'Try
to think differently' .... people try to tell us often...
Starting
with that, the latest catch word is now to destroy that 'box' itself!
(being so tired of 'out of box thinking!!!)...
The
worst part is, when people persuade us to close the eyes
(meditation), so as to be able to 'see' better!
When
I thought that I am slowly trying to improve upon myself with a few
intense spiritual practices, I got a jolt to see that movie where a
kid is able to easily read the exact alphabets to form a clue, a
word, from a whole lot of scattered, jam-packed randomly strewn, mind
boggling alphabet chart! (the disability of that child to converse
cohesively with people around seems to be a 'blessing-in-disguise' or
something of that sort!)...
This
problem of perspective started quite early in my life... when as a
kid, I happened to notice my eldest maternal uncle often used to say,
"I see...." !! The problem was, when he used to utter this,
I found his eyes closed! Going over to a secluded corner of the
house, (or a bathroom or toilet even, ) I too tried it out then....
nothing happened... even normal vision was impaired! My age then did
not give me the licence to ask them to 'explain-themselves'... others
around never disputed it.... so I concluded for the time being that
this kind of seeing-with-eyes-closed might happen only after
'adulthood'! And the irony is that, now I find that kids observe
things 'as they are'... quite better than most of us adults! Quite a
long journey, it was to find the distinction (experientially),
between that perspective and perception... and again, the
spiritually-oriented-meaning of perception.... and how the
perspective 'dictates' the perception itself!
(For
entertainment purpose, we have that end-of-the-movie scene in the
Hindi movie 'Aa Gale Lag Ja' where the fiancee doctor slaps a kid
with walking disability... The heroine gets angry with the doctor,
where as the hero rolls down tears of gratitude for that very 'slap'!
... I suppose the two words, 'nazar', and 'nazaria' are
interdependent to decide how we perceive!)
..
And,
if you promise not to tell 'others', I have a 'private' problem
too... some people, when they look at us, we don't know whether they
are really looking at us... it is so embarrassing to even ask them!
It might hurt them, inspite of our best intentions! For instance, I
had a class-mate who stayed so throughout my school days (neither of
us failed, to part that 'class-mate' status!)... just because we were
very close friends, I could summon courage to ask him 'hey, whom are
you looking at?' and in the same kid-age-innocence (that we shared so
beautifully), he would say 'you... why?'.. now I know, how to find
out whom he is looking at! I never had to repeat the question to that
friend.... Recently, another class mate told me that this guy is a
leading and most-sought-after anesthetic in that metro-city! 'Great
!' I said, 'and his patients very lucky!' ... 'why?'... he asked....
'you remember... ' I replied, 'how he used to confuse us.., and
confusion is the last thing a patient would like to have on his/her
mind before slipping into that oblivion where perception and
perspective ... both get dissolved, evaporated... at least for a
while, and so also the problems attached to it!"
The
above narrative is a copy paste of my comment at this blog:
By
now a few are used to reading what I write, and they have their own
reasons to enjoy it! That is what prompted me to re-paste the
comments into a blog... I had looked at what we see, and then what
we make out of it!
Another
comment:
“Solution
is easily achieved from understanding,
but understanding is
not easily achieved”
counter
comment:
Great!
Typically,
a 'solution' becomes a problem!... yet another problem
Observation
by yet another person, about 'yet another problem:
This
is the way of all the greatest intellectuals i pity them
they
write everything analyze all in utmost most width, ignoring only the
depth, so end up in producing books thicker, problems remain giving
birth to new problem
they never bother on solution, but
bother more for popularity, name awards recognitions all only for
having described the problem in verbose beautiful
My
reply to this wonderful observation :
Our
actions are no different... Instead of dissolving our residues, we
make it 'wide' (no depth, ignoring depth), effectively multiplying
the need for fresh and more number of actions!
...
There was
that cartoon .... famous one... that boy called 'Henry' bald
headed...
He saw a banana peel lying on the road.... 'Something
must be done about it... someone may fall!'
He got hold of a few
discarded pieces of wood from wooden crates, built a fence around
that banana peel, even wrote a small 'legend' to appropriately warn
the passers by, stood a little away, had a look, and chuckled with
satisfaction of having done the best thing!
..
The theme
of the cartoon happened to stay with me! It was on the last page,
inside cover of some 'Phantom' comic that I used to read, when I was
a kid!
psn(5th
August, 2012)
