Outside of Illusions
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8 years ago in #philosophy by clayboyn (70)
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Reading through this I somehow think of the Allegory of the Cave by Plato
LOL, I totally get it. How do you describe being in a state of constant observation in words? I guess this is the closest I am currently able to come up with to doing that.
I've always seen this third-dimensional reality as a 'doing' dimension. A place where we act and interact.
It's an interesting notion to just observe and not do any action. Very Zen Buddhist.
I think that the main problem most people face and are victims and perpetrators of are 'reactions'. Literally an ongoing ripple of reactions bouncing off of other reactions that has been cascading from generation to generation since the dawn of self-conscious thought.
What was the first action and who did it?
What and who had the first reaction?
So what if we existed in a state of observation without judgment (adding personal emotional biases) and action, but not reaction.
Is it possible to observe, take action, but never to react within this interactive dimnesion?
Blissful blessings and smilesin joyNKI suppose that's the goal. Observation and detachment doesn't feel the same as disassociation to me. The ability to act is always present and never really an issue, but it does seem that reactions strike me as one of the biggest problems for most people. I think it requires us to not take things personally as sometimes just realize that we have the ability to stop these ripples when they land on us. If we don't want to perpetuate something we disagree with, let it die when it hits us and potentially send back a different kind of action.
The state of you observing yourself observing others... something I've definitely experienced, but its an ability (or a condition) that comes and goes... Being mindful is like realizing that you're in a movie theater rather than being engulfed in a movie... and so you absorb the movie and the space in which it is projected... But its interesting to discuss these things in the virtual world... because we are all somewhat here, and at the same time we're not... We're reading each other's thoughts written with black on white, but interpreting them through our own filters, adding meaning, adding complexity, decipher the person behind the words...
Good read Clay! <3
The nature of the beast. :)