I had this thought while meditating, life is about self and others who have life... These are the only 2 dimensions we are dealing with but how complicated we have made the dealings with life.
Life about self - It is about how you run yourself as a unit, how you become stronger and better. How you grow, how you seek happiness
Others who have life - These are the other living beings which give meaning to our existence, if I was the sole person living on the planet, imagine how life would have been. Today a lot of life about self is dependent on how I am interacting with others, how I am able to get support of others, I support them to get their support, it is a symbiotic relationship.
Every aspect of our day to day action is directed towards either taking care of self or how it helps us connect with others who are living. Does anything else matter? The material wealth we generate, the knowledge, the wisdom, the gadgets we acquire all are directed towards self caring or what is valued by others. These are tools to achieve the end...
What it meant to me was that life can be optimized directly through a direct relationship with others and self without having the convoluted tools. It is about spending time with self for growth and time with others. Time with others has to be non judgemental, full of love, friendship.
I think social structures, festivals, marriage all are created to make this end easier. Marriage, Social structure is created for getting others into your life - others where there is non judgemental, loving and friendly time...Clever were architects who created these institutions.. In current times however these institutions seem to be dissolving and is that the reason for increased psychological negativities?
Why do we build so many walls and complication, why all other circuitous ways? Is it fear in general, fear of failure, rejection?
I don't know seriously what you are talking about. But I am writing to you, because I can't stop myself. I had been reading something wonderful, divine, and I am full of it right now.
ReplyDeleteIf only we were not so Egoist and could surrender our failures as well as our achievements to the God, to the Ultimate, could we be possibly keeping hurts-wounds in our hearts?
Why to be so serious in life if everything is just Maya? And why attachments when you know it is a Maya? This is alike your own que - "Why do we build so many walls and complication? ..." When we know the simple path.
:) Was I lost for a long time? I was reminded this today itself, with more intensity, that everyone n all we meet in this life, are those we have met before, in past lives. !!! God Bless you!
:) I could feel that while writing that the idea does not seem to be developed completely, but I felt like writing and hence...
ReplyDeleteI cant comment on past lives as I really don't know about it much as a concept. Its existence can make a lot of sense and at the same time also make meaning of life more difficult to understand!
Cant agree more, it is about surrender to God or to someone who does not believe in God, it is about accepting failure as well as success without unnecessary reactions, conclusions, attachments, hatred, etc... keep it simple..
I said I dont know what you are talking about is - because I understand the language of passion and not of logic, concepts n arguments... I can easily understand the language of heart but the language of mind is beyond my grasp :)
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