I see. Yes, I’ve been in those movements. I attended a meditation course for ten days a couple of months ago. I meditated for about 10 hours a day. During all of these hours, I was just sitting idle.
A man sat by the bus window, a labourer in his late 30s, his skin darkened by long hours under the harsh sun. The exhaustion was bone-deep — no amount of sleep could ease it. It had simply become a part of him, as natural as the weight of his head resting on his neck. He was a bit hungry, but it didn’t matter; his body knew it would get food in about an hour.
Life is an Itch.Itching is Suffering.Scratching this itch is Happiness.Believing that scratching will remove the itch is Illusion (Maya).The resources gathered to scratch are Wealth.One who lacks these resources is Poor.
Have you ever wondered how it might feel to lack any of our senses? How would it be if we didn’t know what it’s like to see, hear, taste, smell, or feel anything? Let’s explore this idea by considering the perspective of a person who has been visually impaired since birth. A person who doesn’t know what “seeing” actually is. He might wonder how something like “color” may exist when it cannot be heard, smelled, touched, or tasted. Just turn off the lights….. You can say:- “What’s tough? I know how ‘seeing’ feels, so I can surely tell you how ‘not seeing’ would feel. I can close my eyes or turn off the lights for the same experience.” But what if I tell you that the experience of “not seeing” would also require knowledge of “seeing”? How can you tell if something is not sweet until you know what sweet feels like? Also, when you close your eyes or turn off the lights, you see the “dark.” You’re not “seeing Nothing.” Try closing one eye with your hand and seeing what you see from that closed eye. It might help you imagine what eyelessness could feel like, but the world of blind people isn’t just about the absence of sight. The most surprising fact is that they are unaware of the concept of vision, which makes their world so different from ours. Of course he can think of a car. To understand this better, let’s try an exercise:- Close your eyes and imagine a red car. Do you think a blind person would have the same perception? You can say, “They might not know colors, but they can understand the car’s shape by touching it, which can help them create a colorless image in their minds.”
