Albert Herdianto Widjojo
The nice thing about going out of town via the toll road on weekdays during working hours is free from traffic jams. The mind will be more easily invited to appreciate everything that is around than to be bound to resentment because of slowness and delay.
A smooth road plus fine weather is a blessing. Blessings to see the blue sky and everything that becomes bright from the sun. At the point of enjoying the scene, a unique understanding emerged in mine, that from here, all the luminous rays came from the sun, but up there, from the sun, there was nothing but the sun. Likewise, with seeing the sky in the rearview mirror, there will be no sky in the mirror if there is no blue sky up there, so also if the mirror breaks, the sky remains. That is the mirror, the surface that reflects what is in front of it, and the surface itself is “non-existent”, meaning that it does not have its own form.
Hmmm… I think that is a picture of the manifestation of The Existence. But, I think that is not the mind, because it is difficult for the mind to understand that all existence originates and belongs to The Existence in the same way as sunlight, in the end, is nothing but the sun. Also like the cosmos which is a reflection, reflected by the “nonexistence”, from something that forms the cosmos.
This inspiration seems to intend to say that everything in the universe is a mirror that reflects the provisions of the One, Being, and Absolute Reality, where that is the only exists, the Alpha and Omega of all existence and also the only Reality and being here and now of all that appears to us as independent objects and reality. This inspiration also seems to mean to say that this is the highest goal of human life to return to our pre-existential reality.
Ahh… I’m lucky for the driving friend asked me to talk and break the journey of inspiration. If not, maybe I will go too far.
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Have you ever been so immersed in the enjoyment of observation?
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Do you often have inspiration that looks very different from what the senses can capture and digest by the mind?
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I can observe a lot of things even when I drive and paint, but I do not
When the vehicle moves, the object we observe will also shift, and that will make our observation limited. It’s different from daydreaming or thinking about something while driving. Do you daydream while driving? lol
Thank you so much, Lado.
I may just dream of not-me, but sometimes they rely on thoughts
Well, that’s how our mind… hardly can’t stay quiet. Always jump here and there…
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Great post, Albert!…….
Thank you so much, Milena.
Ah what a great question – the easy answer is yes. Then of course you got me thinking, realizing that yes isn’t the only answer. Always is a better answer, but then of course there are always the questions that come to mind.
So never then would be the answer.
Always, thinking about something, but never thinking about anything at all.
It’s always fun to discuss with a philosopher like you, Doc. I am happy that you open the refrigerator and choose something to chew according to your wishes. lol
However, I’m so glad that you’ve enriched this writing for that is an important part of it.
First, the line opening the refrigerator and choosing something to chew based on my wishes, made me laugh out loud (which was disruptive and a couple of people glared at me).
Truly, the joy in reading is always a warm feeling on a cool day!
I agree that discussion and laughter can warm the atmosphere.
Blame me if people glare at you.
I shall tell them it was your fault that I disrupted their lunch!
Glad to read you did have a driver and were not taking pics while driving. 🙂
I often find myself thinking of other things especially while driving.
Of course, I will try to focus while driving, but thank you for your concern, Carol.
Well, indeed our thoughts when in the beta wave can never stay in one object, always wild and jump here and there. That’s why we need to practice to reach and remain in alpha and theta or…
Yes and I do that, I try to do brain games a lot. Re-training your brain perhaps it is called.
Wow! So glad that you re-training your brain, Carol. That’s the important part of meditation, right?
I’m confused… the mirror has a form, doesn’t it?
The form that limits how much it can reflect and in what shape it reflects?
Though about inspiration, I’ve had people telling me, “are you sure it’s inspired by X? Because it’s nothing like X!” but that was more in the past… I somehow stuck in a mirror with form now …
but I guess that is the homework …
The mirror in question is “surface”, whether it’s the surface of the water, the window, even the mirror itself. It has no form, that is to say, that if it shows you because it is faced with you, then the form that appears is you, and not the mirror.
Imagine, what if X manifested as anything, everything, whether “which is like” or “nothing like X”, without time limits… What if it was said that the world was mysteriously drowning in X?
Ahh… My apology if I made you confused. But I am happy for at least you feel you have a homework. I can only say that Unity of Being, or Oneness, say X, can only be known by experiencing it spiritually.
I spend a lot of time in vehicles. It’s is kind of scary when I realize I have gone miles and don’t really know where I am.
I suggest you concentrate fully while driving so as not to get lost unless someone is driving for you, then you can daydream as much as you want.
lol
Nice photo and I also love to observe things while driving. In the mornings when driving to work the sunrises are so awesome.
Observing is an important thing to do, but you have to be careful to do it while you driving.
We always see life in a different perspective.
Agree. The difference in perspective is very human, my friend. But in this context, there really are only “a few perspective groups”.
That makes us even more humans. see things in a different light.
Again. I totally agree with you.
Oh, I see you are interested in metaphysical things too.
Ohh… Ann, if you read most of my writing, actually spirituality or metaphysics is my main interest, even the reason I am in this community. Because you ask that question, is that your interest too?
Definitely, although this interest is usually something I pursue on my own rather than discussing it with others. Although I think maybe it pursues me rather than me pursuing it. Of late I have been meeting quite a few people of that persuasion. I guess we are all coming out of the closet at the same time.
I believe that there is no coincidence, including our friendship here.
I, too, believe that there is no coincidence, Albert.
Hmmm… That is our other something in common, Ann.