I first though of writing this blog article when I observed how much people are suffering just because of lack of simple understanding. This includes me too. One of the famous contemporary sage had once strewed a very wise advice, when asked the metaphysics of such situations. His precise reply still holds like an timeless understanding which we have almost forgotten.
He told, "If you have learned, the art of putting attention at anything at your will, and withdrawing it at will, then suffering is finished"
From ego problems, to anxiety, to insomnia, to excessive indulgance in physical pleasures, to peer-pressure. . . Name any problem, most of them you will see, chains down to this problem of getting out only.
It is as if you are given non stop food in your food pipe, and you have no control, over how to stop it. No space given to stomach for digestion, leading to constipation. Same is the tragedy with mind. We cannot stop info, how it comes and goes, the more we try to stop mind, the more information or thoughts come. but at least we can distance ourselves, to our ability by creating some space.
Today, the modern society, with its multiple ways has lead us to bombardments of information. Everywhere you go, meet a person, he has his own film casting out. On surface, everything looks perfect, fantastic, absolutely amazing, but the deeper penitration in the matter leaves me with a heavy heart.
Truely, the growth of human possibilities in this century is absolutely spectacular. From From Friends to Inception,from McDonalds to Maggie,Nexus to all kinds of News,mails,spams, Theatrics to cinematography, from Research to Skillsets, the growth is truely not less then a miracle, in some ways. Just see world 100 years back, and just see now. So much activity.
But with all its bags of information and gifts, we often easily seem to miss the suffocation it has brought. Suffocation is not because of information, but inabiltiy to handle it. It is like swimming is fun, if you know how to get to the land. But it is a trap, if you don't know, that after a certain time, when you are tired, where to go . . .
In some ways, an average human being has definitely learned the art of putting attention on objects, but still the tragedy is, he doesn't know, how to switch it off.
Take for example, the thing you love the most, like dancing, eating, sleeping, studying, anything. For me, it is studying, maths seems like an artistic potrait, which is ever facinating, but after 2-3 years, as information kept pumping, It started feeling like a trap, how to get out of it, my life became pathetic, confused, complicated. I was not ready to handle it.
But in later years, I realized, how important it is to learn to get out of act before getting involved in some act. It is like entering in a room with internal lock, without taking the keys to outside.
Today scientific studies have proved that rate at which information is flowing in human mind is much much large than it's normal functioning. The effects are that our basic abilities have actually shrinked by 70% rather than expanding.
Simple things like eating food, talking with friends, talking with parents, walking well, having sound sleep, and not to forget, the common sense have become uncommon.
After all these understanding's, I understand, how much important it is to have atleast 1 hrs, where you are just alone, simple admiring stillness, or feeling the breeze, going out to a beach, or meditating. Because these are times when information is minimized and your natural intelligence gets certain room to blossom.
Right now, too much information has actually choked out natural intelligence. Western societies are best example of it.
So does it mean, we must become a renuncient and run away? No, there is better option.
Better option is that, live the way we wish to live, with all necessary information, being any damn thing, nothing wrong with traveling in limousine, watching movie, working your profession intuitively, but at the same time, create a corner, a space, where you are able to switch off all the garbage you do all day long, and simply be still,meditative is extremely important.
This way, you will allow yourself to be everyouth spirited, retaining the naturally funtioning intelligence, working with information and yet untouched by it :)
In Indian subcontinent, even today you find Jain sages who keep white cloth on their mouth, and remain silent. People today are just constipating words here and their, without a flow, a natural rythm, no discretion at all!. It is like if you are served bread and poison on same plate. And you are hapazardly, carelessly consuming anything and everything served on your plate. Even if it is poisoning you . . Who cares, we just keep consuming everything . . not very wise way to live. . Our mind has become like that only. These all complex problems are simply , out of this non-stop flow of information in head, without giving it rest and lubrication by withdrawal of attention, thereby chocking our natural intelligence to deal with life!
I really think this is high time, people understand this, because who wants suffering? and that too, because of simple misunderstanding? People say world is like this only,non stop suffering, but when it happens to you, you realize how your philosophies don't fit in any longer.
I hope, it does make some difference :)
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