Experiencing Life and Expressing it

HUMAN BIRTH IS PRECIOUS, they say.

Life is remarkable and superior (if at all) to other creatures only because humans get to experience life and can express it.

And that to me sums up all *purposes* associated with a life.

However, both these aspects of life - experience and expression - are powerful volatile forces.

Journey towards Nirvana then is to minimise on this volatility by expanding experiences and restricting expressions. And also restricting experience and expanding expressions.

Certain environments call for a balance between experience and expressions with no particular emphasis on either expansion or restriction. Whereas some conditions call for a suppression of both these aspects of life.

All major spiritual traditions, ancient or modern, subscribe to one or more of these tenets.

A Random Atom

IF I WANT TO be a part of Anima Mundi, all I have to do is "to be".

For its everywhere, all the time.
In other words: Here and Now.

I am but a link in this multi dimensional chain.
Like a strand of grass standing in the wind, swaying with the wave one way or another.
Dancing at the ripples.
The chain is infinite.

I am but just one among many many – a random atom – among billions of galaxies with their infinitude of Stars and Solar systems.
In all directions and dimensions.

The wave originates from somewhere – here, there, perhaps at the centre of the Universe.
Or perhaps my this immediate mind role-playing Anima Mundi at that temporal point in time. Here at this micro moment, gone the very next.

The wave is the carrier of the "cause"; sometimes the wave is the "cause", to which the mind and body reacts.
As it passes through the complex maze of this chain, each of its links react to it.
As it comes, I either accept the wave or reject it – the dual states of being.

The "time" then is the "speed" at which the cause travels.

A choice is given to the link. To react in tandem or oppose the wave. The simplest decisions that fill our minutes, hours, days and life.

Liberation lies in choicelessness.

Singularity.

React, not relate. Neither oppose, not reject. Just be. Let it be.

The whole Universe becomes I. The chain is I.
The link is here, now.
The link before was this past second, or the last hour, or yesterday, my childhood, the birth before.
The link after is tomorrow, the next fall, the next relationship, the next Armageddon, the next Nirvana.


What matters is this very link – this instance – this precise tiny state of being: Not the one before; neither the one after.

At this very instance, I have arrived in the future as it were yesterday, and which would be past the very next instance. I be in all the three states thus.

The Random Atom faces duality. Yet again.

Liberation lies in choicelessness.

The centre of Anima Mundi is choiceless.
Formless. Flawless. Wordless.

The future is born there. I can see it. As I close my eyes. Flames. For the Link before and after are in my dreams. Imaginations. Perceptions. Expectations. Reflections.

And as I create it, the Random Atom reflects that centre.

That is I:
- A Random Atom.

That is you, too.

Meditation and its Physical Active Form

PHYSICAL BODY COUPLES WITH PHYSICAL SHADOW,
The Spiritual Body (Sanskrit: Shookshma Kaya) has its own, innate, Spiritual Shadow (Shookshma Chaya).

The Four marks the manifestation of source-and-life in time-and-space.

Meditation is a state of consolidation of inward energies.
Yoga, then, provides the outwardly 'release' of this energy into time-and-space.

The release that empowers here-and-now.

Release is as much fundamental as consolidation.
A perfect balance of life is unattainable otherwise.

For some, a more aggressive form of such a manifestation and release is required than simple Yoga.

There are many renowned practices catering to various denominations of such aspirants.



Below is an example of Tai Chi which is but only one such method among many.

Tai Chi is a method of 'release and capture' wherein, the inert energies thus consolidated at meditation are brought forward, manifested, dispersed and consolidated again but in physical formate this time, augmenting the physical 'being' (body) to a higher plane.

A Tai Chi master shall never falls sick,
A 'perfect' Tai Chi master shall perfect all ways of life-affecting elements,
Having thus mastered life-altering energies, the master shall transcend the interplay and overlap of energies between their physical and spiritual formates,

A Tai Chi master may thus aim to attain immortality,
A Tai Chi master may thus claim to attain Nirvana.

The Simple is Divine, The Divine is Simple

[Sir] Stephen Hawkins, in my opinion, is someone who came closest in defining divinity in our contemporary world. One might successfully argue that with his equations, hypothesis and theories Dr. Hawkins described blackholes to their most accurate dimensions in the field of astrophysics till date. And in doing so, Dr. Hawkins gives us a better insight and understanding of that brilliantly amazing concept of Singularity; and that is where his thesis comes the closest to defining divinity.



Indeed, Divinity and Singularity, when treated at a concept level, are very closely related. In a truly esoteric sense, however, they are one and the same.

Divinity is Singularity, and vice-versa.

At the centre is Singularity. The moment one steps outside of this “centre” is where the so called World begins, for that’s the realm of duality and duality is THE definition of the world.

Singularity, non-duality, no-thing-ness, are the terms which as esoteric as they are misused, misunderstood and misguided.

These terms are not “easy” to grasp by the contemporary mind since they stem away from the root “Simple”.

Singularity = Simple

And since the world is complex the contemporary mind is “trained” to see complexity of all dealings and hence miss the inherent Simplicity in the process. Simplicity that is pure, Simplicity that is the essence, of anything and everything.

Simplicity of nature
Simplicity of life
Simplicity of existence
Simplicity of being

Life is generally flittered away with details – noise, pollution, partitions and parasites – as they take the simple matter and details as such make things complex, its serpentine tentacles holding the simple life and its pure breath hostage.

Simplicity is common, un-special.

This un-specialness is the true celebration of life – cuts down the noise, clearing the mind, unification of the senses, and providing sustenance.

Specialness is but a modified accentuated ego of the misinformed.
Whereas the sages and masters, meditatingly, have proclaimed that knowledge begets humbleness.

Every “realisation”, every awakening has to lead to this ubiquitous commonness, this simplicity that is un-special. That's the true merit of the "experience". And as one traverses the passages it makes one less and less special.