Stupidity Of Be Yourself Viscerality - Santosh Jha (debian ebook reader txt) 📗

You cannot blame men and women for such behavior. Fear and insecurity is intuitive to most of them. It needs a lot of courage, conviction and wise consciousness to stand fearless and securely confident to say a firm no to all these ‘fairness-cream-business’.

… Not easy; the rationalists understand this and that’s why, they are very compassionate and affectionate about all this ignorance and have firm faith that the picture shall change but we shall have to be patient. The disease is so deep and omnipresent that it shall take time. We need to accept that and be compassionate even with wrong and wrong-followers…

Stupidities are ‘Generic’; intelligence seeks ‘Specificity’ – That’s why human problems have commonality, solutions haven’t: this ‘dualism’ is doorstep of excellence & empowerment…!

Preposterous and naively outlandish it may sound, yet, it seems, stupidity of individual as well as collective humanity is generic and that is why visceral to all beings. However, intelligence is specific, not generic, and something, which does not come with innate body-mind packaging; rather, it is cultivated, evolved and is a learned/unlearned attainment…

This is important acceptance – Being ‘oneself’ is calamitous call for perpetuation of stupidities of generic consciousness, we all are born with. However, this ‘Be Yourself’ stupidity needs to be assigned critical test of ‘self-actualization’ process to travel the road to higher consciousness, which is the specific intelligence of ‘Yourself’. Intelligence is not wired in bodies but are evolved and matured through conscious mind and its empowerment through tough objective process of ‘self-actualization’…

Wisdom for humanity – individual as well as collective, is all about ‘specificity’ of time-space management, not a generic facility, available gratuitously. This dualism of ‘generic’ and ‘specific’ attainments and endowments for humanity is doorstep to empowerment. Empowerment is all about knowing and accepting the mechanism of everything, in our milieus around and within our body and mind…

If we see and accept that for every individual; wisdom and excellence arrives in two different shapes and forms –

First, the Generic wisdom – Innate intelligence, everyone is born with, with varying degree of intensity and seeding. This is raw, precarious and dualistic ‘Yourself’…

Second, the Specific wisdom – Those experiences/learning, we acquire as we grow and lead ourselves into considered and discretionary enterprises of knowledge. This is evolved, matured and non-dualistic ‘Yourself’…

Once we see and accept the idea of generic and specific subjects, within an individual, we shall have ease in attaining excellence and empowerment. We shall see and accept that most stupidities of life and living come to us naturally as it is visceral and commonly innate in all humans. That is why, across the globe, across cultures and identities, human stupidities and troubles have commonality. However, cultures and societies differ in growth, wellness, peace and affluence because the people have evolved and attained different ‘specific’ intelligence…

As simple as this seems, the reality is – Problems of all humanity, irrespective of time and space are common as they emanate out of humanity’s ‘generic’ stupidities. However, solutions for different segments of humans, in different societies and cultures are not common because solutions come from ‘specificity’ of human intelligence, which being an acquired attainment, cannot ever be common.

That is why, all societies and cultures start with common problems but different societies and cultures have different stages of growth and wellness, as solutions are specifically evolved in time and space. Individuals also look similar and have common problems, as all stupidities are ‘generic’, but some individuals have better solutions and lasting peace and poise, as they have uncommon ‘specificity’ of solutions…

We are all used to believing ourselves as some ‘subject’ or ‘protagonist’, doing everything and being the cause of everything. Modern science however says, there are different ‘subjects’ within the broad subject of ‘self’. Hundreds of years back, spiritualism has already said the same thing.

There is a ‘Generic Subject’, which scientists term as the ‘auto-function’ mechanism of our body-mind synchrony. Then, there is a ‘Specific Subject’. This is our reception-mode consciousness.

In our normal daily life, it is this generic subject within us, which is doing everything, as it is the auto-reactive mechanism. It is in times of distress, confusion, extraordinary situations or crisis that the specific subject, which is an entity of non-reactive, receptive mind consciousness, comes to fore and takes good control of life.

We rise up in the morning, ready to go to work, take a train or drive a car, finish off the daily work, come back in the evening, play with kids, have diner and go to bed. The generic subject handles it all quite well; of course with all its stupidities unleashing themselves in its course, we are not even aware of. Usually, for most moments in a day, we never ever deeply feel our subjectivity – the deep feeling that ‘we’ did it all. We seldom have the need for imagining things with deeper inputs from ‘Me’.

However, when there is a crisis, a problem, this generic subject lands in trouble as it has the nature of handling ‘routine’ things, which is instinctive. Problems need specific inputs from subjective imaginations and it is a domain of the reception-mode consciousness of specific subject.

For majority of us, our lives are dominated by the action-mode generic subject and this is because, it is this subject, which deals with routine affairs. The trouble is; we all live in a culture where most success benchmarks are of action-mode. Naturally, the generic subject is hailed as the ‘winner’ and star-performer.

Sadly, reception mode is considered regressive and primitive. It is neither put to use quite often nor is it relied upon as effective tool. The usually ‘winner’ reactive-subject is unconsciously assigned the task of even problem solving and this subject further aggravates the trouble by precariously dressing it up. Generic stupidities should never be assigned the task of ‘specific’ intelligence…!

The reactive-mode generic subject does not seem to have this ‘winning’ ability and leisurely timeframe to ‘undress’ a problem to arrive at ‘naked’ solutions. The receptive-mode specific subject is the ‘master’ of this art, on whom we usually do not rely and relegate to backseat.

The trouble most of us have is this: We have blurred the fine line of distinction between the two modes. Even when, we are supposed to be in ‘receptive mode’, we are ideating in ‘actionable’ patterns. We all live in such a contemporary societal space where every reception is culturally required to be converted into action mode.

Someone said it very innocently but sincerely – “Even when I am hugging and kissing my lover, I am not focusing on the joy of love and satisfaction of intimacy but on the idea that whether I am ‘performing’ well enough as a lover!” Our obsession with ‘actionable’ and ‘performing’ consciousness is corroding the potential joys and abilities of the receptive-mode subject.

There is a Japanese term called Shikan Taza, which is practiced by Zen masters. The word literally means ‘Just Sit’. There are many interpretations of the term as a ‘meditation-art’. However, what it means, in its holistic form is – “Sitting in a state without any tangible and intangible thought for action”.

It is essentially a practice of arriving and staying at ‘receptive-mode’ mechanism of consciousness. Shikan Taza then opens the doors for higher consciousness, where perspective is holistic, assimilative and integrative. Here, problems are naked, unburdened of the dressing up of actionable-fabrics.

In Yoga and Vedic traditions of ancient Oriental world, we also have many such meditative techniques, which look like similar art. This only goes on to establish that wellness and goodness needs, across humanity, irrespective of cultural differences are the same and even the art and science to attain this are similar.

Contemporary world, where the ‘self’ is more challenged for wellness than ever before as we live in very complex world, demanding mad-multitasking, for which our brain is not designed. Also, fast-paced life with competitiveness for survival and wellness being very high, the ‘self’ is always in drift and flux. Once we undress this flux and drift and stand with bare consciousness, we can see, the real, the actual and truly aware ‘self’. This is the process of rising above the stupidities of ‘Be Yourself’ viscerality…!

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...For Finality Of Fruition

It is not that people await good times, the good times also await good people to come and hoist the potential seeded in the soil of future. Good words also wish for good readers, to be in reception of and be in linearity of the innocent intent, which ride on the shoulders of the words, for the finality of their fruition...

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… On Navigation And Expression Of Intent

There has to be a humble admittance – Any word, however well meant and well spelt, is a possible suspect of misinterpretation. There is a simple reason. People are in different consciousnesses and culturally as well as personally inclined to a specific value-summation of utilities. As a writer, it is a huge temptation to take liberties, with not only imaginations but also with the words, as against their common and popular use. Do kindly accept my latitude with language and personal coinages of words, as I understand, many times, they may not conform to popular usages. I share with you whatever is part of my consciousness. All wisdoms say, what stays with you is what sinks in. Wisdom is what we internalize. I share with you whatever I have internalized in my life. This may not be mainstream stuff; but may have utility in some meaningful way. I believe, as a reader, you shall enjoy this novelty and pleasant awkwardness of the writing.

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Thanks For Your Magnanimity, The First Chapter Begins...

CHAPTER 1

There is this primeval, ubiquitous and transcendental question about purpose of life. Somehow, this question spares none, at least most. This itself suggests, the question essentially is not a question but an instinctive mechanism, a wired situation, an embedded cognition in our consciousness; somehow a visceral drive of humans in general. If something is common in a species, if a behavior and action is universal in all members of a species, it needs to be accepted that it is then wired in body-mind mechanism.

However, this also then suggests, as the question or a life-situation is there in all of us, there also must be answer wired in our body-mind mechanism itself. This hypothesis needs to be tested and understood well as it may lead us to larger wellness.

Somehow, it seems; this correlational incidence of question-answer and problem-solution being installed in the common structures of our body-brain mechanism is the beauty and magnificence of life and living. We have so-called questions about life and living, ingrained deep inside our neural make-up of brain states and therefore, every one of us has this question. There are so much of differences in physiological, sociological, cultural and psychological milieus for over seven billion people on earth, still the question’s singularity probably proves, it is probably wired in our core mechanism.

Naturally, as humanity has successfully survived and thrived for over 4million years, there must be the right answer of this ubiquitous question in the same neural make-up of our brain states. It seems, many humans have understood the question right and deciphered the appropriate answer, otherwise human survival itself would have been in question. However, it is also very clear that in all stages of human civilization, most humans have neither understood the question not deciphered the true answer. The human history of perpetual chaos, conflict and confusion only proves this.

It seems, it is about accepting a question inside our minds as some bio-chemical-neural situation; like hunger. What we feel and call as Hunger or Thirst, are also like ‘questions’, which happen because of a bio-chemical-neural situation within our body-mind mechanism. Naturally, the question of hunger and thirst has answer also within the same mechanism, with another set of bio-chemical-neural situation…! It is essentially about a higher cognition of our bio-chemical-neural mechanism…

Somehow, from our own life-living-experiences we know and accept that solution of problems is not a big task. If you have a problem, we already know it that solution