Senselessness & Enlightenment | Wajid Nabi
The task of making order victorious over chaos or randomness and if you will look upon it you will look upon warfare. Alan Watts was a 20th century British American philosopher he use eastern philosophy in western world and inspire 2 major movement beat and hippies in United States. Watts unique ability to translate complex philosophy made him more popular. Watts was born in London. During his life he realised that Christianity methods of understanding and dealing with life left him unappeased and unfulfilled and often with more problems than solutions in Watt’s mind Christianity failed to answers the questions like what the reality of universe? What is life and what is self. He embarked on his journey of Buddhism. He found that he gained enlightenment and peace and it was what Watt’s need to share with the eastern world. He saw the from the cultural stand point the west is constantly alienated and conflicted often obsessed with status and consumption and dominance they appeared to remain lost and distant them from fellow humans and nature itself the idea that the successful business a new item being sold in the market and higher social status a social power and anything that like could resolve the human experience of isolation anxiety and vulnerability was exceptionally foolish in Watt’s mind’s. The western religious idea of absolute morality did assist the westerners and his or her ability to resolve this behaviour or further detach themselves from everything but making them subject of everything instead of making the part of everything. There is I must be observing and I must not be what I’m observing then there must a separate dimension of ego and a bag of skin. This teaching is not only incorrect but it is the source of our alienation, anxiety , suffering and subsequent animosity with the knowledge that we will die the things will change that stuff will be dissolved. How can we drive an meaning and connection to life by changing the sense of self to these things to our body to our personal identity to our stuff to our status. One of if not the most fundamental principles in Watt’s teachings the idea that attempting to resolve the problem the idea that we are none of these things that we tend to identify with but instead we are everything and everything is us human and nature go together as one linked inexorably in infinitely just as noise can’t exist without silence just as light can’t exist without darkness our internal cannot exist without our internal. Our experience cannot exist without our non experience or death everything needs everything else in order to be anything else at all. We are organism in the environment we are but a feature of the whole thus we are the whole the illusion that the western world has and continues to live in is that our thoughts are ex with the laws of universe that we have a separate relation detached with nature however and our thoughts and actions occur voluntarily and can impose themselves on nature the truth is the bran and our consciousness are not separate not from the cause and effect process of universe not from the laws everything operates on.
“Success in life is not to change the world or to change the certain amount of wealth and to surpass someone in sense of power or anything of that sort but the ultimate goal is to synchronise with the nature itself to realise the your behaviour is one with the behaviour of rest of the world a person in fact is a nature itself and so person cannot choose to influence on nature”
what appears to be a human effect on nature is only the nature effect on nature like the nature playing the game of nature like a river flowing without choosing to we humans we move and act without choosing to technology is always been without choosing and to accept this and overcome one ego is not a small feat it is to destroy one sense of self importance which is of course very important to the thing believe and wants so very badly to be important but the irony is perhaps what we think we want is not the thing we really want perhaps thinking that we are more or less important than anything or anyone is not that helpful for the experience of life perhaps alternatively realising one’s unimportance as the potential to actually open up the door to a whole new realm of meaningfulness and enjoyableness like an artist in a state of flow without forcing nature. We synchronise with it and perform Life with fluidity and ease of course eastern philosophy is not without criticism that communicates and derived many of ideas from it is reasonable to find some of Watt’s teaching and translations to be either confusing and fuzzy for ease up against the very difficult opponent be it the very thing we’ve ben conditioned and wired to identify life with even for Watt’s himself it is easy to say that the ideas he shared were not easy and did not resolve all the challenges of being human for him according to those who knew him he was not without struggles in his conflict or vice perhaps his take on life is accurate and yet doubtful perhaps that’s not the point at this of our evolution we can only really speculate what the true nature of everything is there is no answer at the back of the book that we can peek at when things gets confusing however we can peek at the book which has been founded true and absolute with the physical evidence of its writing like a Quran. Efforts aren’t useless in speculating and understanding our spiritual essence is without value. What the idea can do for us? For many Watt’s ia of experiencing life and in a positive way that Christianity and other western ideology are failed to provide and have overlooked. There is the part of world that suffering continuously but watts said life is not the competition rather it is how we experience our spiritual existence in a more meaningful positive way . Watts said that we are not separate from nature, we are part of it. We don’t need to take things quite seriously where are an ordinary person sees a battle the extraordinary person sees a corporation the dance is nothing but to mystify and entertain which is to say everything and everyone is all working together at once to mystify and entertain to express the single thing that is universal consciousness which is life and here we are in the stance with ability to form reason trying to make sense of this apparently senseless dance of life and in attempts we become confuse and seek better meaning better justification and one of the religious book Quran gives the better justification of one’s life and it’s meaning we struggle to accept what it is and overpowered by our ego and hatred for the particular thing cause we are continuously filled by senselessness. The senselessness but leads to wonder and wonder leads to mystification and mystification leads to truth and truth leads to God.
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