Tuesday, June 30, 2009

What a wonderful world - Update

Was discussing on instant messenger about a previous post of mine, with the same title, with a friend. Felt that some snippets of the conversation are worthy enough to be posted here!

I had said, 'Why whine? Why cry? What a wonderful world!'
The reason why I said this and why I liked this so much is (from the chat, mildly edited for the sake of coherence)
We are totally identified with our mind and so we constantly worry about our happiness / sadness, which are nothing but arbitrary neural states in the mind. We worry about them as we are identified with them. So we resist what is. What is, is this wonderful world. When we start to disidentify with the mind, we learn to accept the What is. Only then, we will see the wonderful world and stop whining and crying.
Of course all this commentary is not needed if we can enjoy the wonderful world and this song instead of whining and crying. In some circumstances, all the words of masters like Osho and JK stand so ridiculously useless in front of the ability of such a song in raising consciousness. This happened to me yesterday when I was introduced to this song (again, from the chat, edited for the sake of coherence)
I was reading about zen, enlightenment, Osho etc yesterday around midnight and I was in quite an awful mood. I was machine like clicking through for about an hour. In addition, I had some porn videos open that I was sampling now and then. My mechanical link clicking led me to the zen story of10 bulls. This video was embedded in that page but it took some time to load. I did not notice it then. As I was half way through the story, suddenly this song started playing and in a second I woke up from that machine like state. There was a sudden shift in consciousness. I was suddenly extraordinarily awake. I thought what bullshit - porn videos and stupid JK/Osho words. I closed all windows and listened to this at least 5-6 times. What the words of Osho and JK could not do then, this song did it so easily!

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