Shree: Two ways of looking at the world

There two ways of perceiving existence. inside - outside perspective and outside - inside perspective.

Intuition, feelings, philosophy, psychology, traditions, cultural ideas, rhizomatic thinking are ways of thinking inside-outside. It is not important what is present outside as much as what one feels inside and how one then makes sense of the world of forms or of space and time. It is perhaps the presence of consciousness one feels that just expresses for its own self. There is no point to be made, no justification, no separation and all seems one or inter related. Books such as A Pattern Language, Timeless Way of Building, Primitive Architecture, Form and Feelings, Eyes of the Skin, Places of The Soul – and many more perhaps point to that way of seeing things.

The outside-inside perspective tries to analyse, dissect, fragment, refine, control variables. Intellect is at a premium and hence it follows that justification, evaluation and clarification are kept at a premium. Things are required to be in black and white, with purposes and linearity and causal effects and history as an idea. The purpose is to “fix” something (defining and locating a problem) and then maintaining a cycle of evaluation, assessment and then fixing it again.

It seems in the evolution of humanity we seem to have moved from inside-outside perspective to outside-inside perspective with huge costs. Contemporarily societies work at both perspectives – some dipping to one side more and all in fact have a role to play.

But the most important fact is about trust and revelation of “being in the world” that probably comes from inside-outside perspective. Herein there is no comparison but only awareness of differences without trying to fix anything and by expressing one’s encounter with differences that one sees. It makes sense to live or exist in this world view for all you know, you might encounter bliss!

Hari Om.

 

 

Shree

 

Shree

It is not necessary to run and fix things and base our validation on that. The point of validation stems from separation or thinking at a deeper level of the disconnect with God.

The word disconnect is not intellectually possible to respond. Disconnection happens only because the connection is beyond the language of feelings and intellect and it involves steadying the vibrations. Hence is it causal relationship or logical or something else – is a matter of exploration and not of analysis for achieveing any perfection in manifestation. The more one thinks, one believes that the control of a start point will lie by doing this or that or here or there or at this time and at this place….this is the mind’s behaviour – unsteadiness. This is not a fault, except one ought to be aware of this tendency and not get carried away by what is thrown as imagination by the intellect. That being said, it also means that following above suggestion literally is also not intended! Neither this nor that – then what to do? Then is that a vacuum or a full stop? That would be a further blunder on our understanding!

An intellect comes to a vacuum – as a response but a vacuum in reality does not exist in consciousness. Hence the idea is to become steady in the wavering experience of life and that mean transcendence, which the intellect only says it as a word but it has to be made to realize. And not only the intellect, but the entire being.

Hari Om.

Shree: Effort

 

Shree: Effort

Effort is all that matters – not necessarily they give intended results and not necessarily they give success; yet faith in doing and becoming steady and expanding the self is required. This cannot stop. A stoppage means a ‘vacuum’ which does not exist in the medium of consciousness. Hence whatever gets done, is by multiple forces that are related as a web and they stay forever connected. In this connection and the journey to become steady, there is a contradiction – of believing to manifest and to transcend the manifestation process. One can say that this contradiction brings about evolution of the mind and continues creation. In our experience, it means “struggle” and the effort to understand and diffuse the self created struggle.

This is mysterious as a journey and hence we have a combination of effort and grace; althought truthfully admitting – all creation happens in the Home of God.

Hari Om.

Shree

 

Shree

Introspection of our existence works. It is more than a causal relationship. At times, we are in serious doubt about this journey and thoughts that occur and what can be done forward. But if the habit of introspection continues, then answers get revealed subsequently, if not at that instant but sometime later. This is trust. The answer may lie anywhere – in space or time or person or situation or event or feeling or intellect or any dimension of manifestation. Now it is a given scenario that we live in this world of phenomena where we see change, are dependent and are required to deploy intellect, feelings and form of body “in this journey”. These dimensions may generate a sense of belongingness and attachment (I) and it is upto us to let go off the intent of these dimensions. This will happen eventually.

How this happens is not clear and is a process in itself. Clarity is only in harnessing the reality of Truth and the journey is meant for the same. The nature of the journey is a matter of discovery. Discovery is a birth right and hence it will always be evolving and no matter what may be the precedents or situations in the past and whatever may happen in the future, it is “not” any indicator or a compulsion of what I must do. There is nothing like “must”. It is decided to the best of capacity and that is all there is to it.

Perfection and control over things in absolute sense is not required – not even preparation and defense. In the spirit of existence we say and do many things and “points” appear very “grey” in their nature – intermingled, fleeting and changing. To base any conclusion on those points mean limitations and whatever people say or do or insist or whatever I may think, is all incidental to this phenomenon. Still things will happen and ought to happen.

Happen is a vibration and manifestation – an action – indicating “presence” and “potential” of Existence. This, we ought to remember whatever it takes and whatever it makes us undergo.

Not all things can be made explicit or clear to self or anything else. Clarity is a created or imagined demand, but not absolute, so there is plenty of room to navigate. Once in this journey, there is no looking back – the way ahead is “now”.

Hari Om.

Shree

 

Shree

Forgetting the Truth is not the same as causal relationship. In causal relationship as a sentence or a thought, one can say that consciousness generates vibrations and then forces and then forms but while saying so is it causal relationship and is there a start point and a linear way of leading to a form? Thinking further one can then talk about perception governed by each of these states and scales and changes and intent of actions and what kind of reality gets generated. The form is the most gross and pointed affair, whaeas the vibrations tend to be highly subtle and at a grand scale and having almost zero change. Yet to become such states or to go from the form to consciousness is not based on causal relationships alone or is not just a logical thing and since we think through vibrations or thoughts, we tend to base our actions on above causal assumptions. The automatic change born out of realization is a matter of grace or trust, wherein of course the role of effort is there backed up fundamentally by the grace of God or the presence of Existence. Since you and I are here and since a phenomenal world ‘exists’; it is a sure sign of Absolute Existence, as this world depends ENTIRELY on the Absolute Truth. Yet how much of this have we forgotten! And to “forget” is a process of manifesting or of getting created and being engaged in a loop of actions born from imagination or perception. We say that we have manifested which means we have ‘forgotten something’. Therefore forgetting is a state of being and remembering is a state of being the Truth. Is this a causal or a comparative thing? I forget this or I remember that? This is only a word. But what does it mean when I forget the Truth and what does it mean when the Truth is acknowledged?

The entire journey of becoming blissful is on the aspect of forgetting and remembering as modes of Existence.

From that aspect, manifestation happens (is an action of God’s presence) and phenomenon will eternally be present – born, change and dissolve. So I am manifested which means I undertake this journey of being in this world, which is inherited from God.

Hari Om.

Shree

 

Shree

The intellect has a given “speed” of creation – that of variables, sequences and inferences. This speed is a function of force of intellect itself. It follows that creation then has a way of “happening” or manifesting – such as intellect, feelings, forms and each of these have a character of their own and are also interdependent. Hence depending on the operation mechanism of an individual, one perceives manifestation in a particular way and describes temporariness or the eternal in that way. One’s temporariness, if explained as a function of mechanism, may not be understood by the other. However, if one abstracts these characters and comes to the fundamental, then the Truth may get revealed. Hence the same Truth operates in different ways for different people (which is what the entire idea of creation is).

Despite the convincing or expressions or justifications one offers, the other may not understand the intent of expression (or definitely understands intent in a different way). This is natural, to be accepted as a beginning, so conflicts can be seen incidental and not really absolute. Then there may be seen a way to go beyond conflict and reach the fundamental. This requires time and patience.

Is this an individual journey? It starts perhaps individually but becomes universal in spirit eventually.

Hari Om.

Shree: Drifting

 

Shree: Drifting

Some days are organic – as if one swims according to where the tide takes one. The subject, concerns, intents, actions can drift in any direction and that is all ok I feel. Some of the things which were felt today during conversations were –

Things are clear in one’s mind does not necessarily mean they are imagined in the same sequence and meaning by others. This means that despite clarity of expression from your end, a person may be required to take his/her time for digesting what has been communicated in intent. The more important learning is that it should not mean anything personal about “how” things were communicated and exchanged – neither to the person nor to you. One need not feel offended in what manner communication transpires and that exchange is in no way required to be evaluated or judged or labelled. In any case it happens ‘by default’ (this evaluation) YET, one should train to suspend this subtle thought of evaluation. Again, this may mean sometimes things are reuired to be said logically, sequentially, metaphorically and so on  - there is no fixed rule to this.

Also, it is not at all binding to prove a point or a difference of opinion  - this is a false notion and why is this notion entertained is a mystery – just like many other things that get unnecessarily entertained and casue serious self harm and a burden. I am not responsible for any change and neither am I the change. If change happens, it is all incidental and whatever change happens is always required, despite whatever one may feel about one’s role! In other words, ‘relax’.

The third point is that there are always going to be pressures of time, space, action and existence – but all of this is a construct and it depends on what gives ‘peace’ to an individual. However peace is not a personal idea – it is an experience that ought to raise connection with the environment. In what manner it raises a connection is entirely a matter of intuition and highly relative and one formula may not at all be applicable for the other person. For one person, it may all be about time management; but for the other it may be entirely about feelings. Both are valid and both are required to be seen as valid positions of knowing and becoming the Truth.

The fourth point is that during discussions, one may realize that one does not have any answers to anything at present and almost all things are required to be discovered. That does not mean that one has lost the time; or what was done preciously was foolish or what ought to be done henceforth should be done immediately to bring about a change or anything else for that matter. Realization is about essense of Being and not about subsequent perception of past and future. One does not lose any time or gain time – all is already there. One only realizes. One only ought to become steady.

The fifth point is that some way or the other people communicate concerns happening at a very deeper level. This means deeper feelings have some mysterious ways of surfacing and as they surface, their character changes. If you hear only the surfacing of words, then the entire point may get missed. If you are relaxed and observing of what seems to be happening then the concerns are ‘felt’ and that generates empathy between the two people. This feeling of empathy is a glue in relationships. It should be felt, regardless of any situation. Again how that happens, is a mystery.

One can see the above things from philosophical perspective. All things one sees, observes is happening from the point of view of one’s existential being – the vibrations dictate the manner in which one interprets situations. Now these are reuired to become steady, only then the angle of empathy and transcendence would materialize in the self. This perhaps may not mean to gain experience by years (although that may also happen), but it is also a conscious training to the mind. Finally existence works its ways through us – it has to be accepeted

Hari Om.

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Shree

With time and differing contexts, one sees or experiences architecture (or the idea of connection) in different ways. Central idea is of connecting and expanding beyond/ transcending.

Geography and tribals seem one way in which any physical space is seen as a medium to transcend – or having a connection with myth. What we say as ‘myth’ is one way of accessing an experience far remote that it predates even traditions and only suggests a hazy picture (to the modern intellect) of cosmogony/ ancestors/ values/ connections and so on. By this we can say that anything that becomes ‘definite/ scientific/ physical’ as a form (maths or logic) has limitations of how much it can offer a peak into the past and future. Beyond a certain point of mindscape, logic or maths has to break down, since space and time do not appear or perform based on what logic reveals. Hence the mind has to “bend” or “mould” to go beyond logic. This is what philosophy concludes when one expands beyond the measure of body and thoughts. Logic and feelings are derivatives of existential motion and hence subjected to some laws and limitations. Beyond those laws is transcendence and faith.

The second idea is an absolute intangible entity that descends to create a tangible form. The Tao philosophy or Upanishads lay enormous clues in this direction. However the philosophy cannot be “applied” as it is – one has to learn or discover the message of philosophy.

The third idea is to connect with feelings that are very fundamental to life forms. In contemporary world, wherein we operate as designers, this maybe one fundamental idea to explore and thereby “act” out of love and empathy. In architecture, architects such as Louis Kahn suggest that all architecture can be condensed to three fundamental feelings  - (a) that of moving on a street and hence connecting what one sees as one moves; (b) interacting with life forms as one moves and (c) just a sense of being calm in that space. As people and designers, to generate a feeling of love is fundamental and all programs, solutions and built products ought to stem from this feeling and nothing else.

Hari Om.

Shree: Presence of the Past

 

Shree: Presence of the Past

In what way does subtleness affects sequences and visibility is beyond current intellect’s potential. This is to be accepted with full faith.

What a nice thing if one remembers values of connection, silence, tranquility, movement, climate, life forms….that can guide one eternally to create anything! Of course, creation starts with God (as nature of His Being); we can contribute to harness tranquility.

I am not so particular about cleanliness and systems – they may mean suppresion of variety, absolute control, strong hierarchy, and barrenness of the mind and disrespect for memory or anything of the past.

I am only suggesting here what conditions and peceptions one has about one’s own environment and the answer to this may lie in deep recesses of civilizations from myth, traditions, culture and what that reflects as actions, activites, art and architecture. If one ‘sees’ a temple, one is sure that the origin of this building type is rooted maybe even in prehistoric times and that is one way in which the Past talks to us or makes Its presence relevant today. The cave paintings for example, done in 8000 BCE (Bhimbetka) can suggest how we seem to have arrived ‘now’.

So it all depends on how is this ‘I’ perceived and what is the role of memory in this? Is ‘I’ always there as past-present-future or is it only tied with present time?

Hari Om.

Shree: Feelings

 

Shree: Feelings

Feelings are already there. Existence is there and that reflects as feelings or is “felt” as feelings. Feelings have a character of their own and depending on that character/ nature a “form” or a situation becomes visible (comes into visual property) that suggests a particular scale, proportion, quality of space and time. Hence whatever one “sees” is possible due to certain “feelings” that have led into the creation of the sight. Now if one sees with universal feelings then it is possible for one to connect with everything around him/her. I say, can we start looking at objects, phenomena, situations, individuals, genders etc as feelings? This means feelings lead to so many different objects, whereas the source of everything ought to be One Truth. Worth remembering this.

We “already exist”; so we keep generating and erupting something – many things erupt, but perhaps feelings are extremely profound that start from most subtle and invisible and universal scale to more gross, concrete and visible scales. So visibility means wavering set of feelings that create some boundary – beyond which currently we seem at a loss to relate to the unknown. So our responses become bounded (and therefore incomplete). All of us are “made or created” from unknown and all of us connect to the unknown and each of creation. It is said that remembering God (as the Truth of Existence) can help us connect back and become the unknown. However “remembering” also needs to be backed by the quality of complete surrender/ faith/ trust; only then can it achieve what is expected.

In that sense of reality, we don’t forget anything, since we already exist. There are states of existences which is what is continued or what becomes of us. This thought requires digestion. Trust.

Hari Om.

Shree: Being at Home

 

 

Shree: Being at Home

Positive thoughts are important – they may appear evolving, incomplete, doubtful, interconnected and many other things or coming from God – but they ought to become steady and reveal consciousness.

Anything that is done as an action or is built as a ‘form’ or expressed as a ‘poem’ comes from invisible layers of being. The intent of form depends on intent of existence – hence the scale, proportion, movement, textures, elements, openings and so on. Form by default is “not there” as a template – we discover it by defining the intent of being. Nothing is there in fact, which means anything can be there as long as the intent gets synthesized and expresses itself.

The Being expresses Itself and hence the same capacity we have, since we are created from the Being. Creation has certain properties or character and hence those also materialize in us (intellect, feelings, body and their relationships, dependences, connections and inside-outside awareness and vibrations). This is God’s Home and all forms that are at Home exist as phenomenon of space and time. Knowing this, I am a phenomenon and hence I can create anything. For creation obviously, trust is required for becoming steady.

Hari Om.

श्री: कार्य

 

श्री: कार्य

शक्ति आणि अस्तित्व आहे. जे काही आहे इथे, जि काही गती आहे, जे काही बदल आहे, जे काही विचार आहेत, जे कार्य घडत आहे, जि काही चिंता आहे, जो काही प्रयत्न आहे, जे काही स्वीकारणे आहे – ते भगवंताच्या शक्तिमुळे आहे. सर्व वस्तूंची निर्मिती – द्वैत आणि त्याचे परिणाम, त्या अद्वैत भगवन्तामुळे होत राहते.

मी कोण मला माहीत नाही; हि शक्ति काय मला माहीत नाही; मी कुठे जाणार हे माहीत नाही; पुढे काय होणार आहे माहीत नाही; बदल कसे समोर येणार आहेत माहीत नाही; कार्याचा परिणाम काय होणार आहे माहीत नाही; गोष्टींचा मुळ कुठून येतो माहीत नाही – हे सर्व  गोष्टी मला/ विचारांना/ बुद्धीला माहीत नाहीत.

तर प्रश्न असा आहे कि “काय बिघडत जर माहीत नसल तरीही?” का हा अट्टाहास माहीत असण्याचा आणि गोष्टी बरोबर नमूद करण्याचा आणि सगळीकडे नियंत्रण आणण्याचा?

हा प्रश्न अध्यात्मिक स्तरावर आत्मसाद करायला हवा, बुद्धीने नाही. वरील प्रश्नांचा अर्थ असा आहे कि सर्व भगवंताकडे सोपवा आपला अनुभव आणि प्रवास आणि आनंदी रहा. ते कस, कुठे, कुठल्यापद्धातीने, कधी, कुणामुळे, केव्हा, कश्यासाठी, वगैरे प्रश्नांच्या प्रभावांच्या पलीकडे येणे गरजेच आहे – आणि  ते ही एक सूक्ष्म शक्तिच रसायन आहे. सूक्ष्म ह्याचा अर्थ असा कि उत्तरांची अपेक्षा न धरता त्या शक्तीवर श्रद्धा वाढवणे; त्याच अस्तित्व आत्मसाद करणे;  त्याच सारख चिंतन करणे; शुद्ध होत जाणे. बदल, मी, गती, आकार, होणे – हे सर्व भागवान्तामुळे आहे. जे काही होईल ते चांगल होईल. कार्य करत राहणे आणि ते हि भगवंतासाठी. हेतू न बाळगणे. चांगलं परिणाम पडेल – ह्यावर श्रद्धा ठेवणे.

हरि ओम.

 

Shree

 

Shree

Everything exists as existence of phenomenon (vibration and becoming) and Being (Truth and bliss). I exist and there are certain “things” by which there is an awareness of “I” and “action” and then it leads to inquiry of self, relationships, connections, expansion, becoming, dream, imagination, truth and so on.

I think the result of all the above inquiries is in accepting that no matter whatever “start point” seems to get constructed inevitably, it will evolve (change and many other things) and this process is also default part of existing as a human form.

Change does not label or define us in any way and neither do actions that result from the change. This has to be said because our mind fixates itself onto a concept formed in manifestation. The mind is a phenomenon and the Truth is even beyond that – indescribable, unwavering and peaceful.

So all the changes that seem to occur or be felt are incidental to existence of phenomenon and one should learn to become Peaceful regardless of whatever a ‘state’ of existence one may feel. In other words, a state of existence is a derivative of peace (created from Peace but not of Peace).

In this way the spirit of “creation” ought to be taken perhaps – all properties and becoming (as an action) emerges from Peace.

Hari Om.

Shree: Loop

Shree: Loop

We ourselves do not know us or any aspect of phenomenon completely. Realization and knowing are two different things and knowing means that one is vibrating whereas realization means being absolutely steady. Phenomenon is about "egg first or chicken”, meaning it is always relative, evolving, interdependent or changing and illusionary/ constructed and one feels existence based on this loop that one generates. Hence all our awareness and response currently depends on the nature of this loop. The loop defines us and we inturn operate as a loop.

Yet there is no start point or end point to anything – all is a web. This means I am present in all and all is present in me – which means I can become empathetic. All things represent a loop – young children or elders or the working people or climate or imagination or tree or mountain or anything else. Can we relate to the loop and see that we can still love and become steady despite apparent differences in the loop?

I don’t think so that blame or complain is required and it nevertheless exists because the loops are not accepted the way they are or even related to one’s loop. Hence logical thinking necomes severely limited and whatever it may suggest to us (logically) is just a part of the picture or the Truth.

Now the point is what are the modes of thinking that break or transcend the loop? Philosophy, art and creativity of any kind.

Make room for these in your mindscape.

Hari Om.

Shree

 

Shree

Every individual has a right to introspect regarding how perception occurs and what he/she can do about the same, if it is required to become peaceful. Blissful is a state of mind which means unconditioned to any changes or perceptions or forms or forces or anything of the phenomenon. This has to be felt by the self – there may be a template which says so, but unless one discovers this state, there is perhaps limited use in referring to a template as the truth. The discovery is a unique way of knowing the template and hence the journey of discovery becomes unique or personal to the individual.

A template may be seen as the greatest absolute abstraction of experience (or of the phenomenon) and regardless of our starting points defined by intellect or feelings or body or work (as being engaged in the phenomenal world), we have to rise to the experience of abstraction. This feeling of this abstracted Being or of abstracted Existence is “bliss”. Abstraction may mean taking out the irrelevant and become steady. It may also mean transcending specific points and seeing the web and even going beyond the web – in other words expansion and subtleness. Our experiences are specific to a phenomenon  - but we have the capacity to relate to the web and finally becoming steady. Therefore the identification with the individual self, although inevitable aspect of Being, is limited and one ought to grow and become the Being.

Now in the daily cases, the above process has to be related to anything as small as our observation or what we hear or how we hear and how we choose to respond. Hence things are mysterious and beyond pure logic of production or expectation or of time or space.

Finally bliss is all that matters and anything, any decision, any amount of patience and any effort that makes us so, is worth it.

Hari Om.

Shree: Trust

 

Shree: Trust

Our inner vibrations (Bhaw of Existence) make us perform certain actions or respond to environment or the web of existence. Separation is the result of getting engaged in phenomenon – and there are states of phenomenon from vibrations to forces of intellect and feelings to forms – each state represents a way of interacting and that means from awareness, to analysis to response of some kind. All is a phenomenon – created or already is there by God. Why does a phenomenon appear may be seen as a property of existence – the medium of God Himself – one already is God but seems to perceive universe of ‘forms’ if one seems to vibrate to generate a feeling of independence or separation. Hence separation or connection is a state of existence and rather than debating what is real, the inquiry can be  - what is preferred and therefore what should be referred as the Truth?

The realization of Truth also gets reflected in what one sees, perceives, acts and generates an intent. What one calls as intellect or feelings also is seen from the idea of purpose or action of control. Should it be seen in that way?

When I see or hear people talk about something the important question to the self is – how is interpretation within the self getting generated and why in a particular manner? All such forces of seeing, hearing, interpretations also mean the feeling of ‘I’. If this relationship is known without getting worried, then one will know what is to be worked on and why.

One is required to rise to the question of Existence and its nature and that too pursuing the question in a manner of trust and revelation. Any other intent apart from trust does not reveal the truth. It is as if God already knows all vibrations present in the self and hence there cannot be any cheating!

Hari Om.