Towards The Truth

The quote " Change is the only constant " appears to be one of the commonest one floating around.
But when it comes to experiential level , we live very differently.
With every year comes a new goal , a new planning , a new ideology which keeps us busy.Some of them stay for a longer time and some leave us too soon.Irrespective of their duration ,they all succeed in creating a sense of permanency in our mind. The idea that each of our present goal /ideology / thought is here to stay for eternity,  makes sure we never come out of this loop.
Taking example from my own life. When I was 15-16 , I dreamt of becoming scientist and held science with utmost respect .Then during the college life I changed into a easy going boy who only cared to live , travel new places and have full fun. This was the stage when studies took the back  seat (many of my school friends still doubt it and of course my parents ) and my philosophy about life started changing yet again.From science to social service was my new mantra along with lots of travel and fun all the time constituted my novel attitude.Then by the final years social service took the back seat(science was perhaps out of the car) and I started fantasizing about Computer science , high on-campus placement offers( remember how my dreams are changing and  exactly how they follow the circumstances around). I was now feeling like I am made for the coding (blend of maths and easy money). But unable to meet the immediate dreams , my philosophy again started taking turns. Presently  I am into changing myself from the core etc (spirituality and meditations ).
 But what has started intriguing me now is the fact how every time I failed to realize , all the changes were temporary and purely circumstantial. I never really did anything out of choice.All I had was 2-3 choices out of billions of other choices .And even in that 2-3 choices it was purely out of circumstances , I ended up choosing that. Even the greater irony was in assuming that the ""choice"" was the result of my freedom to live. Adding to this cake of ignorance was the assumption my current state was permanent .And I could end up fighting(of course avoiding a physical argument ) to prove my point/philosophy.

Sadly this happens with almost everyone whom we meet in our everyday life .But the saddest part is , even when we are on our deathbed we fail to realize this (simple) nature's law that we are in nature's lap (not the other way around)and we die with this crown of ignorance. 

The truth that  " all of us are undergoing continuous change and yet not able to realize/experience this  " remains hidden from most of us.
        Why dont we notice this simple phenomenon . Why dont we see ourselves contradicting  our very own thoughts which had kept us busy a year ago. If someone points out for us we disguise it into self improvement etc . But again the changes come.We hardly notice.
 Actually we keep happening by accident . Any thought or idea or philosophy comes and hijacks us and makes us believe that this ""idea /thought" is the ultimate . During this period when we are romanticizing with a particular idea , that idea becomes the significant part of our life/soul. We are so much attached to it that we start seeing everything using the filter of that idea and when the doomsday comes for our "idea/dream" we get horrified and scared.We start feeling the vacuum created by the absence of it. Yet soon our old idea smoothly gets transitioned to new one and rarely giving us a time to stop and ponder upon it.
     My point basically is , what if we undergo all this change exactly the same way as we do but with a eye to keep a watch on it. We keep changing ourselves even our behavior and personality but consciously.
This has the power to liberate us from the suffering.Before delving into this lets explore the cause of suffering.
Suffering occurs when our old idea gets into the phase of transition .And this transition hurts because it creates a feeling of being left alone .It makes us  feel as if something very dear to us is leaving us. This is very ironical as cause of  suffering can be as simple as this but the consequences can be very explosive (likes of suicide, depression etc).
 What I am trying to say is (not I but all sages since ages , I am just chanting their words) once we become conscious of how these changes occur within us , how we gradually switch from one idea to other we  begin to realize the futility of  the seriousness of these ideas in our life . The reason being they all our happening by accidents which means our ideas are 100% conditioned to surroundings.(  a 18 year child in India can be mad for clearing engineering entrance , a man in ISIS can be mad for converting the whole world into islam , a woman in USA might be fighting feminism etc). Again I am not saying we should end all of it . All these things in the material world will continue to happen but if we are conscious that our dreams and passions our just the repercussions of the society nearby or just any external influence , we will not take this bondage with our "idea" seriously .Consequently our happiness will never be the function of these ideas( whether they fail or succeed ). 

Why we miss the truth

Continued .. from last post

The truth that  " all of us are undergoing continuous change and yet not able to realize/experience this  " remains hidden from most of us.
        Why dont we notice this simple phenomenon . Why dont we see ourselves contradicting  our very own thoughts which had kept us busy a year ago. If someone points out for us we disguise it into self improvement etc . But again the changes come.We hardly notice.
 Actually we keep happening by accident . Any thought or idea or philosophy comes and hijacks us and makes us believe that this ""idea /thought" is the ultimate . During this period when we are romanticizing with a particular idea , that idea becomes the significant part of our life/soul. We are so much attached to it that we start seeing everything using the filter of that idea and when the doomsday comes for our "idea/dream" we get horrified and scared.We start feeling the vacuum created by the absence of it. Yet soon our old idea smoothly gets transitioned to new one and rarely giving us a time to stop and ponder upon it.
     My point basically is , what if we undergo all this change exactly the same way as we do but with a eye to keep a watch on it. We keep changing ourselves even our behavior and personality but consciously.
This has the power to liberate us from the suffering.Before delving into this lets explore the cause of suffering.
Suffering occurs when our old idea gets into the phase of transition .And this transition hurts because it creates a feeling of being left alone .It makes us  feel as if something very dear to us is leaving us. This is very ironical as cause of  suffering can be as simple as this but the consequences can be very explosive (likes of suicide, depression etc).
 What I am trying to say is (not I but all sages since ages , I am just chanting their words) once we become conscious of how these changes occur within us , how we gradually switch from one idea to other we  begin to realize the futility of  the seriousness of these ideas in our life . The reason being they all our happening by accidents which means our ideas are 100% conditioned to surroundings.(  a 18 year child in India can be mad for clearing engineering entrance , a man in ISIS can be mad for converting the whole world into islam , a woman in USA might be fighting feminism etc). Again I am not saying we should end all of it . All these things in the material world will continue to happen but if we are conscious that our dreams and passions our just the repercussions of the society nearby or just any external influence , we will not take this bondage with our "idea" seriously .Consequently our happiness will never be the function of these ideas( whether they fail or succeed ).

A different take on "change"

The quote " Change is the only constant " appears to be one of the commonest one floating around.
But when it comes to experiential level , we live very differently.
With every year comes a new goal , a new planning , a new ideology which keeps us busy.Some of them stay for a longer time and some leave us too soon.Irrespective of their duration ,they all succeed in creating a sense of permanency in our mind. The idea that each of our present goal /ideology / thought is here to stay for eternity,  makes sure we never come out of this loop.
Taking example from my own life. When I was 15-16 , I dreamt of becoming scientist and held science with utmost respect .Then during the college life I changed into a easy going boy who only cared to live , travel new places and have full fun. This was the stage when studies took the back  seat (many of my school friends still doubt it and of course my parents ) and my philosophy about life started changing yet again.From science to social service was my new mantra along with lots of travel and fun all the time constituted my novel attitude.Then by the final years social service took the back seat(science was perhaps out of the car) and I started fantasizing about Computer science , high on-campus placement offers( remember how my dreams are changing and  exactly how they follow the circumstances around). I was now feeling like I am made for the coding (blend of maths and easy money). But unable to meet the immediate dreams , my philosophy again started taking turns. Presently  I am into changing myself from the core etc (spirituality and meditations ).
 But what has started intriguing me now is the fact how every time I failed to realize , all the changes were temporary and purely circumstantial. I never really did anything out of choice.All I had was 2-3 choices out of billions of other choices .And even in that 2-3 choices it was purely out of circumstances , I ended up choosing that. Even the greater irony was in assuming that the ""choice"" was the result of my freedom to live. Adding to this cake of ignorance was the assumption my current state was permanent .And I could end up fighting(of course avoiding a physical argument ) to prove my point/philosophy.

Sadly this happens with almost everyone whom we meet in our everyday life .But the saddest part is , even when we are on our deathbed we fail to realize this (simple) nature's law that we are in nature's lap (not the other way around)and we die with this crown of ignorance. 

Lets get aware of grass

 It wont take more than 5 minutes of speculation(honesty is indeed needed) to reach to a conclusion that whatever we have been (most of us)  in our life , most of the experiences were more of derived ones from family , media, religion, country rather than being original.
 Right from the childhood going through the same academics(cbse,icse , b.tech) , playing only those few games and hence doing the same kind of mistakes and getting the same kind of responses as well from the people and nature around.The older we become, our surrounding's(and we as well) tolerance towards our variations(independence) keeps on reducing and fortunately we are quite smart to adapt to that.

Finally most of us going through the same funnel(a job or more newly a startup, phd) of life . Basically variables which define us keep on decreasing but in our mind we keep on becoming big. Those few variables now become our life.Our consciousness becomes smaller and worldly influence on our mind is as strong as mountains. I don't mean anywhere that I am against marriage , formal education etc. My concern is (of course for me as well may be that's why I am writing here) we human beings are becoming clones of each other. We are proudly saying we are unique but than we are becoming the next men in the house , city , college. The data gathered in our mind is determining our course of life which unfortunately is uniform throughout the mankind and hence the consequences are clone human beings.
We all need  certificates to prove our worth , we all need  marriage to lead a satisfying life, we all become agitated at once , we all become lovely in the next moment . Point is not to boycott marriage , education system but to realize that these decisions should come from our core and not from the influences of the neighbor.Every experience we undergo whether its education , marriage we just need a shift from subconsciousness to consciousness.A slight opening of eyes and awareness towards every moment we live here on earth.And this is what differentiates us from animals and plants.

We say , we are what we are (I am what I am) but rarely we realize this is also picked from somewhere .We are not what we are , we are only what the next one is
I think awareness of this "flaw in our life" will be enough for us to be unsatisfied and seek for the bigger truth and then at least we will be able to take few decision completely independent from the data stored in our mind because data in mind was on Wikipedia , Google and books yesterday. And still if you say you are what your books teach you than you have been just got unlucky because you studied xyz book first or you were born in abc country  which shaped your course of life and thoughts.And it can change in the next moment when you read a new book .

To start with lets start with the grass. Lets become aware of grass atleast.