Although our minds seem not to be extended in space, apparently having no dimension, and although we experience time as one-dimensional, perceiving ourselves as a point traveling forward along a time line, we should never fall into the mind trap of believing that anything within being is simply linear or restricted to a single point, least of all consciousness.
We are dropped into being, which is fluid, free-floating and spherical like a drop of water in empty space. It is inherent in the structure of a sphere that on its surface the nature of things is symmetrical in all directions, but our splash down introduces a point of reference, novelty and difference, and it shatters the perfect symmetry. The ripples made by our splashdown radiate in circles away from us and converge on the opposite side of spherical being. Of course, after they converge they continue to propagate, and because they are on the surface of a sphere they converge again back where they began. That is, where we splashed down. Any movement creates more ripples and waves that propagate, converge on the opposite side, grow as they add to one another, and return to us where we are. And this is just a simplified view, only considering what is happening on the surface! The more we move, the more we create the disturbances that return to us, but we may not identify ourselves as the source of the disturbances because they come to us from elsewhere, or so it seems. If we panic or thrash, the agitations can escalate rapidly.
We are dropped into being, which is fluid, free-floating and spherical like a drop of water in empty space. It is inherent in the structure of a sphere that on its surface the nature of things is symmetrical in all directions, but our splash down introduces a point of reference, novelty and difference, and it shatters the perfect symmetry. The ripples made by our splashdown radiate in circles away from us and converge on the opposite side of spherical being. Of course, after they converge they continue to propagate, and because they are on the surface of a sphere they converge again back where they began. That is, where we splashed down. Any movement creates more ripples and waves that propagate, converge on the opposite side, grow as they add to one another, and return to us where we are. And this is just a simplified view, only considering what is happening on the surface! The more we move, the more we create the disturbances that return to us, but we may not identify ourselves as the source of the disturbances because they come to us from elsewhere, or so it seems. If we panic or thrash, the agitations can escalate rapidly.
Time is multidimensional, and so is consciousness, and our waves also propagate throughout those media. Believe it, and do not thrash. As biotechnological humans, we are thrashing in ways we do not consider violent or agitated, and we thrash in ways we do not even recognize as thrashing.
If you realize the spherical nature of being, then there is freedom. We may yet experience this freedom as euphoria internally and personally within our own individuated consciousness, where we may know bliss accompanied by a sense of wholeness and personal responsibility that defies the confining biopsychosocial truths and lies that shackle us to this dying way of life. We thrash because the undeniable, yet devilishly elusive truth is that this way of life is a dying way, a way of drowning. Calm the waters; calm your self, even though virtually no one will advocate this, nor teach you how to do it. You know how to do it.
In general, the human way of life rapes and murders the soul of freedom for the sake of what is taken to be a worthwhile life. Mostly, our souls live in threadbare survival and in slavery to our ego-ridden social selves. In short, we build our own cages and live in concrete, sanitized zoological parks where we are treated like captive chattel and where we will be trapped, unable to avoid the mass extinction brought about by our own unsurpassed intelligence, utter stupidity and criminal insanity, all of which parasitize wisdom. It is easy to believe, and understandable if the reader feels this is hyperbole. Meanwhile, information, technology, science and vapid, quickly perishable trends in thought masquerade as wisdom and spiritual evolution.
Consider the apathy with which the 2005 Boxing Day tsunami in Asia was greeted by so many humans who encountered it. It was so far outside their experience they could not see it for what it was. Even though they saw something approaching they generally did nothing to evade it because they could not understand that it meant impending disaster for them. The nonhuman animals who sensed it coming, though they never saw it, did what was reasonable. They went inland to higher ground where they generally survived. We have traded good sense for reason.
Perhaps, there is a blessing in having a mind that is silent of language, which often confounds direct experience, deceives, entraps and enslaves its users. Language may serve us, but we do not always serve ourselves if we rely solely on it to understand anything, much less everything. The snare may be inherent in our dependence on language for almost all of our teaching and learning. Teachers assert that the best way to understand anything is to try to teach it to someone. But anyone who understands learning knows that there is no such thing as teaching. Learning is all, and many conditions make learning more or less likely.
Ultimately, the usefulness of language is to facilitate enlightened self-interest which benefits the whole sphere of being. For humans, if, as we claim, that is indeed what we want, it cannot be achieved without language, but neither can it be achieved solely with it. Our way of error can only be uprooted when we see that we have been deceived by our teachers into believing that if we are to understand anything it must be named and described, and they claim that if you have not named and described it you have not understood it. This claim is motivated by the desire to control. It is plainly materialistic, and it is why we need sirens blaring when a natural, enlightened feeling of dread is supplanted by a wholly unwise complacency. We are taught through modeling that apathy is the appropriate feeling in response to anything that is not obviously self-serving.
What need is there for alarm? It's business as usual unless we are told differently. And yet, even though we are told differently, business, as usual, appeals to our egos and language-addled minds to convince us that in our own self-interest, we should not to make waves. The irony of this eludes us. Now, if you have learned anything by reading all this verbiage, forget the source of it so we may both live free! Dismantle the cage and go to higher ground.
peace,
sarva
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