April 2, 2011
Names and Forms 0
The human mind has a peculiar habit to name everything into individuals and fragments of existence and than create relations between them. One could say that the mind is narrative; it likes to create stories, worlds of imagination. You often see children do that. For instance naming every fish in the tank, giving them a personality and relations with other fishes including a life story with a past and a future. This is perfectly fine and we all do it, even enjoy it, nothing like a good story … but is it really true in an existential sense? The universe did perfectly fine for 5 billion years before the human mind started this game of naming separate individuals and objects into existence. Actually there is no world and no time either in the sense we usually mean, that to is a product of naming things into the illusion of separate existence and relation. What is left if we stop this game of naming and relating is what the Hindus calls “Leela”, the dance of life. We are taught and usually looks upon nature as the survival of the fittest, a fight between individuals to survive, but once again, is this really true or is it the interpretation of the mind? Naming individuals into existence where there actually are no separations. How would life look like from the perspective of life as a whole? How would it be to live without the illusion of an individual centre?
