Division
Why do we divide things? Is it necessary to understand a point of view only after breaking it into pieces? Does it provide a solution by dividing the matter into poles? Only if the matter is not mathematical, why is it necessary to bring division into the matter? Why can’t we understand or see the thing as a whole?
Does seeing a matter as a whole make it easier to adapt or harder to understand? When I see a matter in a division, does the real essence remain untouched, or does it get fractured into more pieces?
I have a problem. Problem of identifying myself with a matter. When I am identifying myself with the matter, I am complicating the real essence of the ideology with my illusion or imaginary self, and the results turn out to be the permutation and combination of the real matter and my illusions. In this process, the real essence of the matter gets distracted. How?
It gets distracted by my ‘beliefs’, my ‘values’, my ‘upbringings’, and my social reforms.
My prejudices keep me confined within the boundaries created by my conditioning.
I want to stop this in myself. But how?
How can I stop this identification of my illusions with the real essence of the matter? The real essence of any matter gets disrupted whenever anything unrealistic convictions related to ‘Me’ get involved. I am calling my convictions unrealistic because those can never be permanent; each seconds human body is changing, the outer world is changing; that’s why it is said ‘Change is the Only Constant’. The central teaching of Upanishad, which is also called Vedanta, explained by Adi Shankaracharya that “Whatever changes is not my true Self; the unchanging witness is who I truly am.” Early Buddhist Philosopher Nagarjuna also talked about “Shunyata” which means “Emptiness”.
When everything is changing? Especially the values I hold and identify myself with- are those even reality? Or am I fooling myself with those?
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So, how about I see the matter in an objective way, not in a subjective way (without involving my convictions)?
Is it possible?
But isn’t this the way a scientist does it? Isn’t this the way a scientist sees a matter without involving himself/herself with the matter? But is there a process?
I have questioned myself. I have researched. Till now, the answer is NO. There is no step-by-step mechanical process to stop the identification with the matter.
Then what is it?
How to not identify myself with the matter?
Well, humorously, the answer is within me. I am floating in division. In my mind, I divide myself from the matter, thinking the matter is not my problem. Then, when I involve myself again, it causes discomfort by creating unrealistic scenarios in my mind.
By questioning the very core of “ME,” I think I can stop this process.
Whatever ideology I hold close to my existence or identify myself with has to be questioned ‘CONTINUOUSLY’, with great patience.
Thoughts divide me from the matter. They create a division between me and the matter by making me feel that the matter is separate from me. This division gives rise to conflict, fear, attachment, and imagined scenarios.
So, to sum it up, Thought creates the division between the observer and the observed.
