The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness !

What if we discover that we were totally wrong about everything and we probably were, thus it takes courage to be in the quest of 'what is'.

Then comes our preconception of what reality is or supposed to be. Evidently, the question rushes in our conscious mind of who we are, how we are supposed to live, whom we are supposed to hang out with, what are we supposed to accomplish in life, or what gender are we meant to be.

It is important to realize how we have been living in a matrix controlled by forces consciously/unconsciously, we have no idea about. Who we really are, what are our potential, what we have to offer or what life can offer us? The mind floods the brain with uncertainties.We all try to be free and know our real self. However, before we try knowing, it becomes important to surrender the false self or come to terms with it and that's where the complexity lies.

The real self is very simple, there is nothing to know. In fact, you have got to forget everything known and delve into the unknown to know it.

For that matter, the religious text has nothing to offer, and it makes no sense reading books and learning about other people's ideas when we are already filled with so much of our own. If you read books, read it in a 'class situation' where any misconception grown out of the interpretation of what you read and what the author has put in gets straightened out.

My words will never propagate any idea, it might help you let go of the already existing ideas so as to have an experience of the self when you are completely out of ideas.

Before you ever had any idea, 'silence of the self' was what prevailed and that's all we strive.

Let me be Selfish!

With the world running through the wave of self-empowerment, where freedom, love, and gratitude are the keys to the existence, how far can we go being selfish? The society for that matter believes in a more pragmatic approach towards helping self with the motive of helping others, encouraging one to multitask, and that's where we all trip.

It might sound contradicting when on one hand we propagate on 'being self' and on the other 'being selfish' becomes derogatory. Such a commotion indeed! we are often left to choose when nothing needs to be chosen. We give when we have nothing, we teach when we know nothing. The strategy we incorporate to exist in harmony creates discord. Apparently, it's more of the war we wage with ourselves than with anybody else.

This is when selfishness becomes crucial, people now are trying to give more than what they have. We give love, advice when we ourselves aren't filled up with, and in the end left with nothing. What we had given, we never truly had for ourselves and the cycle of depression, hatred, self-dislike, pain sets in. Well, it is more of a self-inflicting pain the world's into than what is.

The world might quote me the blasphemer, however being selfish is the new selfless, selflessly loving one has become more important than the self-inflicting nuisance. This reminds me of someone once said-- “Only a cup filled with water can overflow fullness”.

Peace !!

Being Mr. Nobody-- The Beginner's mind!

Someone wise once said-- 'the search for self-realization is powered by our anxiety, our fears that feeds our ego causing frustration in our daily life'. Never realizing what it meant, gave a food for thought to analyze what the society's paradigm of 'self-realization' is.

When the mind is left alone, one can witness its vastness. Every individual find different means and methods to begin their search with certain parameters in mind as per norms, the parameter of what is known hitherto and what can be anticipated set by the society.

Now when the religious texts and scholars blow their trumpet of self-realization, often perplexed, the mind tries to find where it all began; tracing the search back in time; trying to find the beginner's mind becomes crucial, the original mind that beholds everything in itself-- it is always rich, ever sufficient, it is not a closed mind but an ever empty mind. This is where the possibility of being dual fades and is rendered with its oneness.

When the mind demands or creates a self-centered overview, it limits itself, however, when redeemed with no thoughts of self or any achievements the 'true beginners' begin their journey. Consequently, the true wisdom knocks the door.

The beginner's mind is always compassionate and boundless. The boundless mind is open to all learning. Eventually, the need for any religious texts or manual of conducts cease to exist and become redundant.

'In a beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in an expert mind there are few'. Who wants to be an expert when there is always something new to be known, being the unknown, being Mr. Nobody.