Are we, human beings, prisoners of our own minds? The trees, animals, atmosphere, and the entire universe are constantly functioning under some mysterious "law". The scientists have been trying to make sense of the same almost whole of their lives but they hardly get one little glimpse of the same in their lifetime, as if "nature" just wants to reveal its secrets at a "pre-scheduled" time. Apple was falling forever on this Earth so why did the same attract the attention of Newton/ Even Newton would have seen many apples falling before that moment in his life. Archimedes would have been taking a bath in his tub, many times in his life before getting that grand idea.
Our little brains try to make sense of the universe. In fact, most people make a very primitive sense of life and live the whole of their lives within the confinements of that meaning. I like this and dislike that, this is right and that is wrong, this is moral and that is immoral. We spend our entire lives "judging" ourselves and others within that limited framework of life that we acquired due to our limited exposure to life. Sometimes we become so finicky about these frameworks that we become insecure and try to defend our frameworks aggressively. Many battles have been fought over ideas and religions in almost every corner of the world.
No doubt. the same "nature" is operating in each of our cells and in fact much deeper. The same nature of working at a sub-atomic level is probably all living beings and non-living beings. Who knows even the differentiation between living and non-living beings is also based on the limited perspective of the mind. The universe is expanding constantly and based on the categorization taught to us, the universe is non-living. How is it expanding in that case? How has it evolved from a dot to billions of galaxies each of the galaxies comprising 100s of billions of stars. What if the "mind", we give so much premium to, is itself very limited and we are a slave in that narrow prison?
First of all our mind itself is so limited like a movie theatre and there too we have been playing movies constantly on its limited screen of thoughts. These thoughts keep us occupied and we keep diving the entire world between "right" and "wrong", "like" and "dislike", and "good" and "bad". Whatever movie we have seen in our minds becomes the yardstick to evaluate "good" and "bad". We hardly get any occasion in our lifetime to move out of the theatre and look at the vastness of life. We keep making mental stories one after the other.
Sometimes the "weight of thoughts" becomes so heavy that we just want to get rid of that at least for some time and we take the help of liquor, cigarettes, and certain drugs. We feel that we will become free but that freedom lasts just for a little time and the very next morning we feel worse. I don't know why we are so averse to the idea of "awareness". There are always little spaces between the thoughts and the moment we explore those little spaces, they offer wonderful insights about life to us. They are small windows of opportunity for us to come out of the prison of the mind. Small intervals to come out of the theatre and look at the vastness of life. Life is too vast to be depressed unless we are fixated on the theatre of our thoughts. This false sense of superiority of being conscious as human beings, as against the whole of the universe, is not taking us anywhere. We just need to awaken to reality and connect "that little awareness" we have to the wider and larger "awareness".
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