Gross Existence V Conscious Existence

When we look around, how many people spend their time entertaining themselves or in a vacant state, and how many are just consciously aware? We distract our attention because we feel uncomfortable just being, as we are unfamiliar with silent awareness. Educated to better ourselves, we become especially clever, thus suffocating in arrogance and competitiveness.

Building super-smart contraptions makes things seem better, but then these have to be superseded because of the revolving door syndrome, which is the tendency for things to get better for a while, before dissatisfaction sets in, and so more treatment is needed. Religions have that effect!:-)

This works on a small scale, as we constantly update our digital gadgets, and also on the level of a society: rather than thinking for ourselves, we are led by revolutions, going round in circles. The agricultural revolution became the industrial revolution, and turned into the technological revolution, leading us on to the consciousness revolution of micro-chipped brains – and a micro-chipped attitude.

Revolution: a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes or operation; the overthrow or superseding of ideas.

Claustrophobia of a confined mind creates emotional conflicts of confusion. We see, but we don’t see, as our perception is skewed with a bias towards one particular group or subject, and so we adhere or revert to trivial memories, details, pieces of information of little importance or value.

Between our gross activities is a moment of consciousness – of just being aware, when we come to our senses – but we ignore this because it’s probably boring and we look for something more interesting to engage us. And so we fill our entire life with mundane acceptance that this is all there is …

‘Spiritual’ practice is catching those moments of ‘boredom’, of ‘not knowing’, and that is exactly the moment of pure consciousness we aren’t supposed to notice, because then we are free to think for ourselves.

Actually, the battle of good and evil has always been about consciousness – either free or embalmed, preserved in a seemingly unaltered state. 🙂