Thursday, February 24, 2011

Understanding why not happening despite our efforts

Understanding why not happening despite our efforts

In the process of communication unless and until the participants have the same meaning / understanding of various abstract words/concepts/great fundas like God, blessings, self-realisation , etc. ( written in the scriptures or in the sayings of great persons), the desired level of communication can never happen .

Further majority of us have misconceptions about these words because of non-thinking (chintan) from various angles because we are enveloped by prejudices or we lack scientific temperament.

Osho used to say that "My whole effort is to restart the process of chintan once again in India which is not seen/visible anymore. We have forgotten the chintan. The people are just living in a mechanical/unconscious way. Due to the chintan only all the upanishads and other such treasures came to the light or revealed."

One must keep in mind that all the letters of alphabet, words, sentences, phrases,etc. are nothing but concepts invented/used by individuals as pointers . They are not truth in themselves. Further they are nothing but sounds produced by the body in reaction to some outer or inner happenings and these sounds were tried to be represented with the help of some scribbling on paper by various people depending upon their conditioning/training of scripts.

Shri U.G. Krishnamurthi used to say that " There is no difference between my speaking and a dog barking in the street. Both are sounds. Only you people go on interpreting the sounds coming from this instrument called U.G. as you want to interpret according to your conditioning."

The precondition for happening of true understanding is that one must accept that his/her understanding of a word/concept may not be true unless that is supported with evidences in day to day life or is helpful in explaining various phenomenon up to great extent if not fully eg. nobody has seen the electrons(in atom) but the concept has helped a lot in understanding various other concepts/truth.

To have the same meaning/understanding is almost an impossibility, hence true/perfect/correct communication fails to happen. This is mainly because of our conditioning from childhood, the quality of software which helps in expressing the experiences.

Therefore discussion/debate/dialogue are continuously going on especially in so called spirituality without reaching to the point/truth/goal so that only silence can prevail.

However this is possible only and only when the participants become one i.e. feeling of separateness (which is an illusion from a different angle) vanishes/dissolves with the help of innocence/openness

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