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Random thought patterns as we try to analyse everyday life
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Shree: On loosing
In today’s times we
fear losing things. The fear, as an imagination, has been eternal and perhaps
people have expressed ways of dealing with this fear. Life is temporary and
this feel is also a state of the mind, its nature, connections, behaviour,
relations, and its dilemma or questions of whether am I alone or separated or
together or what is this business of existence?! The awareness to feel such
things and the search for becoming the truth is the inevitable inquiry of being
human – as a potential. It is a deep rooted fear - let me make no qualms about
it and let me k=not even simplify it.
But the point is we
desperately seek answers through tools of imagination that come from separation
or temporariness itself! So how can the answer or synthesis happen from the
tool of incompleteness? Once this inquiry is digested (and it takes some time to
digest this – maybe some lives) the running stemming from fear mellows down.
The running or any other response through fear does not dilute the fear – it
reinforces it or continues it. Fear is intent, in other words.
But if intent can
suggest so much, then what should be the “intent” of living?
Loosing happens If
we identify with things, which have a habit of becoming and going or changing.
The faster the pace of change or movement, faster is the feel of loss or loss
of memory or loss of doing things or loss of a pattern. This can be altered, if
subtleness is known or if identification with movement does not happen. Who am
I is a question of identity/ awareness/ memory/ being. I am God, nothing less.
Hari Om.
I am space and so
are others. Space is experience, culture, pattern, relationship, connection,
action, imagination, doing, physical, subtle and so many things. Since
“experience” itself happens in space, everyone has some idea or a say of space.
That makes space intrinsic, fundamental and universal. So the key of
architectural discipline is to get people to engage, collaborate, and talk of
space and act on space. The difficulty is since we are made of space itself –
how can the experience be pulled out, objectified, debated, compared, evaluated,
spoken about, tried out, and expressed? There is not one language to do it –
but that becomes the beauty of engaging with all forms of spaces and then
realizing the depth of what space means.
This becomes the
agenda for dealing with naac. Since the field is highly creative, subjective,
speculative, critical, the manner of engagement and action and documentation
should allow all such processes to express themselves. How can documentation
allow such a range of diversity to come together? The answer is in defining the
idea of ‘focus’. Many things put together do not make a story at all – rather
it may lead to confusion. But a strong focus can accommodate diversity.
Hari Om.
श्री: प्रश्न
Shree: Circles of Existence
We think we are separated. “we” is an imagination born in existence and there is a feeling of separation. From this feeling, cycles of perceptions are created that make connections relations, forms, expressions, intents and cause-effects. This causation is a kind of “linearity” that we do not as yet realize the nature of the things that become, come, and go and what that means or how should that affect us. We think something should come, last for eternity and not go – this is an assumption and this assumption creates its own meanings and associations with forms or thoughts. The result of this – is that we become afraid, worried and defensive and go all the way to resist such a phenomenon of change or movement. Why should movement or change “bother us” is the inquiry to be undertaken.
As the awareness turns inwards, the feeling of linearity (movement, engagement, expectation, action, purpose, effects, refinement, defence etc.) diminishes and one realizes a “cycle” of being – that there is a steady centre around which things anchor, move, come, go, revolve and so on. So the centre is always there. The movement to it (eruption/ creation/ vibration/ perception) is introduced and that makes it a space-time medium within which all the phenomena occur.
So are we the object/ form or space-time or the centre or are we talking about the same thing?
Hari Om.
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Shree: Memory
Memory is about
existence. I think the place of memory is to generate a sense of belongingness.
It may include any imagination (or reality) of myth, ancestors, environment,
actions, self and so on. It remains connected with many other dimensions and
many other forms, so connections are searched. Whatever is ‘seen’ is through
the aspect of memory, so space and time is also memory. Does space and time
“change”? it depends on memory of Being.
At a more daily
level, I may see geography as behavioural, experiential, intuitive level. I may
also see self and environment as feelings, intellect, emotions, or any of the
constructs that get generated. So how does that shape our environment? If all
things that I see are roads, motions, sophisticated caves, glass, steel, grey,
straight lines, silence, order, control, systems – what sort of influence it
has on memory?! Do we get silenced? Do we feel apathy? Are we numbed? And to
counter it, do we shout and cause panic to galvanise a mob? In the same way, if
I see/ feel trees, meandering things, up and down, roughness, odour, sound,
breeze, sun, clouds, sky, slowness, touch – what sort of influence does it have
on memory? If I extend this observation to built environment, how does a
settlement indicate such behavioral attributes of people?
In planning
theories, I think historical analysis will show the idea of movement as a line
– on terrain, width, height, proportions, slowness and fastness and the spaces
which get organised along this movement. All planning ideas, it seems, may get
conceptualized through the idea of movement – be those of people or animals or
carts or cars or ships or railways etc. In a nutshell, experience can be spoken
through movement.
Hari Om.
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