When experienced meditators meditate, a large-scale brain network called the Default Mode Network (DMN) becomes inactive. The DMN is a region located throughout our brain and plays a role in distinguishing between the many electrical signals coming through our five senses to prevent them from overlapping in the brain. The DMN becomes more active when one thinks about 'myself', such as 'my things', 'my future', and 'my past', and becomes less active when one thinks about things other than 'myself'. But the interesting thing is that the DMN is not activated when children are young, so when someone asks them something, they do not know how to say 'I'. And the reason why people who meditate see the world as beautiful is because by eliminating the existence of 'I', all virtual values and symbols disappear, and they see the world as it is. Humans, who couldn’t leave the world as it was, created an imaginary symbol called 'I' that didn’t exist in the world in order to understand this world. It seemed that the world could not be explained without 'I', so we created a virtual symbol called 'I' and were finally able to explain this world. After we created ‘I’, many other values were also created. As ‘I’ was created, ‘good people’ and ‘bad people’ were created, and as ‘I’ had beliefs, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ were created. However, “such a person” or “such a thing” does not exist, but is a virtual value created by us. An example to understand better: If you ask someone who has a bf or gf why they like their bf or gf, what will that person say? Because he’s competent and handsome? Because she’s pretty and kind? If that person answers that way, that person doesn’t like their bf and gf, but rather likes the virtual value he/she has given to that other person. Nevertheless, that person who get married thinking he/she truly love that person, when time passes and that person's face changes over time or the once competent person starts to be not competent, they don’t like their partner as before and they see that their partner no longer fits their virtual values and they says that their husband/wife has changed and became different. But no one has changed, the situation has changed. Situation from bf and gf who goes out on a date watching a movie in the cinema to mom and dad who raise their children. They didn't love their partner from the beginning, they didn't see the essence behind the virtual values. What the two saw was the virtual values, and that value changes when the standard and situation changes. The reason why people who meditate see the world as beautiful is because they see the world as it is, with all virtual values and symbols disappearing as the existence of 'I' is eliminated. Do you know how beautiful the world seen that way is? Don't look at the sky as 'sky', don't look at trees as 'trees', and you will realize that this world was full of beautiful art. We have large museums, large screens, and large paintings and sculptures, but the universe uses the entire sky to paint and the entire earth to create sculptures. Moreover, it is moving media art that changes every time! So how can we see the world without expectations? Just love everything! True love is love without ‘me’. If I love everything in this universe, this universe becomes me and I become this universe. At that moment, meditators say “I’m enlightened”. It is not difficult to see the world as it is, because we had already seen it that way. As we were young children, when we couldn’t even say “I,” we saw the world as it was without any standards, without any judgment, and that world was really exciting! Jaden
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Love. What does this four letter word really mean? Well, it means an intense feeling of deep affection, or a great interest, and or a pleasure in something. But really love is not just a feeling. Yes, the feeling is the start of it. But really, love is commitment. I feel that to love someone or something halfway is not realistic. Either you do, or you don’t. So if you do, why not just give it everything. Love is the willingness to sacrifice your needs and to put the needs of someone else’s before yours. At least if it fails, you’ll know you laid it all there. Now, if a little child came up to me asking me what the meaning of love is, I would sit them down and play “L-O-V-E”, Nat King Cole’s famous song. I would tell the story of my first encounter of love. I came down into my kitchen and saw my parents making pancakes together. They were singing at the top of their lungs, and I felt this energy coming off of both of them. Looking into their eyes, I knew that they had special. This is the kind of love between two humans. True love is an unconditional feeling of appreciation and affection. As I grow older, I tend to find myself wishing for that morning to come faster, so I can experience this feeling of love too. But at 16 years old, my love doesn’t have to go to someone else, but it goes to myself. This is called self love. Self love is regard for one’s own well-being and happiness. It is simply one of those concepts that you just receive overtime and do not logically understand it, you just feel it inside of you. Pride gets in the way of a lot of potentially beautiful moments. If you get one life, why not live a great one. Why not live with that feeling of love. After a while, all the little things that you force yourself to live, start to pile up. And then you’re left with a heavy heart and all kinds of regret. All because you wanted to stay safe and not make yourself vulnerable to loving someone or something you are doing. You can’t let hurt change you, as hard as it might try. As humans, we are a result of the experiences life hands us and how we react to those experiences. In all of our experiences, what type of person does it make us if we only are in the “halfway” range. We can all do ourselves a small favour by saying what we need to say and by living passionately. If life can be gone so quickly and so unexpectedly, why not live it with love. A lot can happen in a moment. Love can come in all forms and passions. Just do not be afraid to go and find it. It can be hard to live in such an extreme way; a lot of people will not know how to respond. But there are certain times when it’s better to say too much than to not say enough. Even if you’re hurt or embarrassed, it never lasts forever, that is the beauty of time because eventually things fade.
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