Crux of Life.

Repercussions of a Troubled Mind
Chapter 1
Crux of Life. Oct 5,2006
The crux of life is that, “Practice is the road that takes one to the destination of their life”.
Now, this is a well established truth, but one does wonder at times
that what then the does it mean by practice. What could be defined as
practice, what is the nature of practice?
Why, some of us in spite of giving their best efforts, and even after
claiming a large amount of practice do not succeed? Why do some of us
who work seamlessly to acquire that elusive art of perfection feel that
they haven’t reached their destination? Here what is called for is a
definition of success. How do you define success? How do we judge
whether an outcome of a particular action or deed was successful or
unsuccessful?
Really, many questions are bound to occur, as there might not seem to
be a definite and satisfactory answer. All of us are on a quest, on a
journey. The quest seems unending, the journey and its implications
seems unfathomable. Given the circumstances, there are bound to be
confusions, there are bound to be plateaus in a person’s life, when he
begins to question the very meaning and validity of the quest itself.
What is he to do then? As all the natural inclinations in a persons
mind push him towards giving up the quest. When all the logical
conclusions point towards only one outcome, Decadence!
Then what is one to do? When a person grows too weak to go on, when
after facing many long treacherous hours, exacting days and countless
arduous years, he grows a little tired of trying too hard and his will
begins to fail him, and every part of his body coaxes him to let it all
go, then what sort of a reward would motivate him to go farther, after
so many fruitless years of struggle and aborted zeal??
The questions never cease, as the purpose of the mind is to Question!!
T
he only thing that the mind does best is to question…..question if this
person is tricking us, question if this thing is right, question if it
hurts to be brandished…and so on.
But then the point of the matter or rather the crux of the matter is
who answers??!! Questions will persist and remain adamant and cause
suffering and agitation. Could then the solution be to simply quit
questioning, to may be train the mind in such a fashion that we control
its immediate and unreasonable impulse to question? Perhaps it may be.
Perhaps that is what the saints call “The Silence of the mind”. So
then, does not thinking provide the answer? I wouldn’t necessarily
agree. Then the whole meaning of the life would then be lost. What good
is a mind that does not think?? What purpose does it serve if it does
not think and analyze? How could we then synthesize new ideas? If the
brain quits thinking, then the entire idea of perfection seems
irrelevant, because after all it still is a thought, isn’t it??
Everything we believe, every dream we have, every bit of memory that we
have, every shard of knowledge that we have, isn’t it after all a
thought? Even the idea of obliterating the use of mind, is still an
idea, a thought is it not?
More questions……….Mind doesn’t give up easily, it will question even
the questions contesting its very existing and purpose!!!! Ironic is it
not, that the mind seems to defend itself using ways, that are supposed
to be the basis of all the allegations against it
“Question the question” then becomes the stratagem of the mind.
But if you come to think of it, isn’t it the mind itself that is
questioning the mind!!! Who is asking the questions to the mind? Who
are making these allegations against the mind?? Is it not the mind
itself?? More questions!!! There seems to be no way out of these
questions and their concomitant, confusion……..no way…….
The mind plays all the roles, it writes the story, it directs the
scene, it enjoys the scene, the mind edits it, and the mind itself
remains audience to the magnum opera it itself creates and applauds the
amazing intricacies and the depth of its script and marvels at its own
creativity…………….
So at the crux of it all is creativity???!!! Oh god no!!! no more
questions please. The text has transgressed entirely the intentions of
the topic.
Now it seems the crux of life is just CONFUSION and more
confusion!!!With nothing clear as usual, I would like to end this topic
concluding nothing but this, “Confusion prevails, when everything
fails!!! Or perhaps, when YOU fail at everything!!!”
The games mind play can sometimes be extremely cruel…..in the ways in
which they tend to usher ones obliviously slumbering souls to face the
reality of life………..
I don’t know what i just said…..but is sounds intellectual doesn’t
it??!!
Intellectual rubbish……..A long list of incoherent words, stringed
together by the faintest of meanings ever.
Prashaant.
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