What a caption!
Fault, error, mistake....
interchangeable words with very subtle difference, and seldom taken
notice of! That is exactly the fault, error or mistake, when we
'fail' to(adequately) appreciate the language !
I was reminded of an acquaintance of
mine, who was usually extra-cautious about the other person
'likely-to-miss' the emphasis.. and so, he used to say, 'Faulty
error' and 'erroneous mistake' and things like that when he liked to
soften the impact of some failure on his part! I used to repay him
with 'extraneous error', just to let him know that not everybody is
error-ridden enough, all the time, to miss the strategic advantage
that he tried to gain using linguistic gimmicks!
From spiritual point of view, error(and
its variables) begins and ends, perhaps with just the perception!
Once the perception affords us (the being within), that clarity about
such errors (and its cousins), then the choice rests with us, within
us.... to do what is needed! The 'abrupt' and striking contrasts
that we find in those Zen stories are ample evidences of the attempt
to draw the attention of that less-alert-mind, towards such erroneous
perceptions of abstract concepts, perpetuated over lifetimes,
lifespans,.... whatever...! (And let me give something to
un-nerve ourselves, those few of us who might be tempted to look at
this proposition as some kind of 'fertile-imagination' of an idle
mind.... “The traditional time-tested and well established
practices of match-making mandates that horoscopes of a bride and
groom have those 'fault-levels' matched appropriately to ensure a
'smooth-quarrel' to last a life time.... the technical names might
be, 'paapa-saamya' or 'dosha-saamya'... “ the ancients called dosha
or paapa to mean as 'faults', since they were too keen to maintain
the awareness that wrong-identification with this gross body is the
main fault!)
(Now, is it going to be too much, if
we try to see, if our sight is a bit erroneous, when we are trying to
pick faults with traditions that have stood the test of time, just
because these healthy traditional prescriptions got encased into an
erroneous name .... say for example, our own dear Hinduism? ...
This is going to be a stupendous task... the vision-correction to
6-by-6 levels, from where ever we are right now!... The word
'correction' is itself not going to find some appeal, for some time!
Because the 'correct' levels are not within our perception at all, in
the first place, to afford us some kind of comparable
parameters!!!... And those that are 'marketed' by gimmicks-men, are
huge blocks themselves, to be avoided, not reached!!! These
gimmicks-men are holding the fort of spiritual business, and the
walls of their fort being our own fault-ridden, erroneous mistakes of
remaining stuck to our own ideas about those abstract concepts!)
Do we need any further proof that this
stuff might have come out of a 'double fault' failure in my erroneous
mind which tried to mis-take the people around?
Erroneously yours,
psn(8th March, 2013)
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