Showing posts with label ignorance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ignorance. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Forming 2

A world described as made up by interrelated forms and fields is different from the normal idea of the world as a material earth where people and material objects are governed by power structures.
One advantage of the form-field model is that all of us inhabitants in the world can express ourselves freely. In a power-based structure maybe only one person per nation (like Stalin or Mao) has full freedom. In a materially based society it is very heavy to express oneself - a big house, a big car and millions of objects are necessary. The earth is too small for all of us to have all this.
In a form-field world we can use anything as a form. It can be material objects, but also actions, words and even thoughts.
As human beings, our great quality is our ignorance. It is our potential for learning. If we seek truth by practical experiments, we are likely to hurt ourselves and others.
If we instead use words and thoughts, we can try out more ideas for less damage. And eventually we can find our ideals, and thus create the best combination of form and field.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Nature of mind

All suffering is caused by ignorance, it is claimed in Buddhist philosophy.
It is three-fold ignorance. Ignorance about the environment, ignorance about me and ignorance in the mechanism of understanding reality.
In order to see reality as it is we need to see more than we usually do. But if we just expand our ability to see, we get overwhelmed by the number of observations.
As our normal observations are faulty, we use thumb rules for interpretation. These rules are often faulty.
The universe in which we live is complex and fast changing. We can not follow this with our awareness in real time. We can not follow even the processes in our own body. We leave the cells to decide about their doings.
Is this ignorance for ever?
Well, there is one escape. It is nature of mind.
Nature of mind is the ability of mind to read and follow the highest frequencies.
We can train ourselves and thus approach higher and higher frequencies.