Written by Mathew Naismith
My lovely wife came across the following
rhyme after hearing me speak of how wisdom is no longer apparent within our
daily existence. My wife only observed the wisdom of the rhyme, not what the
rhyme was actually portraying, that men do not hear or listen enough. The
wisdom being that we can speak too much and not hear enough of what we are
speaking about, this was basically what the discussion with my wife was about.
My darling wife did not observe the actual meaning of the rhyme but the wisdom
of the rhyme. There was no depiction of a negative or positive, black or white,
within her observation of the rhyme. This kind of observation is very rare it
seems, observing the wisdom in things before anything else.
"There was an owl who lived in an oak tree. The
more he heard, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Oh, if
men were like that wise bird."
The following was in response to the
question of making allowances for people who are unable to comprehend anything
beyond their own conditioning. The conditioning here is pertaining to
expressing extremes as opposed to expressing balance.
In
the west in particular it would seem, we are conditioned from birth to exist in
separation with our environment, is this a relative excuse to ignore what our
natural surroundings can teach us about balance?
When
you also consider a lack of being conditioned to wisdom, I think this is a
relative excuse to ignore what our environment can teach us.
However,
I think many of us are at the stage where we are deliberately ignoring what our
environment can teach us. Of course when we gain wisdom, we see it quite
differently as you seem to have done. Wisdom is an important relative towards
observing the balance in our environment.
We
seem to have gotten to the point of deliberately ignoring instead of just being
unaware, probably because of the lack of wisdom.
I
think any consciousness existing void of wisdom is going to be imbalanced
therefore extreme and destructive by nature. There is nothing wrong with
existing like this, however, if we are serious in changing our ways, we need to
be aware and more conditioned to wisdom than separation it would seem, this
clearly isn't occurring.
The
reason I say this isn't occurring, is we are obviously still fixated to
extremes. Any expressions of extremes
indicate that the said consciousness is any thing but conditioned to wisdom.
All extremes to me indicate separation to excess; it is obvious this kind of
existence/consciousness is void of wisdom thus unable to observe balance within
the environment.
Basically,
we no longer have the tools to observe and learn balance from our environment
any more. We instead replaced wisdom with separation through excess expressions
of extremes.
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The following is another response I gave in
relation to comprehending anything not of our own mind set, especially words of
wisdom. Wisdom is certainly being replaced with extreme reactions and
counteractions these days.
The
means of learning from wisdom is still there, it's just we seem to have gotten
to a point where we no longer able to comprehend wisdom as this, particularly
in the west.
We might
become aware of this kind of wisdom, but we don't truly comprehend its meaning,
we have lost this ability through our fixations to extremes it would seem.
Spirituality
is being used and abused once again as a feel good practice; it was never
intended for this. Spirituality to me is about connections beyond human
conscious understanding, feeling good comes at best to this, actually, feeling
good is apart of the natural process of becoming connected. We have indeed
abused this once again for self-gratification.
Wisdom
is the ability to observe without bias, at no time is this kind of observation
a state of excessive thinking and analysing; it's a pure state of observation.
As an example, there are no true black and white's, negative and positives;
there is only observation of motion void of analytical analysis. There are no
true wrong and rights, only expressions of motions.
As
spirituality is suppose to be about connections, it's also supposed to be about
wisdom, this again is no longer the case it would seem. Extreme expressions and
self-gratifications have nothing to do with a true sense of spirituality and
wisdom to me. It's sad to see spirituality being once again abused in this
fashion.
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I also wrote the following in response that
all validation is of external sources. Also, the mind is a doorway to other
worlds, realms and realities; we often comprehend that the mind is just of a
physical spectrum.
Indeed, to know you are abundance takes
a balanced mind to realise this in the first place. A mind focused on extremes
will never realise this abundance, only the abundance found externally which is
often transitory. All extreme expressions are external.
The mind to me is a doorway to external
and internal worlds/realms. We often make the mistake and think that the mind
is of external worlds only, of the physical worlds.
Having balanced views assists us to use
the mind as a doorway to our inner world, a world we have often forgotten
about.
External validation isn't quite correct
because it's the mind that needs validation, and it's but a doorway to all
worlds. If this doorway is not balanced within itself, the worlds we experience
through these doorways will be the same.
How many people look upon the mind as
being a doorway, a gate to other worlds and dimensions? It's obviously
important we have a balanced perceptions/mind.
The mind is a stargate, this is obvious
for the mind still exists after so-called death. The mind indeed transcends
realities, if the mind is imbalanced, so is the realities experienced, even
after death.
We look upon the mind as an external
entity that needs external validation, big mistake in my mind. My mind receives
more validation from internal sources than external sources these days, only
because my mind is open and aware to all I am, not just to all I desire to be
of!!
How
many people truly comprehend that the mind is but a doorway to other worlds,
realities and realms? We have been conditioned to think the mind is only a
physical entity and anything of the mind is of the ego mind. Everyone's mind is
indeed a stargate, a gate/doorway to limitless infinite conscious
occurrences.
Yes,
most of what I write about is incomprehensible to a lot of people; this has
been stated to me a number of times. As the ego mind often does, anything
incomprehensible, especially when it questions our own perceptions, is often
refuted and denounced. If I did this myself, I would be aware of very little
these days.
We
desire to be free from our environment around us, but we are at the same time
unwilling to let go of extreme expressions that negate wisdom. Only in and
through wisdom will we truly be free, the problem being, one has to be wise to
some extent in the first place to start being truly free of our own extreme
expressions.
Can
a consciousness become that extreme within there expressions, that the said
consciousness will be unable to free itself from these limiting extreme
expressions? I have observed that many of us have reached this stage, in the
process, denounce any wisdom in the contrary to their own extreme expressions.
Collectively, we are in a mess, a mess we have created ourselves, however,
there is an answer to this, but we must be willing to free ourselves from our
extreme expressions.
