Journey to the Abstract

August 19, 2015

All relationships mirror

All relationships are mirroring.

Give anger to them – Get anger projected back to you.

Give disapproval to them – Get disapproval projected back to you.

Ignore them – They ignore you in return.

Give acceptance to them – Get acceptance projected back to you.

Desire them – They desire you in return.

Want them – They want you in return.

Now this dynamic gets complicated because of the wearing of masks.

Say that you are really angry at someone, but you are wearing a mask of being nice to them.

Now, the acts from a mask are full of inconsistencies that can be spotted.

For example, say the person gives you a broad smile momentarily and then looks away and becomes poker faced, you can sense the inconsistency right?

Inconsistency is a straight give away that ‘Someone is acting’.

Now putting on any act takes a lot of effort. And no effort can be perpetual, let alone stay consistent in quality and quantity. So you can clearly see that – the degree of inconsistency observed shows the degree of pretense.

Another example would be, if someone portrays and shows great interest in what you say, engages participates and everything. But never ever talks to you about that topic again, then again there is an inconsistency right.

So all these inconsistencies are proofs of a mask.

People can subconsciously detect this and tend to avoid such people.

Sometimes people who are very sad, put on a mask of happiness.

An astute observer can spot this.

If the observer wishes to avoid accepting that person’s sadness, their resistance to it and the fact of them hiding it with a mask, if this knowledge is too uncomfortable for him, he would then avoid that person.

But the sad person who is putting a happy face may wonder why are so many people rejecting him, in spite of him putting on a happy face or a nice act. This is because it is not the happy face or nice acts that are rejected. What is rejected could be a combination of 1. The person’s original sadness, 2. Their Resistance and Hatred of that, 3. Their covering up or hiding of it, 4. Their Acting Mask for the fact that it is a put on and not really felt (not for the act itself or what it attempts to personify).

Sometimes the masks mirror too. Like if 1 person puts on a mask in the interaction, the other puts one on too because once a mask is put, the other person is obscuring his real feelings. Now this could be because he is just ashamed which is fine OR it could be something more evil like the other person is trying to exploit or use you by putting on a disguise. How would you know? You cannot know right away, but you can observe the behavior and a pattern would emerge.

The former case if verified would be just a question of your acceptance, and the fact that you are making a relationship with essentially a hollow act, which can be dropped anytime. You have to accept the insubstantiality of the whole relationship and many people are not ready to invest in something that is like a fragile castle made of sand.

The latter case however, would actually put you in danger. If that person is going to exploit you, you have to detect that fast and be hyper-vigilant. So you have to constantly live in fear when with that person. This case is worse than the former, because not only is the relationship phony and empty like the former, it is also going to exploit and harm you, and to top it up, leave you empty like it never existed.

Luckily acts can never be foolproof, they take substantial effort and its impossible to maintain a perpetual act in terms of quality and quantity. So they are full of holes that can be seen through.

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015

Transformation of Evil to Good – Emerging of empathy

Imagine someone numbs their hand with an injected anesthetic.

Then later he decides he is not the hand and is not identified with it.

He beats the hand with a stick.

He does not feel anything, but lets assume the hand still flinches.

He finds this fun, and beats the hand again and again

He enjoys watching the hand struggle every time, but feels no pain.

Later he beats himself on his leg, which is not numb and normal.

He feels pain.

Then he extrapolates that the hand must technically be feeling a similar pain as when he hit his leg.

This is cognitive empathy.

When the anesthetic wears off, now when he beats his hand, he feels pain.

He understands the hand is himself and treats it just like he treats his leg.

This is experiential empathy.

August 12, 2015August 12, 2015

The experience of “Death” and “Life” are verbs

Death as a “Verb” = Corrosion, rusting, decomposition, degeneration, deterioration, disintegration, impairment, rotting, atrophy, crumbling, decadence, decline, dilapidation, dissolution, fading, putrefaction, ruination, spoilage, withering, wasting away, losing.

Life as a “Verb” = Advancement, Expansion, Prosperity, Production, Surge, Boost, Cultivate, Enlarge, Extend, Flowering, Proliferation, Building, Development, Growth, Progress, Improvement, Ascent, Construction, Increase, Rising, Flourish, Strengthen, Ripen, Germinate.

So technically one cannot be afraid of death as a noun. Because death as a noun is not an experience at all. You would not longer exist to know that you do not exist. Similarly life cannot exist as a noun.

All change is a simultaneous creation and destruction.

It is the destruction of the old and creation of the new.

Like the ouroboros snake.

Whether you see change as a “destruction of the old” or a “burgeoning of the new” is a matter of perspective. This problem is exactly like the necker’s cube. BOTH THE PERSPECTIVES ARE TRUE.

So in a way, there is no death, there is no life, when seen from the dimension above, there is only constant endless transformation. It is the perpetual dance of seeing different perspectives of the same infinite object.

August 9, 2015August 9, 2015

Why is emptiness so unbearable?

Because emptiness is loss.

It is felt when just about anything is lost.

Loss of what you love and even loss of what you despise.

Because what is loved is the relationship.

(Even the relationship of despising something can be loved.)

The objects carry the relationships.

In fact there are no separate objects at all.

The objects have no essence.

Objects themselves get created by the relationships you project.

The only essence of the objects are the relationships projected by you.

The objects and the relationship are in-fact ONE.

One can say,

Emptiness is the loss of these relationship projections

It is the collapse and flattening of relationships.

Both existing ones and potential ones.

Without the relationships as we looked at earlier

The objects that you see around are emptied of essence

Everything flattens out in your world

Your formerly rich 3D world is reduced to a flatland (2D).

As the emptiness grows, it can potentially reach a point

Where even the flatland (2D) becomes ONE infinite nothing or 1D.

Lets look at the dimensions in greater detail.

This is just a exercise to get one thinking.

6-D is maybe what you feel in childhood in the magical stage

Where impossible possibilities are believed in the imagination

Then say as you grow up you enter 5-D realms

Where the limitations of reality have revealed themselves to you

And now your imagination gets narrowed onto what is realistically possible.

Then as you further grow up even more limitations get imposed

You reach 4-D, when you get anchored to a specific career path

OR commitments like marriage and so on

which further limit the diversity or riches of possibility.

Then on meditation exercises like vipassana

You focus on the present moment experience, Right now

You narrow your attention to relationships you have with specific objects

i.e. Objects which are happenings right now,

In immediate time, like your in-breath and out-breath.

This makes you reach 3-D

Then when you develop equanimity

Now, the 3-D collapses to 2-D

Because there is even(single) relationship to everything appearing in your immediate present

Then finally on further experiential inquiry

The 2-D collapses to 1-D.

That is everything becomes unified, ONE.

There is oneness, wholeness.

In which case there is no relationship at all.

How can there be a relationship when there is only one.

The 1-D is the final union of the witnesser and the witnessed

So the journey to oneness in other words,

IS the collapse of time.

OR the collapse of dimensions from 6-D to 1-D.

OR the collapse of multiplicity.

The corollary of this would be,

The creation of new dimensions

Creation of new possibilities

The creation of new worlds and so on

Which would be the movement away from oneness.

August 6, 2015August 6, 2015

Relativity of happiness perception

If all happiness is relative then we could divide experience into 2 parts:

The background and You.

Also, another factor is where you plot yourself on the background.

1. Lets say this is the background you see:

-ve ———————|———————- +ve

It is basically all the possibilities appearing in your imagination.

Now this background itself shifts with your changing moods and perceptions even during a single day.

It may not shift around much though most of the time.

But it can dramatically move around, when your doing deep inquiry and elevating consciousness into the nature of everything.

2. The next factor is where you plot yourself on this imagination spectrum that appears in awareness.

Case 1: If you consider yourself unfortunate and cursed

-ve ——-|You|—————|———————-+ve

Case 2: If you consider yourself blessed and fortunate

-ve———————–|————–|You|——–+ve

This is a heavy simplification, but could be an interesting train of thought to pursue.

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015

Karma monsters (reactive patterns)

The karma monsters “reactive patterns” become visible in the light however, they do not disappear instantly. It takes quite a while of sustained light for them to release themselves/their hold from you. It is like a quest to disable those monsters by gradually dissolving them with more and more light, by learning how they work, learning their triggers, their ways. Its similar to how a scientist observes an animal daily to master its patterns and workings. In this case, the animals are internal animals that hijack attention through reactive patterns.

Also the monsters themselves are not revealed to you all at once. They are revealed in time, in episodes and bits, as you move around, encounter different situations internal and external, in life, the reactivity is triggered in different degrees. So the invisible reactivity matrix is made visible in time (through internal and external circumstances) and by the intensity of light, observation and contemplation you give them. It needs patience. Sometimes light is low, but karmic pattern is made highly visible. Sometimes light is high and there are only mild karmic patterns working. And sometimes, there is high light and high triggering and these states are when the monsters get illuminated the most. Various difficulties can arise, reactive patterns may assault you at various times. But ultimately every reactive pattern needs to be dissolved with light. These monsters exist in the SPACE-TIME dimension. They are 4-D creatures in a way because at this moment, you only see a thin slice of them. Infact you may not see them at all, if they are not triggered. You can see, the monsters comprise your 4-D Karmic Body in Space-Time. In space – they are this moment’s experience. For example: Someone said XXX to you and you got disturbed. Then if you look at your feeling right now, the disturbed feeling is there, a snapshot of that, is the existence of the karmic monster in space. On the other hand, if you continuously observe yourself in time, you would see the map of how different situations, beliefs, thoughts trigger this pattern with different intensities. Maybe if you continuously observe and journal about it for a month, then the monster has revealed itself to you in TIME, its patterns in TIME. So the invisible reactive monsters live in SPACE-TIME. Through this observation in SPACE AND TIME of the invisible energy based karmic monsters, eventually you would understand their root cause in the belief level (Remember belief level is outside of SPACE-TIME) and transcend it.

August 5, 2015

About Causation – determined by Past or the Future.

Normally we believe that the chain of causation infinitely backwards.

For example: Your forefathers determine your genes.

Your childhood determines your adulthood and so on.

However we can also see it in the reverse way i.e. the chain of causation could also be seen as running infinitely forward too.

How could this be so?

Because, we believe the past determines the future.

But what if the future determines the past?

Meaning your experience now could be a building block towards some experience you are to have in the future.

For example: Maybe your bad experiences now are so that you can master them and help somebody 10 years in the future.

So in that case, then event ‘now’ is caused/determined by the future event and not by the past.

So lets see the continuum:

Past ———- -> ———-Now———— -> ———- Future

Is the driver moving from left to right? – in which case the now is determined by the past.

OR Is the driver moving right to left? – in which case the now is determined by the future.

Both are true and its a matter of perspective.

We can shift this perspective to and fro just like looking at the cubes below:

Now Time is created by the mind or Thought.

No Thought implies No Time.

So No thought would bring you to the ‘Eternal screen’.

Now Past = Analogous to ‘known’, and Future = Analogous to ‘Unknown’ right?

Another way to look at it would be – Why should the ‘known’ be the determinant of the future?

Couldn’t it be equally so that the unknown/mystery is the real determinant of the future?

I guess here too, the answer is both are true.

Depending on how you see it – just like the cubes shown above.

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015

All egos are mini-gods

At a micro level – creations by a single creature are similar to creations done by God in the universe.

“You” are God’s thought. And your thoughts are God’s “micro-thoughts”.

So you are a system within a system – created by God.
Man made systems are microcosms and they sit over the macrocosm creations.
The microcosms are completely dependent on the macrocosms.
Like how we are dependent on conditions on earth, solar system, sun for our survival.
All egos are essentially mini gods (with will and personal powers).
However, this mini-god status of man is ultimately granted by God himself.

August 3, 2015March 19, 2019

Evil is the most fundamental hypocrisy

It is ‘using life’ to ‘destroy life’.
It is a pure double standard, because if the same destruction were to be inflicted on them, that would be against their interests.
So ‘evil’ ultimately needs and wants “life, nurture, love” and lives of that food – but destroys that very food for others.
Since the entire tree of life depends on everyone and everything in interrelationship, the evil are basically destroying themselves, but their view is so myopic (ignorant) that they cannot see how it all comes back to them.
But by harming others they are ultimately violating their own interests.
They are destroying others and themselves in the larger picture, but their ignorance makes them think they are prospering at the others’ expense by exploiting them.
It is similar to cutting down all the rainforests in ignorance and watching the climate, air quality, nutrients go into a downward spiral, and upsetting all kinds of natural systems. However when cutting down the rainforest, the intention of the person was to prosper at the expense of the trees. But in effect, he has jeopardized his own well-being and interests in ignorance of the connectivity of the systems.
When what evil ultimately wants is life and it destroys that very life in others.
It is like drowning your own boat, when the very thing you want is for it to float.
Evil itself cannot survive without goodness.
The evil lives like a parasite on the tree of goodness.
Because without goodness, how can evil itself survive in the first place?
The evil therefore compromises the very thing that is feeding it.
The evil attacks the tree of life and if the tree of life goes down, the evil cannot survive either.
So it is highly foolhardy of the evil to attack its own source of nurture/life in ignorance.
The evil destroys the very source of its existence – love/life/nurture.

July 31, 2015July 31, 2015

All of existence is You, and all of existence is in relationship with You

How do I move my hand?

I have a certain relationship with my hand.

I can move it in certain ways and not others.

I call my hand mine, because I have trained a relationship with it.

In the same way, we have a certain relationship to others.

If we understand them, their driving forces, we can control them as well as we control our hand metaphorically.

Everything exists as a relationship in consciousness.

So we can call all of existence you, since everything is in relationship.

There is no way to not be in relationship to anything in your awareness.

What we conventionally call ‘ignoring’ or ‘not being in relationship’ is also a kind of relationship.