The newspapers, the magazines, the posts on fb, the webpages all only talk about Ideas of behaviorism and modern superficialities of psychology with following questions debated again and again.
How must we
behave?
What are
our relationships like and how should these be like?
Who are our friends and why?
How do we interpret
the world?
How do we sum
up the world that we see?
What must
be our ideologies?
What should
be the social structure?
What is
kindness? What is love?
Why is their
anger?
Why is the
social structure the way it is?
Why are all
of us so different?
Why women
subjugated more than men?
Why there
is corruption and crime?
Why rich
and poor?
And the
political debates?
The amount of rant about external social order and the debate that ensue on TV news channels are endless with no one answer, with no conclusions as such. On and on these go about and on and on channels run their business. The same applies to newspapers. Sides are taken and debated on endlessly with no outcome.
And the same applies to us. Many of us may think that we are open minded but it does not take long to get into bandwagon of who we are when really pressed to take sides-! Be honest here. We all would only see our perspective when we are put in a position where we have to choose! The world is made up three categories- oppressors, the ones who are indirect oppressors(middle class us- like us who benefit from rules and regulations of the world as we are more on haves side than haves not) and then victims! We are very much a part of one of above categories - be it the nation that we belong to or the culture that we are born in or the parents that we have etc We are a part of it and we thrive in it or be a victim to it. Our endless debates do not change anything,
Is there
any answer to the conundrum of social structure and above questions?
Yes.
The way the world is or the minds
that we have become? There is no
way to see the world and people and social structure except observing oneself minutely. It must start with observing and then go on to changing oneself.
What exactly does changing oneself mean?
Let the mind
stop intellectualizing. Close your eyes
and focus inwards to beyond the realms of mind to a SELF that is beyond mind. When one goes
beyond this mind – the above questions lose their meaning. It feels like all
world situations, all our situations to be waves arising and subsiding into the
calm – forever present ocean. And then
one goes beyond cause and effect and beyond time and space and then one just
knows that there is nothing other than this SELF.
And then
one changes one’s perspective of outer world, and if each one of us is able to
do that – this world will be a different place. This world is nothing but ideas of collective minds and their ideologies.
When the inner world of
people who make the world changes – the outer world changes as well.
When collective minds become mindful - imagine the impact on the outer world
When collective minds become mindful - imagine the impact on the outer world
I have found through my own mindful practice that the world - the outer world will go on as it is, it is like a movie on the screen that you watch with all goods and bads and highs and lows happening all the time, everything connected in such a subtle way that we cannot comprehend unless we stop and just watch! And just like in the movie when you go through your anxious times or happy times - we go through same here - the difference is that in a movie you know that it is a movie but here you think that this is real unless death strikes.
To a question that should nothing be done to change the world- yes, we must do everything that we can to bring about changes needed for this human species to survive but when done mindfully, when we know ourselves our work will be relentless without any expectation of reward or desire to reach a state- that relentless work with a vision is the key and we need all minds to be a part of it or atleast 51% to be part of it for this world to be the way we want it to be.
If I make
any sense.