Therefore, stick only to what you know. Which is what? Psychologically, what is the one thing you know without any shadow of doubt?
Suffer! Donāt just talk about it. The talking about it, the thinking about it and the search for a way out of it is not the suffering. So, suffer. If this is your actual state of being, then it is your responsibility to be it one hundred percent, wholly. Otherwise, you are being irresponsible.
Sir, I feel that my answer to this question is, the aspect of investigation from the unknown state is effective compared to the state of mind having preconception. (It may sound over-confident but I felt that)
Friends, I got some questions from my perspective,
What does it take to see the evidence, which is just a reflection of our life? Is it possible to change the inner dynamics in the state of inattention (or in swings)? What kind of traits does Jiddu have in his lifestyle, such that he is able to see the truth?
No, psychologically, what do you know about yourself? The one thing about you that is undeniable, irrefutable.
I say to you, āWho are you?ā Whatās your answer to me? Not a theoretical answer to the world, but your answer to me.
I do not have a fixed answer, as the question it pointing to my whole life.
Who are you? I want to know who you are and why you are here. Thatās the motive or the impetus or the energy behind the question. Whatās your immediate answer to it? Before you put anything into words, what is the feeling of being faced with this question? Donāt look into the distance at your whole life, but stay with me in this relationship now as one mind questioning another mind.
No worries, suffering is always there, whether we own it consciously or not. Itās as intertwined with our moment-to-moment experience as our sense of ego-self.
Where? Where is the āthereā? Memory. There is nowhere else it can be. So your suffering is a dead thing. Would you accept this statement?
( Sometimes suffering is right there in consciousness. Sometimes it is either hidden away in the unconscious or stored as potential in memory. )
Without memory would there be any suffering? I donāt know, but I doubt it. If I look within to my various sufferings, they all seem driven by painful past experiences retrieved from memory.
But when you look back, you are not looking at suffering; you are looking at the memory or the imprint of suffering, where everything is all a safe distance. The real psychological pain is right now. The looking back to old, unresolved hurts is a mechanism to avoid this fact. Because we think our suffering is in the past, we have power over it and it has power over us, which is the same thing; it is a co-dependent relationship. But to face the actual pain of the present moment, the utter loneliness of being alive right now, this seems for most of us to be bearable only when we have a past which can act as a filter to explain and decorate the confusion of the present. Can we instead look at what is here right now without any reference to the past?
What are you right now? Donāt even think about it. But meet the question without any searching for a clever answer.
Yes, all ārealā perceptions and feelings and thoughts and memories are happening right now.
But to dismiss the past is to dismiss causality, and that would be silly. Things come from somewhere/sometime, the present emerges from the past.
That I can be mistaken.
You are not meeting my question. What are you right now? Who are you?
I can be mistaken, which means not only that I can make my own mistakes, but also I can be seduced or tricked by the mistakes of others. So I donāt want to be taken for a fool - thatās the feeling behind all this, isnāt it?
A body-mind organism.
Thatās a very cold answer. You are not telling me anything at all. We are both body/mind organisms. My question is: who are you? Donāt tell me the obvious, superficial fact. Tell me what I donāt know, which is the deep psychological reason why you are here. If you say, āSorry, I donāt know,ā that may be because you donāt want to reveal it so openly. The body needs food, water and shelter. What is it your mind wants? It is this want which has brought you here. Psychologically, thatās what you are, just as it is for me and for anyone else here.
And I want to know who you are. Thatās me. Thatās why I am here. Does it make a little more sense now?
I am an average person having motives in life. There was no feeling but I thought what you might feel if I say. Why it is difficult to answer such existential questions?
Now that you mention it, I looked it up, and it seems most of the talk here throughout the blog, is in the mode of an existential response.
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So you are aware that human feelings can be a minefield - is that it?