Trying to control such connections causes fear and stress and pain. Understanding intent of motion (or a situation or a context or a person) is difficult and depends on our own intent and hence it remains temporary, changes and may be distorted. That goes for everything about manifestation.

 

By over thinking, no matter how honest we may be, we perhaps spoil the simplicity of existence and create doubt. Who gets harmed? Us, of course.

In what manner people say things and what they mean and what it means to you is very relative and not straight forward clear cut logic. There may be several layers of intents or sequences that make people say, think or do things in particular manner and there are again several layers of intents through which we perceive something that happens before us. All these layers are not perceivable to us many times and hence the entire cause of something cannot be known. Now is that a problem?! By basing our inferences on logic or tangible things, we make a mistake to remain conditional and create self harm, since our perception has limitations of comprehending the whole. Now the question is why should we force ourselves to know the whole? Is it to control, is it about peace, is it about permanence, and is it about avoiding pain? So there seems to be a condition to evaluate a situation and resist whatever otherwise a situation is presenting itself as.

 

Another mistake we commit is to consider ourselves separated as some special being. Self is never separated and is always relational to something else. In other words, all is interconnected and represents only the One medium that causes motion to take place and hence some causes and effects and the urge to respond and we want to fix things! There is always something before and after anything – meaning there is a varying identity to anything. Thus we have a fundamental choice here. What should be the nature of our actions? Who acts? What is the cause? What therefore becomes of space and time?

 

Architecturally, for whom do we conceive spaces – for entire environment or only for us? And am I really separated from environment? If this question is taken deeply within us, then it would reveal some sort of relation of intent with thoughts with feelings with actions with activities with spaces. So what is the frame of reference for architecture? And this will define quality of architecture (not the visible technology or process or global warming or materials or production or optimization or anything). This therefore gets expressed in forms of architecture from indigenous to rural to urban and so on. The noble intent requires no context to materialize – it can get expressed under any context (or it can define the context itself!). Temple architecture, for example seems to have a form that has perhaps little to do with site context or any particular conditions of site. Symmetries of any kind or axes also seem to take a stand not defined on any particular visible site forces. Should it be so? Do not the forms of temples indicate a collective value or a mindscape that gets expressed on a stage of the visible site? Does not the enclosed courtyard found in any climate and culture indicates something profound regardless of any cultural and geographical definitions? Does not this response indicate a force that finds expression onto something outside?

 

Space and time compel us to do many things – an unstoppable pressure to remain engaged. If only we can learn to relax and do what we like to do regardless of any outcome, the pressure may ease off. There is no need to assume and worry about anything. Things happen when they have to, they appear and go away and we are where we are. Things are said, they are perceived and they are responded.  Things are never personal, vibrations are never personal, manifestation is never personal and responses are never personal. This requires realization. There is no such thing as knowing everything for a perfect control. All is about only pure instantaneous living.

 

Not knowing anything tangible and yet being blissful is a gift to become. It is a lesson that is to be learnt – blissful existence has nothing to do with doing anything purposefully! How fast, how slow, where, when, why, what are required to be immaterial questions. However we must start asking these questions so we can eventually move beyond.

 

Hari Om.