Realising I have a big load of PBL assignment to read, I chose to sit here to write something.
I realised I have abandoned my blog for a long time, not because I am really that busy, but simply because of I am obeying the Principle of Conservation of Energy which will be:
“Energy is not destroyed or either created, but preserved or converted into other form”.
Why do I say so?
The initial energy when I reach India when I first came here have stopped me from blogging, and this energy or stopping force is not destroyed or disappeared but simply converted into procrastination and giving self-excuses that I cannot do certain things.
As it gets on day after day, it became a common way to carry out my life and so I do not ever question whether am I really that busy to not update this blog.
It just goes on until I have time to made reflection and convert the energy into a kinetic force to move me.
And so I am here….
We do such things many times in life.
For example, we always feel we cannot do certain subject in our studies no matter how hard we try or even to the smallest thing in life such as facing difficulty to talk to a particular person.
Why?
This is what I call the culture of the mind.
When we have to attempt or carry out anything, when condition is suitable and it arises, we put up a perception or we group certain things under certain category.
For example, A is good and so B is bad, A is nice and so B is ugly, A is hard and so B is easy.
Some think the above is longer some think it is shorter, but mostly that think it is the same
It does not matter what they think, the point is people made different perceptions upon their conditions that had arised
That perception will then be kept in our mind, and we hold on to it without even any questions to them.
That perception before even we realise, become a system of belief in us.
That system of belief before we realise again, make us thought it was a truth.
Everyone is seeking for Truth… Everyone claim to have the Best Truth… However, how true is Truth? Are they true?
As we accepted the truth, it became our practise and soon it became part of us- as I will call it as a habit.
And anything that go against that habit will be taken as WRONG and NOT THE TRUTH.
Because of that, we resisted our self from doing things we think we cannot do.
Because of that, we see certain things as truth when they might not be actually.
Because of that, people that do anything that is not align to our truth, we call them disobedient or unknowledgeable.
Because of that, we dislike people, we discriminate people- to whoever we think that have against “our self-perceived truth”.
Therefore, we find this set of judgement within the society among the diverse community.
Therefore, in our daily cultivation, if we are not aware we are developing the resistance to see the real truth by letting the mind to accept the un-truth then sooner or later, our eyes will be filled by the dust even without realising.
What we belief and undertake might not be the real truth, it is just our mind projection.
We see who we are, we are who we see
What should I do to prevent that then?
Unlearn, relearn and learn is the ultimate process I must learn.
Belief that nothing is permanent and when the time comes for its cessation, contemplation has to be made, rather than feeling upset and revengeful.
To only do that, we need to let go and hold nothing in life no matter how much we think we need it.
Letting go is not the end of what belong to us…
Letting go is the beginning of our ability to control what we had
This includes letting go to what I am saying now.
Whatever I am saying now, you must also let go and do not hold it strongly.
Why do I say so?
In Buddhism, it thought us that the Noble Truth is not to have desire.
However, not to have desire is a kind of desire.
Therefore, having no desire by also not having the desire to not have desire is the actual ultimate goal we try to attain.
Same goes to what is happening here, preaching the truth of not holding any truth strongly so we can see the truth is including to let go of this current truth.
If people have always wondered what the Middle Path is, this is what the Middle Path means.
To keep yourself in the Middle Path, trying it too hard even for the Middle Path will make you not in the Middle Path anymore; therefore the real Middle Path is the ultimate stillness of mind or in simple- REAL MIDDLE.
Middle Path
Therefore, practice anything we want in life with simplicity and balance, then we can see this world a simpler and in a more harmony way.
Free ourself from perception, free ourself from ideas as how the Great Tao Master had beautifully said to begin Tao Te Ching and how I will use it to beautifully end my piece:
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
…
Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.
May all be well and happy!