On this earth whatever is done is done by consciousness. Unconsciously something is done, something else gets done. Consciousness is the centrality of life and being. Without this fundamental centrality, the earth would disintegrate. Man is also roped in the thread of consciousness. The embodiment of man is rendezvous of consciousness and matter passed through various stages of life. Man is an eternal chain of sequences set in motion by consciousness. Fuelled by the zest of billions of years, man is the epitome of rising consciousness.
Consciousness is one same thread that immerses everything and everything immerses into it. Consciousness consumes everything to overwhelm everything and everybody. We are nothing but consciousness. But we are fast asleep as we are forgetful of our conscious being on which life orbits. Creativity is pure consciousness. Thus whatever happens on this earth is to be done consciously. That which is not done consciously has no real value. It is said that people initiate to do something and when it reaches the ground opposite gets done. If you are a good lawyer, you would live every bit of your client’s case. It is only then that you can construct your client’s case consciously. If you are reading a book, you won’t get a word of it if you are not consciously reading it. Giving 100% into any work becomes creativity, seers call it love. When you are fully conscious of what you do, creativity is birthed.
Once you have learned something like driving, a language or a skill, doing the same thing, again and again, breeds artificiality. People get bored by doing one work so they switch jobs, businesses, spouses, cars, and brands. Boredom and monotony is bred. Creativity is always new and doesn’t let monotony breed. Once you have learnt and mastered a skill, you are skilful. Skill kills consciousness. To be skilful always, you need to use the skill as if you are doing something new. People keep doing things all life unconsciously. Without being conscious they live in thinking. Thinking breeds when you are fully unconscious. So your mind takes over and becomes the driver. You are the driver but when your mind takes control it becomes the driver. You become a robot, your life becomes robotic. You keep thinking in terms of not having enough. Because the mind is the default mode of you. So it needs you. It can only think. Thinking is not being in the being. Thinking begins when you are absent. Being absent, man thinks that man lives. Man thinks that he is living life by waking up daily and going to work and sleeping in the night. And then he laments it a life full of monotony. It brings him back to the trap of artificiality of mind. In reality, the mind lives in thinking. The mind makes us live in thoughts. Our life becomes thoughts. We become thought of our mind. We become the thinker of our thought of life. That makes us not being in the life. We are the mere thinker of our thought of life.
When we are in life, we be in life. In being in life, we exist in life and life exists in us. When we consciously sit at the seat of our existence then we become who we are. When I am not, my embodiment, my language, and my mind disintegrate and disappear. That’s an open secret laid open on our tables. But the mind is a tool built to avoid reality—the truth.
When God immerses into you as consciousness. Existence dawns upon you when your being become wakeful of that existence and that which exists in you as you is the one. When this marriage happens existence immerses in you.
When we do something creative we create something new. That newness is consciousness. That newness is love. Poets write poetry. Skilful poets don’t fathom the depths of oceans but play with words. Those who do not know the skill of writing but move into the heart of existence fathom the depths of thousands of oceans—the depths of the truth.
Skill is monotony. Monotony happens in the mind. Logic brings monotony that is part of the time. Logic is a set-up of mind. It lives in time and does all that it could do in time. To define logic, we say it is the opposite of illogic or insane or irrational. Both logic and illogic are two degrees of the same thing. That which cannot be written by logic if that is said to have somehow articulated within boundaries of language to express that which cannot be expressed in words and logic, then, it inspires those who are on the journey towards that which cannot be expressed by words or logic. That which is beyond words, logic and time.
Consciousness is the key to awakening. You can step on the journey of language to attain what cannot be said in the end—to be one with existence. To reach from the side of time you need to have pure intelligence of Buddha. Awakening that happened to Buddha, the awakened one, happened by walking towards the unknown through logic, language and science.
When a child is born. He is born from the side of existence into this world. You saw small children playing with the ball. They throw far and far and play. For them, it is not the ball. The ball is the ball of whole existence in hands that they can throw far. Throwing is an expression of the unknown existence that exists in them. Existence teems in them. Existence exuberates in them.
It begins with a child living in the joy of his being, that is, like being in the joy of existence when he is one with the existence. In that joy of being one is nothing but simply existence. Things of the world do not matter to him. But society breeds a mind that belittles his being. Society tells him you are born to be something in society. He forgets himself. The host in him on which the society and senses inhabit fades away. A societal alternative ‘mind’ takes shape.
All this happens because we don’t believe our consciousness. We don’t believe us. We don’t believe what we are. Therefore our mind thinks of the future. What the future will be? What will happen and we make a provision that what will happen tomorrow if something wrong happens. That is our weakness that is our dilemma. We want to repeat history. Because there is security. We are running after security. Our mind is insecure. Remember, our consciousness is the supreme security and all else is insecure. But our mind keeps thinking in terms of security. And the mind cannot create security. Consciousness is the ultimate security of life. We are born with it. Thus always be wakeful of your consciousness or be conscious of your wakefulness.
The author is a spiritual teacher.