Have you ever wondered about why we constantly blame, fault find and appear to be constantly dissatisfied?
Have you ever asked yourself: do I need to be frustrated, angry, anxious, unstable?
Here lies the secret, that most of us do not see, because our perception is divided.
What are we talking about?
You see, we all talk about the Mind without really knowing what we are talking about.
What is Mind? Well, ask your psychologist about it and see what kind of answer you get! You will be amazed! They think that mind is thought!
As if nothing else exists without thought!
Their father is Descartes who is famous for "Cogito Ergo Sum" translated as "I think therefor I am" as if when you don't think somehow you stop existing.
The Mind is nothing other than Consciousness, Universal, Eternal and Measureless, Timeless, Omnipresent.
The Mind is endowed with Perception; Perception is a Field, not unlike the Quantum Field.
Within the Perceptual Field we have the Content of Perception which is lit by Awareness, the Light of Consciousness.
An experience is therefore an act of awareness of the movement within the content of perception.
We are then endowed (for better or for worse) with knowledge, which conceptualises the experience according to precedents.
To know is to measure, and compare. If you want to know how much you weigh, you weigh yourself. And by comparing yourself to others, you are fat or skinny. It is clear.
But suppose you don't compare yourself, what happens then? You remain unique and within your own nature. You are as you are and remain in your true nature. But we don't seem to be satisfied with being; we want to know what Being is. But how do you know the Unknowable, measure the Measureless? And here follows the trap.
We conceptualise experience and name it, compare it and wee seem to grasp something, to our foolish delight!
Which means the experience is defined and interpreted, being given a meaning according to the past, to what we know. So we add more to the past, more to the backpack.
On that basis, we like or dislike the experience. But the experience si not going to change for us, it does not care whether we like it or not. Get it? Tough!
This creates our Schema, or our GPS that guides us through the world of experience.
But the GPS is not the real experience, just like the map is not the territory. It is memory superimposed onto the present experience.
Yet as we try to superimpose the map on the territory, when the territory does not fit into our map, we get crossed. We become angry, dissatisfied, pissed off and the like. We have an idea about what the World should be like and when it is not like that, we spit the dummy!
And because we do not realise that the conflict we experience is the result of the discrepancy between our old GPS mapping, because the GPS mapping is always old and lagging behind the present experience, we then tend to blame. We refuse to see that our GPS is faulty, narrow and prejudiced or biased.
Blaming means the unwillingness to see that it our faulty GPS lenses that create conflict. That we are responsible for our experience, because we define it, we attract it and we experience it. Nobody else.
The division exists when the map looks at the experience from a divide point of view: and that is by comparison. We compare the new with the old and we therefor resist change. We are afraid of change. We call it The Unknown.
But there is no such thing as the Unknown. Another clever and insidious trap by the GPS (Egoic Mind) because all there is is the End of the Known. Which means the Known cannot at anytime represent the Present Moment because itself is the product fo the past, and it resists the present unfoldment as it has no control over it. So within Perception, we have two Forces at work: the Forces for Sameness i.e the GPS, and the Forces for Change, of Creativity and Unfoldment.
So anxiety, insecurity, sleeplessness are some of the results of the discrepancy between these two forces.
What does this mean?
Well, the GPS is stored in Memory. Therefor the Conscious part of the mind that operates when awake, unlike in dreams, is solely relying on old information to make sense of the new. And it can't because it is limited to what it has previously experienced.
When the Conscious Mind is aligned with Memory, all we have is conflict. That is not to say that memory is useless.
But in the Field of Perception it is: because it alters Perception from Pure, Unfolding, to Remembered.
So what then? There is another part of the mind called the Subconscious; it is the closest to the Source of All Things, and that is where Manifestation begins to occur.
That is what the Occult studies are about. But for that wee need to trust the process, as the Gestalt practitioners would put it.
We need to have Faith, as religion would have it. Faith in the Source, that the Source is good.
But guess what? We can be Co-Creators, and we are, believe it or not. But more on this in another article.
So what of Blame and Irresponsibility?
When the perception is not divided, objectified and resisted, which is an act of desire, perception is integrative. You get to keep your cool.
The person knows that this is their reality, their perception alone and there is no need to modify it, but to live it and marvel at it.
Once the perception occurs in a PURE, undivided way, only then we know what is the right thing to do.
But for that to occur, we must put aside the GPS and stop it from meddling in the act of Perception, and allow the mind to feel lost.
The feeling of lost is the transition between the Conscious min being aligned with Memory (Egoic Mind) and re-aligned with the Subconscious beginnings of manifestation.
Some of the Zen meditators and other mystics talk about "feeling lost" and "being found" again, and one of them is the late Father Bede Griffiths who so eloquently talks about it in this short video.
There are books on this transition such as "The Cloud of Unknowing" and "The Dark Night of The Soul" among others.
It is only when every human in this world acknowledges and owns their experience and stops blaming and fault finding that the Eyes of the World will open and we will live in True Love and Harmony.
You too can start this by investigating the mental phenomena by meditation, introspection, observation.
And you can do this know or as soon as you finish reading this lines or at a time of your choice soon after you stop thinking about it.
Have you ever wondered about why we constantly blame, fault find and appear to be constantly dissatisfied?
Have you ever asked yourself: do I need to be frustrated, angry, anxious, unstable?
Here lies the secret, that most of us do not see, because our perception is divided.
What are we talking about?
You see, we all talk about the Mind without really knowing what we are talking about.
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