54. Imagination.

Imagination is the ‘thought form’ of knowing. The knowing takes a form of story telling, as if, all that is perceived has some logical meaning, as if to have a reality being shared by separate people.

It is done ‘as if in thoughts’, but, there could be dozens of flash knowings, spontaneously, giving all probable knowable logic that could be put forth to the five sense perceptions. For example, when you see from of the tree, there is a knowing it’s a tree. It doesn’t have to be thought sentence, coming up as ‘I see a tree or that is a tree’. Knowing is not sentence wise.  As you look around, there is knowing of roads, trees, cars etc. It comes in thousands and doesn’t give a chance to locate, how this knowing is coming about, in frames. Its like a movie scene. What we see is continuous, but what gets projected is in frames. Similarly, knowing frames appear in thousands, as if when one looks around, he seems to know everything. Let me assure you that all this is ‘bullshit’. But that is how life is.

Let get to the basics a bit. No matter how you analyse, it always boils down to objectification. This is the culprit or dance of wholeness.

Life is like music. What you hear is instrumental music, and what comes as an re-cognition or a feel, is as if, it is encoded as a meaningful ‘lyrics’ or with words or meanings. So for a sad music you cry, for a dance music we dance. We react to music, as if it could make us react. It has the power to express us, as if its own expression. It means, It means, It means, whatever it means.

We, when exposed to instrumental, would be like the Buddha mind, and when exposed to the lyrics would like others or the normal ‘person’. In a normal song, the lyrics, along with the ‘tune’ can make you cry or laugh. Like in a movie, they ‘talk’, but if the background ‘tunes’ or melody, is not designed to give ‘that emotional’ feeling that is expected of the narration, you would never feel emotional at all. Imagine narrating a conversation as a robot would speak it, then, meaning would be difficult, without a body language or expression. Even so, along with the words, when one talks, the expressions of the face, the ‘tune’ of the words, the background scenery, all add up, to give the effect that is sought.

All these side effects, other than the meaning of the words, if recited unemotionally, is 5 sense perception. The mind, being the eventual movie maker, completely manipulates the perception, to give the required ‘cause and effect’ behaviour or meaning, with all the emotional ‘masala’.

The theme of life is set in scheme called logic or ‘cause and effect’. Life itself has been honing its skills in developing science, in the area of cause and effect, to make the events more and more meaningful of whatever is perceived, even though in reality, ‘nothing is ever happening’.

Meaning maker, or emotional meaning maker, is an intelligent aspect of ‘mind’ ( mind, which is also an concept as if a cause and effect, is required here also, or else mind is non existent) that makes responses, as hundreds of knowing, to fit a perception,  to generate a ‘cause and effect’ meaning to that scene, based on the basis, to make the perceiving, look like a meaningful event. This cause and effect type meaning maker works in the waking state very well and is able to generate a complete ‘human race’ and an outer universe that are never there. Loll.

I was dreaming this morning of taking off using a stick. It had a knob kind of fitting. I knew, I was dreaming and wanted to remember as much as I could. And so it goes- I would kind of squeeze that knob and I would be in air and try to tell all that this was it. So simple, why are all not using this aspect of life!. Sounds atrocious to the way mind works in the waking state. But believe me, in that dream, it did make meaning as the dream proceeded, and I was quite well versed with flying around in a matter of may be 10 seconds. I wonder where I see the dream. But there is a knowing of having dreamt. Similarly, there is knowing of all meanings to what we see. God know how it happens.

But what is happening. There is some reality, as an illusion happening all around to no-one and there is knowing all that is happening, as if to someone.  In reality, we perceive only, the feedback, of five senses. It is actually one set of sensations, but ‘this’ mind, thinks that it knows them as ‘five’. These sensations are happening continuously as an experience and ‘may be real’. However, this reality is happening ‘now’ and is an illogical combination of a set of colours, shapes, hardness etc, coming as a flow of ‘now’. Its colourful but meaningless at its core. Now depending on ‘each of us’, meanings happen, in horribly quick succession to all these sensations.

Firstly, the whole scene of seeing, hearing etc, all ‘five; sensations are coming a one block and are split into ‘five’ different categories, even though there are none. Now each category sensation is further divided ‘finely’ and given individual borders and meaning. Like for example, a chair is put to that finite shape, a tree is put to this shape, a nandakumar to this one etc and millions and millions or names or meanings are springing out, to each ‘cut section’ form and the best possibility is made, so as to stick on, for  memory.

Like background music of the cinema, emotions, and feelings are set into the body, as if it is personal to ‘this’ body. Now objectification is said to be happening. In a split second, the looks of ‘now’ is disappearing to give birth to a new appearance and a ‘feeling’ of time is ‘arranged’ by mind, as if an event is happening. No matter what is seen, or not seen, a fullset of opposites provide the filling up material that is required to make the ‘hotchpotch’ perception to meaningful events.  

When we try to forcibly remember many items in a set, we can do it better but making a story, connecting all items. If the story is good one, you will not miss out, even one item. Similarly, this mind, makes the best story. Even you missed out 90%, of the perception, the mind has the power to make up a beautiful story, to include  missing 90% as a major part of the story, as if its opposite existed! What is not there can become a major part of the story, in order to make a good memorable story, as if the 90% not there, needs to be re-membered by making it seem to be there as its opposite. So it uses new meaning for the ‘not theres’ like space for absence of things, darkness for absence of light and so on. Judgemental meaning becomes the highlight of the theme of meaning making or an essence of story making.

Let me make it simpler. ( normally, trying to confuse the guy, and telling him that this is a simpler version – that’s the game of mind. Lol.)

Light, as we know it to be is the essence of ‘life’ or creation. This light is not the one, we imagine as bright or dim light. It is the essence of consciousness. This light, creates colours, shapes, hardness, movements etc and the perceivable world as a sort of ‘knowing’

The so perceived world, would be totally illogical, if it was not for the ‘mind’. Mind is also of the same essence, but has a new role. It must hypnotically insert a concept of  ‘space and time’ factor for a 3D effect of a 2D seeing and duration effect to a spontaneous disappearing scenery.

In the original seeing, there is only what is seen or perceived, now and here. But this is not a  interesting game. It has to spiced with space and time and meaning making, as if an event is happening with a cause and effect ‘theme’ or Karma theme. So it starts with a ‘me’ for that, which feels ‘nearest’ and ‘other’  to forms outside of the nearest. ‘Me’ is a concept and ‘other’ is a also a concept, like time and space. Now the story is still bad, because, the ‘other’ - is a just a single flow of colours. This is further divided into a 10000 objects and made meaning to. And so the game takes on. It takes a few years to learn the game and then it’s in place, like an avalanche. It picks up its own momentum. Its enjoyable, until it gets too big to handle. In the course of its movement, the ability of the mind fails and this avalanche explodes to be just nothing. Some times it can explode, for no reason, like internally splintered avalanche. Silence, stillness is then, what is left, as all there is.

So the essence, as the light of consciousness is the unknowable, as there is ‘no one’ to know. However, whatever appears, is taken through ‘mind’ giving it more concepts like time and space and logic, which are totally illogical by any sense and all this nonsense suddenly seems to the ‘only’ sensible world, as this world has no comparison to evaluate. The sense of pleasure and sorrow, completes the missing requirements.

So nothing to do. Just give up believing what you see as logical events, at least, when you don’t need to interfere purposefully and just be. But ‘who’ is there to do this?

The mind will make a new story to this new game, but not for long. This game is not one of its ‘favourite’. It gets fed up and lets you be as ‘light of consciousness’. That’s you, without interpretation or mind’s narration. Take it or leave it.