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VITA KRANC
What does it mean to be stucked?
Who creates the quality and definition of stuckeness?
There is no universal and general definition of it.
Isn´t it just your mind that believes that you are stucked?
Being absorbed and fully dependend on mind´s assumptions and scenarios we become small entity within our mind´s world.
Life is always as it is. But our mind wants it different. Mind based on patterns of the separate self.
Seperate self has a lot of expectations how life should look like. Seperate self makes goals on its spiritual path towards perfection. Towards “liberated” separate reality. In which it is safe. In which whole life unfolds based on its expectations and wishes.
Separate self desires “painless” state of certaintly.
Separate self wishes to live forever, never get ill, staying in its comfort zone where is no flexibility and no many changes.
And we suffer, we belive to be the separate self.
I have good and “bad” news for you.
Let´s start with the good one: SEPARATE SELF IS NOT THERE!
The “bad” one is: Life is a process, everything in life has its beginning and the end. Between that there is one change after another. Ever changing presence.
Body is under the process of dessolution. It will go through various changes, including illness and death.
Comfort zone does not exist. The separate bubble is just the illusion.
Mind is just the experience, same as feelings, sights, sounds, emotions, etc.
So be aware and watch its tricks do get you involved. To become part of its story.
You are not stucked!
- stuckness is a label
- “you” that is believed to be you is not real
You have never been stucked!
Dont believe your mind´s dreams about yourself…
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Scientists all agree that there is no definable boundary between life and death; we can't tell exactly just when life begins, or when it ends. Moreover, the now is but an ever-renewing, bubbling, churning cycle of birth and death, decay and regeneration. Before you finish reading this paragraph, millions of cells in your body will have died and been replaced. From galaxies to atoms, everything constantly births, dies, and transforms. We are made of elemental stardust, and to stardust we return.
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Charvaka: The Ancient Indian School Of Thought That Preached Atheism And Rationality
More from Rajit Roy
India has always been a land of ideas. Our civilisation has evolved enormously over time and so has our views of the world. Philosophy is deeply rooted in our culture. The ancient wisdom of the Vedas, the Puranas, and even the Buddhist and Jain schools of thought have left a deep impression on our collective mythology and cultural heritage.
Nonetheless, the Hindu religion has predominantly been polytheistic with immensely diverse narratives. Today this faith is so predominant in our conscience that any scope for atheism and radical rationalism often becomes heresy. Even Buddhist and Jain spirituality have a supernatural connotation. However, more detailed analyses of these religious and philosophical texts do provide clues that reveal that atheistic materialism was indeed a part of India’s ancient legacy.
Charvaka, otherwise called Lokayata, emerged as one of the earliest materialist schools of thought, long before Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, that is, before the west started reassessing its beliefs in God. Lokayata, as the name infers, is the ‘philosophy of the real world’. The Charvakas denied the existence of God, or rather the existence of anything that was unverifiable.
Their epistemology emphasised on perception/evidence (pramana) and observation (anubhava) of the real, material world and to subject the inferences thus obtained to doubt. Only thus could the truth be found. That, perhaps, was the beginning of logic and scientific theory – a legacy often misattributed. Surprisingly, evidence for such ideas is found in the great Hindu epic Ramayana: “O, the highly wise! Arrive at a conclusion, therefore, that there is nothing beyond this Universe. Give precedence to that which meets the eye and turn your back on what is beyond our knowledge.”
Charvaka ethics was one of hedonism. They believed in sensual pleasures as the only true purpose of human existence and denied any obligations for an afterlife, or karma. There was, however, a sense of subjective moral principle of avoiding pain and suffering in the process of pleasure. Death was considered an eventuality and therefore, to live one’s life to the fullest was the only wise act.
“While life is yours, live joyously;
None can escape Death’s searching eye:
When once this frame of ours they burn,
How shall it e’er again return?”
But why do we need to reconsider Charvaka again?
In a world filled with hatred born out of differences in firmly established and seemingly unquestionable beliefs, the Charvakas teach us that scepticism is the way to liberation. To observe, to think, and to act only as per the rational argument is what science too has been telling us. The legacy of the Lokayata is one of a liberal approach to faith. It holds us responsible for our actions rather than comforting us with the utopia of dharma and karma.
Perhaps a saner world is possible only when people are not afraid of questioning dogmatic belief systems and instead work tirelessly to build a life that creates happiness for all.
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In The Transparency of Thingsyou say, ‘our experience is one of a stream of appearances in consciousness, A, B, C, D, E, and each disappears absolutely before the next arises’. Is my following understanding correct?
As the lit torch which when twirled appears to be a solid circle of fire, so the speed of molecules and atoms makes the world appear to be solid and continuous. As a movie film run through a projector gives the illusion of solidity and movement on a movie screen, but actually is a series of stills, so the world is actually a fast-moving series of ‘stills’, appearing solid and continuous but able to be seen through as a transparency.
This means there is no past,and it completely removes the burden of the past. There is only now,with A, B, C, D, E occurring, and ‘each disappears absolutely before the next arises’.
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