Saturday, 12 December 2015

Ideas of behaviorism and modern superficialities of psychology


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

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.