Shree: openness of being

 

Shree: openness of being

One can talk about incompleteness and still keep taking the name of God. Since there is a phenomenon to seek or expect “completeness”, it is a journey of becoming steady and not about any logical solution or about feelings. Of course this ought to be learnt – one learns by making mistakes and encountering pain. One may also inherently be born with this wisdom, perhaps for the majority it is just effort.

Space and time are existential expressions of consciousness – some change, dependence, action, work, intent, forces, and forms. All this is “alive” as a property of consciousness and with each of the transformative act, the character of I changes. This is to be accepted and somewhere the intellect, feelings and forms become “visible”. Visibleness is a property of being, just as Invisibleness is and both are “full”. Currently we assume that visbleness is the truth – meaning that is the only way of responding and what is felt or seen or thought about is the only way of survival or getting happy.

In order that Invisibleness is felt, one has to become invisible (subtleness and given the value it deserves – that it exists). Philosopically visibleness is referred as the “stepping down” of the Potential of Being – from being blissful and absolute and beyond to something which becomes limited, finite, temporary, changing, conditioned and relative. So one is required to “step up” to becoming Absolute.

In architecture, awareness begins from where? If consciousness is felt then all processes of starting from consciousness to a form become acknowledged in architecture. If senses are the only reality, then we are concerned only about the immediate necessity of survival of the self (not even the other or family or anything else).

A climate may seem to offer opportunites of giving a clue of connections from geopgraphy to a human form leading to transition of spaces. This seems to be a default idea (at least in warm climates). However more fundamental than this is the idea of consciousness getting expressed in architecture. Then the act of architecture takes a form of territorial setting leading all the way to cosmogony.

Form making then becomes incidental and may not (or need not) reflect a direct or a causal relationship with climate. This is also true in contemporay times – it is not how open or closed the form is visually (by glass or surveillance systems). More fundamental is the openness or close endedness of mindscape that reveals the dimension of consciousness in its very own actions.

Hari Om.