Saturday, November 14, 2009

Dreaming Up Awakeness: Buddha avec Lacan

It is always so, that illusion is more real than reality itself, and that is how you identify the illusion from the real – not by its illusoriness for that would be begging the question but by the extent and intensity of its realness...

Self-Refractions - 39

Having finally left that which was so intimately dear to you that it belonged to the most private spaces of your emotions, with the course of time doesn't the memory of it seem like it was from a different lifetime, like you are not so much reminiscing but more like recollecting the life of someone else? Ah... and you never know, someday you even talk about it with some stranger you just met on a train journey as if you had dreamt it all up, the entire episode of those times I mean... or maybe you just did...

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Self-Refractions - 38

I guess its high time that one makes space for those questions for which answers are not the right answers... and with that, one comes dangerously in close contact with ways to free oneself from the almost-ubiquitous prejudice of holding onto the Input/Output Philosophy (like Input a Question, and Output an Answer)...

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Stoicism avec J. Krishnamurti

That which is self-caused, cannot be made to happen.

And Virtue being its own reward, does not have an end outside of itself and thus cannot be made complaint to any goal based activity, and thus, cannot be practiced (to make it happen). It simply happens if it has to, on its own accord, with its own rhythm, humming its own music. Such things are best accrued as a gift...

Infact... as long as there remains a theory according to which there will be the practice of it, such practice can never be responsible for the coming into being of the self-caused activity. However, the acausal act may still show itself inspite of all that... and as it is not caused by an other-than, it is not bound in time, and thus, remains always already present even in its apparent absence. And it cannot be made to come, as also it cannot be made to go...

Authenticity: Just As...

The question of honesty is not so much in accordance to the act but to the intention(s) behind it.
Like: The question is not so much whether I lie or not, but whether I am lying to myself about the fact of lying...

And thus honesty is not about expression or action. Its solely about Intention, - being in touch with the Intention(s) of the moment, being the space for the flowering of the Intention(s) to whatever comes (either thru expression or action). And so only in Awareness can honesty come into being, irrespective of whether there be any significant register(s) of it either in expression (by an other) or thru action (as per the consequence), be it to someone or according to some ideology.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

There is but only one suffering...

There is but only one suffering, that of confusion, be it expressed as some social conflict or the much intimate experience of choice when we are faced with the unavoidable situation of the having-to-chose-not-knowing-how. All other forms of suffering can either be dealt with, or are endurable one way or another...

And confusion arises when somewhere somehow there always already exists a Way, but that which not being according to the whims and prejudices of the theoretical world upheld so far, is denied or suppressed, that is, all confusion is due to the denial of the what-is because it does not suit the what-should-be, that is, it’s a confusion between the what-is with/as the what-should-be...

...for if you really did not know what-to-do, you would just plain "give up", but because you think (which is ideal) you know better when you actually don't (no wonder you think the actual is unjustified and the ideal should be in place), and then you feel all the more psyched up to take on the onus of choice.


PS. In the Psychologically realm, more so of emotions than thoughts, freedom is not be associated with choice and "individual rights". That ways the pre-Socratic Greeks and even the Vedic people were spot on :)

Seeing the Spiral...

Much of life rests in seeing the difference between the two kinds of rests, - the rest of one who never started the journey from the rest of one who has returned from that journey...

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Must It Be Expressed?

Honesty is not about speaking the truth. It’s about seeking out the false, its about perceiving the true from the false by seeing the false as false. And when it is so, there be no question of speaking or the suppressing of it. Truth expresses itself as & thru that perception... for Silence is the language of truth.

MarginSpeak...

Brothels. Cremation Grounds. Railways Stations, Airports.

I especially like places which serve as some sort of a portal, in the vicinity of which I feel like am approaching some kinda inter-dimensional gateway...

The Myth of Motion...

All perceivable motion expresses itself thru some or other form of acceleration...

Sunday, November 1, 2009

The Word Is Not The Thing...

“Physics does not tell us how nature is; it only tells us what we can say about nature.”
- Niels Bohr.

Betwixt Social & Psychological Revolutions

Are your revolting against the Other, or are you questioning the very otherness of & as the Other? If so, then won't you rather take a moment to look in the mirror of such a so-perceived strained relationship to see that in what way do you embody that very otherness that you so project "of & as" the Other? In what way, does Alterity (re-)surface in the domain of your relationships with the world for you are always already, never really apart from, but a being in-the-world?

The moot point is not much "What are you revolting against?" insofar as it is about "Who exactly is revolting?" Let there be an inquiry wherein these two questions remain in an ongoing dialogue with each other...

Saturday, October 31, 2009

lost ca(u)se...

Makes me wonder these days, that: Do most, if not all, aspects and events of conventional reality, with all its socio-political equations and their economic justifications - start off (from) being a lost case?

Friday, October 30, 2009

Thought as a System

The only way the limited can go on unlimited is by going in circles.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Self-Refractions - 37

Curing is the process of getting back, or returning to the state before the disease happened. But healing is Accepting the Problem (when u cant change it) and accordingly integrating it with the rest of your life so you can receive fate in the new light...

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Are you nowhere?

Not everything in life is amenable to the act of taking-a-decision. Like you can’t decide to be happy; it just doesn’t work that way. You either are or you ain't. And you can't decide to feel beauty, you can't decide to live in truth. And you can't decide to love. They sometimes happen to be and then they just don't. Infact the best things in life can’t be made into the targets of our life-long projects; they do come, but always as companions of other things, always uninvited, on its own terms, with its own rhythm...

However, what we can live for is a little less conflict, a little room of excess space, a little bit of free time to waste, a little privilege of slowing down from time to time, a little moment to remain in silence, a little kindness to ourselves, a little warmth for whosoever we hug, - these little slices that make up for an opening in our hearts, an opening which chides with the possibilities of some of the best things that just might pop up all of sudden, though in some of the most brief flashes of faith & fortitude... for you never know, all we can do is keep on learning the art of minimal interference, so we can let that be... you never know, that might just pop in right now, right here...

Sunday, October 18, 2009

On the Network of Power

Unless a couple remains in the field of their co-influence, how does each feel out that the other exists?

Self-Refractions - 36

Do you think you are in any way more involved in the universe than the stone or the star?

poetry perpetuating more poetry...

There are things which have an immediate hold on one’s heart, something that is so akin to all works of great poetry, which if I am then asked to articulate or in some way justify, I would be at a loss... for they have too many things to say that no set of concrete words can embody, except maybe thru another poetry, - yes only that can serve as a somewhat probable response to such works of art.

And there you go: Poetry answered by poetry, or to say it more precisely, poetry that inspires poetry from the reader, poetry perpetuating more poetry, - now that is the hallmark of every great work of art.