Shree: Thoughts from the web

 

Shree: Thoughts from the web

What comes first – the egg or the chicken? This is the nature of motion. There is no start point or one sequence or a definite end point and perhaps the start point is only a link in an endless or a repetitive set of events. At the same time, the egg comes from where? And the egg becomes the chicken one day who lays the egg again! So the egg has a potential of becoming a chicken who also has the seed of becoming an egg which is also embedded with the seed of becoming a chicken! So the “seed” grows and changes and evolves and repeats and is the one fundamental substance behind everything of motion. Can the seed be seen or perceived? Definitely not visually. But if it is not visually present, does it mean it does not exist?! Then what is “existence”? Ss it a form or a force of change or vibration or only Being? And one can “see” a “form”, but how to feel a force and vibration and Being? So is the “form” real or is it the force or a vibration or consciousness? If a form vanishes or dissolves, does it mean anything as an “end” or will it reappear in a different way somewhere else and does the vanishing mean anything to the web? So this coming and going of forms – does it make any difference to the seed or the ocean or the medium of One?

In the same way, we see some extinct species kept in a museum. These are fossils or some “forms” existing at some place and at some time under some conditions. People may say why to study these? The fundamental question herein is – why is past regarded to be considered? The question is equally applicable for any sort of historical inquiry of any phenomenon. History is absolutely irrelevant for those who only seem to concentrate on the “formal” aspects of phenomenon. To those who concentrate on tendencies, forces, influences, variables, connections, history will “repeat itself in a new way” and the issues will appear to be the same – hence history becomes a gateway to know our contemporary issues and in that sense, history becomes “alive”. The study of forms is irrelevant if it does not unlock the doors to forces or connections and consciousness. Again seen in a reverse way, “something creates” a form in a given fabric of space and time. Therefore, this “something” is important and perhaps remains constant in eternity creating or manufacturing a web of motion that appear as forces and forms.

Related to above thoughts is our tendency of choosing the “best” out of everything with the hope that things will be resolved and stability will be achieved. This answer is to be discovered for there are many dimensions to this approach. If choosing is from forces or forms then the output is disappointment. If choosing is to sieve out the irrelevant aspects of change and focusing on stable eternal medium, then the result is transformation.

Hari Om.