The universe, the earth, nature all have been running in accordance with a code, a type of movement towards advancement. Nature has been constantly progressing, giving birth to the new every moment and the old is dying into every moment. From rocks to life, nature is constantly involved as if conscious of being unconscious in an uninterrupted creativity of creation. It seems nature’s endeavour is to produce an improved-version of nature every moment.
Every human is a colony of 90 trillion cells and every moment new cells are born and old ones are dying. Cells carry imprinted codes on them to behave in the pattern engraved on them and to keep procreating new cells in abundance to help nature do what it is preordained to do—the journey of life in nature from unconsciousness to the consciousness to the super consciousness. Nature is dominantly pushing all of us from darkness to light from unconsciousness to the consciousness; this is the inevitable goal of nature.
Man is endowed with an immense gift of consciousness that can flower from the seed of consciousness. Man is endowed with intelligence that is endowed with comprehension that man can attain to pure consciousness. No animal has been endowed with such wakeful intelligence by nature to attain to flowering. Humans have been endowed with enormous possibilities. Let’s enquire what has happened to humans? In thousands of years of existence, only a few have been able to attain Buddhahood. One wonders why few individuals attain Buddhahood when the possibility is available to all.
However, a man lives in intellect, totally unmindful of the seed of flowering. He keeps on thinking and becomes a thinking animal. By use of intellect, the mind keeps on constantly chattering all the time. In thoughts, a false centre gets created—a centre that is the consequence of society. A centre that man is born to a particular religion, family, has a name given by parents, gained knowledge and ideas to make him distinguished. In fact without the backbone of conscious-intelligence, the false centre cannot exist because to be a false centre actual centre is needed. After all, only in default of the actual centre, the false centre can operate.
Therefore, the false centre in man wants to become something else. He thinks that he is not. Thought makes him become something other than that he is not. Thought makes him think that what he has is not enough and he is born to do something. Thought is, in fact, psychological time that goes on uninterruptedly in mind. When one achieves physical needs, thought moves to psychological needs. Then it moves to religious needs, followed by esoteric needs, to finally the needs that one does not need. Thought makes man yearn to be distinct in everything he does. Ideologies, disciplines, traditions and rituals are permanent carriers of thought like thought of being religious creates rituals. Thought makes one un-become what one is. In thoughts you become what you are not. Thought has an immense ability to divide itself into thousands of fragments; that is why our mind is so fragmentary and we keep on thinking about one thought to the other without being conscious about them.
The false centre of the brain keeps on running and thought keeps circling around the false centre to create a periphery. The false centre that you are not is the centre you call ego. Therefore, the whole misery and dilemma. Thought wants to be something resulting in misery, despair and sorrow because thoughts cannot be. Earning money, building a big palace, fleet of luxury cars, prestige, power all are thoughts that do not make man something that he wants to be.
In fact, man is in the consciousness of being. But in thoughts consciousness is fragmented. The power of being conscious is in being conscious in pure and absolute consciousness and being wakeful without wasting energy on thoughts. Thought, language and mind drop when you are in the being and what remains is a vast space beyond the boundaries created by the false centre. You think like a well because your thoughts present you to a limited sky. When you drop your thought the whole cosmos the whole space is yours, the whole emptiness of space in which you are and what that you are is all yours. That is the time when your attention becomes together and becomes the choice-less choice.
For a thought to be the opposite is needed because thought comprehends that you are not. For a thought to be an opposite understanding is needed. Light has to give meaning to a thought of darkness; its opposite is needed to explain what is light. Thought creates the opposite to explain a thing. On this principle of opposite the architecture of thought is built in the absence of being. Man lives in thoughts for decades and dies. But there is a way to drop the thought. In being we drop the thought. In being we know who I am. In thoughts we live a life for decades but never come across the real question: Who am I? Death makes us realise that we lived a dream of life but not life.
This whole earth is in the being. Consciousness is totally in the being. Consciousness is the most valuable endowment to the earth. The consciousness has dawned on you is the great creation of that which is which you are making it un-being when lost in thoughts. Consciousness is the most creative flowering on earth and you may rejoice in its fragrance.
Everything on earth is living in the being. Look at a tree, a flower, or an animal—all are being in whatever is endowed to them. You are endowed with wakeful intelligence—pure wakefulness. Understand the blessings. You have been endowed the gift of consciousness in your being that you can flower and blossom to become an awakened one, the Buddha. But you are engaging in unnecessary activities.
In fact, you are actual, and thought is theoretic; thought uses the actual that is you to be a thinker. If you want to reclaim your life, what you have never lost, the actual being in you, then you begin living in the being. And just be.
The author is a spiritual coach and an independent advisor on policy, governance and leadership. He can be reached at arunavlokitta@gmail.com.