Middle Ground Humanity

 

Written by Mathew Naismith

Seen as I am conditioned to a foreground reality or environment, as in a western civilisation, I can speak from actual foreground humanity experiences.

As is known, the western mind thinks and sees through a foreground reality as the eastern mind thinks more through a background reality. To get a better perspective of this think in these terms, that the western mind set individualism is of the foreground reality and the eastern mind set of collectivism is of the background reality.

“Generally speaking - there are many exceptions - people in the West tend to be more individualist, and people from Asian countries like India, Japan or China tend to be more collectivist. “

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170118-how-east-and-west-think-in-profoundly-different-ways

There is also a middle ground, a reality that is of both foreground and background realities. It is like in photography, were a good photographer will take note of not just the foreground and background but the middle ground as well. Certain photo shots, like a photo of a model, are focusing primarily on the foreground reality, where a photo shot of the sunset is primarily focused on the background reality. A good photographer will take note of the middle ground, if applicable, in both cases.

I look at it like this. Like a good photographer, a spiritual minded persons of wisdom will take note of the foreground, background and middle ground simultaneously. In an existence of extreme foreground and background created realities, this practice of also focusing on the middle ground reality, the adjoining reality to foreground and background realities, is not easy to focus on as you would expect. Ever wonder where wisdom has vanished to in relation to humanity, in as existence of extreme realities!!

In western countries, the middle income earner is dramatically shrinking, while in eastern countries middle income earners are on the rise. The biggest tax contributes to the collective is being eroded away in western countries!! The present homeless problem in the west is representative of the background, a background created by people primarily focused on the foreground, individualism. I am not saying that this only happens in western countries either, just that it is presently occurring in the west on quite a massive scale. Once any reality or society is governed by people primarily focused on the foreground, individualism, homeless people are sure to be a byproduct of this kind of self-centred reality. Be it an extreme of foreground or back ground realities, primarily focusing on individualism or collectivism, homelessness and the lack of middle income earners is sure to follow.

So the rise of middle income earners in the west in the past was a wise move by the western mind, the focusing on the middle ground as well!! Well, no. Who did this middle income earner reality serve the most? The very same people who created a reality of middle income earners. At no time did the middle income earner serve the collective, without primarily serving the individualism within society/humanity, the people primarily focused on the foreground. The foreground is all about what you can get out of society, not what you can give society.

Now imagine a society or humanity that is primarily focused on the middle ground, a reality that adjoins both foreground and background realities!! In other words a reality that is created on the back of wisdom, a middle ground existence.

Books of Faith: Timeless Antiquities

Written by Mathew Naismith

Firstly, keep in mind that I am not a scholar in books of faith, simply of an awareness of how eastern teachings are of timeless virtues and should in fact be read alike. Also, it is important to note that Christianity and Hinduism are both of eastern origin. In my own evaluation, the western mind is of time and the eastern mind is of timelessness. Often a book of eastern origin written in western languages is written in accordance with time in mind, not timelessness. The bible is a good example as the bible was never of one book to start with.

My wife and I gave a western version copy of the Bhagavad Gita to a person who is a teacher of Yoga. They have read the Bhagavad Gita and stated they have finally mastered the Bhagavad Gita. Well, you never master a book of timeless virtues as these writings are of timelessness, meaning, as each age goes by what is written changes to the age at the time. If you like, books and texts of timeless virtues adapt to each and every age, this can be very different to science or history books, noting that history is often written by the victor.

Once you decipher, and I did mean to use the word decipher here, books and texts into a western language, often the meaning of such books and texts are deciphered with the western mind in mind that is based primarily on time. The western mind is often of transient or transitory existence, the eastern mind is of eternal existence. The bible and Bhagavad Gita are of an eternal existence, the teachings and learning of an eternal existence, of the eastern mind. Yes, you will see this within quantum physics, a western orientation, an orientation due to a mind of eastern and western orientations. Often books and texts like this are of symbolism, therefore need deciphering in accordance with the age.

It is mind boggling how the western mind often refutes to orientate itself with the eastern mind as well, as if the western mind set is the be and end all. You often don't get this with the eastern mind set, this is unless of some kind of extremism. Eastern and western extremism both stagnate or hinder western and eastern mind set orientations.

If you look at the difference between western atheism to eastern atheism, you will note that western atheism is based on a transient or transitory existence, this is very different to eastern atheism, where existence is also based on an eternal existence. The orientation between eternal and transient or transitory existence is very important when reading books and texts written by an eternal mind set in mind.

I could have added various sources to support my conjectures here but I have to leave that up to the individual. Why? Because our mind sets are no doubt going to differ, considering the various orientations of western and eastern mind sets at hand. One must follow one's own path at hand. I am not here to force or teach my own mind set, simply to give a different perspective of orientated mind sets.

When you think about this, energy can't be destroyed, only transformed, being that energy is of the eternal existence!!