Tuesday 19 May 2015

The Question of Taking Action or Not



Written by Mathew Naismith

Consciousness is very volatile and is susceptible to movement from other conscious sources, this is because all of what is, is actually consciousness or created from consciousness, this includes everything man has created himself. The universe I believe is a creation of consciousness, that is why the universe and everything within this universe reacts to each other. The more physical the consciousness is, the more volatile and susceptible it becomes from other sources of consciousness, this is due to all physical forms created from pure conscious being unenlightened from an enlightened state of consciousness. The more a consciousness is enlightened, the less volatile and susceptible it is and visa-versa to other sources of consciousness. 

It's virtually impossible for an unenlightened state to not move, in other swords take action, this is due to such unenlightened states being volatile and susceptible to other conscious sources. These other sources of consciousness can quite easily influence an unenlightened state so such an unenlightened state reacts which of course causes further reaction. You drop a pebble in the water and it causes movement in the form of ripples, now in another part of the water drop another pebble, the reaction is instantaneous,  ripples from the second pebble counteract the ripples from the first pebble. To stop such ripples effecting our own ripples, we keep reacting, in other words we keep dropping pebbles in the water to counteract ripples from other pebbles dropped in the water, we soon end up with a lot of chaotic disturbance on the surface of the water.

Now before we dropped these pebbles in the water, the surface of the water was still and tranquil, the water was still moving but under it's own force. An unenlightened source of consciousness unaware of such stillness, disrupts this flow by taking action causing an endless stream of reactions as in the pebbles. I see man as these pebbles, instead of gently placing the stones in the water, we basically plunge ourselves into the water time and time again in reaction, this of cause causes the water to become chaotic. To me this reality is very much like the water, it has become chaotic but if we stopped reacting and plunging ourselves into this water, the water would eventually become still again.

It's very hard for an unenlightened consciousness to stop reacting, this is mainly caused by a controlling ego instead of a non-controlling ego. A controlling ego needs to take action but a consciousness that's not controlled by the ego, doesn't see a reason to change the stillness of the water for any purpose for what better purpose is there than to exist in tranquillity!!

By placing the pebbles in the water instead of dropping them, is this not an action or a reaction still?

When you are causing no or little disturbance to the water, can you still call this an action or reaction, what action is there in this?

An action is defined by a reaction, if there is no reaction, no actual action took place even when we have movement, this is because it's a very passive movement. This is saying that not  all movement is in relation to an action or reaction until it causes a reaction. If I was to react to the water, I would drop the pebble in the water, if I didn't want a reaction I would gently place the stone in the water causing no reaction at all. All consciousness works  the same, if we want a reaction, we drop or throw the stone in the water, if not, we place it in the water. Consciousness reacts very much like the water, it too is volatile and susceptible to active movement, this is because water is also consciousness.

A lot of spiritual practices teach us to quieten the mind, is this an action and/or a reaction?

It's a reaction if we are reacting for a purpose or an intention, an intention to quieten the mind to rid ourselves of undesirability's of some kind, this is likened to dropping the pebble in the water. It's not an action or a reaction if we are just quietening the mind for no purpose or intention, this is likened to placing the pebble in the water.

So many Western spiritual practice these days are about taking firm action to rid ourselves of some kind of undesirability, this is wholly counteractive to quietening the mind. Quietening the mind means taking no actions.

When we quieten the mind, doesn't this cause a reaction, don't we become more passive and understanding, is this not a reaction?

What happens to the water when we no longer drop the pebbles in the water but place them in the water? The water becomes quietened through placing the pebbles in the water, instead of dropping them, which causes no or little reaction, the flow of the water becomes quietened again. Quietening the mind is very much like this. I should point out here, the pebble belongs in the water as we belong in realities like this one. We are consciousness existing in consciousness, we don't belong anywhere else just like the pebbles in the water.

There is no action or reaction taking place when you are aware of where you are supposed to be, a quiet mind is where we are supposed to be as opposed to a noisy mind. An enlightened mind is not noisy, actually it's quite tranquil and still where's an unenlightened mind is noisy and chaotic. We are not meant to drop the pebble in the water but place the pebble in the water causing very little reaction in the process.


By taking firm action, we are not going with the natural flow of the water, the natural process of the subtle movement by consciousness in it's natural form, every action and reaction changes this natural movement of consciousness and turns it into something chaotic.

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