ABCD of dilemma of life is as to
what to Accept, Believe, Choose, Decide etc.
Culprits are comfort zones,
confirmation biases, identity or ideology fixation /veneration and inevitable
requirement of security of status and all these leading to fear of the unknown.
The human mind is a pendulum set in
motion and swinging between the influences of pleasure on one side and pressure
of the well accepted and appreciated methods etc on the other side and this
swinging pendulum in constant motion along with a huge curtain of many other
things together block our view of seeing anything new.
Life is an unmapped atlas which gets
its maps based on our choices, beliefs, actions, reactions, thoughts, attitudes
etc and it is in our hands to make each one of these continents as great and as
good as possible. That’s why in every subject new and startling discoveries and
newer revelations emerge every day, some reinforcing existing facts , some
refuting existing facts etc and this happens in all spheres including science,
archeological evidences, genetic evidences ,DNA studies etc.
We are programmed by habit and
constant preconditioning to create defenses against and make fences around us
towards anything new [it could be good, better, best or bad I desist from using
the usual good, bad and ugly as it has more negatives] that crop up in us or
around us. It is a sort of protectionism that goes to envelop in some specific
identity or label and further firm up our prejudices and prevent us from
experiencing the new. Gradually this identity creates such strong concrete
walls that enforce us to experience life only in terms of what is approved of
by and within the ambit of that identity.
Idries Shah the great Sufi writer says in
Reflections
“You have not forgotten to
remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.”
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.”
"Existence consists in the
interplay of a plurality of elements whose true nature is indescribable and
whose source is unknown. Combinations of these elements instantaneously flash
into existence and instantaneously disappear, to be succeeded by new
combinations of elements appearing in a strict causality." - Earle
Ernst, The Kabuki Theatre
