ON A QUEST

In the previous post I played with the word QUESTION which can be seen as QUEST-I-ON = I am ON a QUEST
On a quest towards what? Now that's a good question!

First of all let's see what does QUEST mean.
From the dictionary I found these meanings:
noun

1. 1.

   
   
   

   a long or arduous search for something.

   
   

   "the quest for a reliable vaccine has intensified"

   synonyms:

   search, hunt "their quest for her killer"

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verb

1. 1.

   
   
   

   search for something.

   
   

   "he was a real scientist, questing after truth"

In other words we are seeking something. Now, everybody's looking for something (lol, the song by Eurythmics comes in my mind now).  Whether wealth, health, a car, a boyfriend/girlfriend, a new dress, luxury...you get it. 

But is this what life's all about, you get your million dollar house and die? Of course if you're an atheist you may say, that is so. If you're a believer you might think " yeah, I believe Buddha, Jesus existed and that they were saints". In this last case, then what what are you doing with this belief? Are you questioning these beings, are you doing some research and especially, are you living their teachings? 

If we start questioning from wherever we are, whether you are an atheist, looking for luxury, wealth, even sex we can see in the end that what we want is what we can get out of these emotionally.  For example, why would you want wealth, luxury? To have what you want, to feel settled and stable, to have "peace of mind", to be happy etc..

But also in the realm of spirituality we want these side effects, with the difference that first these side effects are sought and then  the external reality adjusts to these. 

So in the end we are seeking to feel better with ourselves and others if we wanna keep it simple. But since we are questioning here, it's necessary to go further.

What does it mean to "feel better with ourselves and others"?

See you in the next post!

"Understand, any moment, if you stop seeking, you start worshipping ignorance, avidyā. Today’s subject for Vaakyartha Sadas is how to keep seeking continuously, how not to allow the worship of ignorance in our life." Paramahamsa Nithyananda

THE UNKNOWN (PART 2)

In my previous post I was asking  some questions, not that much to answer them but to make us notice something, that we often don't ask ourselves questions. And if, when we do we generally don't do much research to find the answer. But the main question is not the question from which we expect certain defined answers but to ask ourselves the right questions first of all. 
And to ask the right questions we gotta be observers of what's happening around us and inside us. 
Because it's through questioning, or better pure questioning (like Paramahamsa Nithyananda says) that we start our quest towards something that is more meaningful to us, towards our real Self. 

Why do we even start consciously seeking? What are we looking for really and why? Some masters say that in the end there's really no meaning to life, some say there there is, that when the questioner merges with the question there is no more questioning, all of these questions don't make sense anymore in the end. So if at this point If we haven't realized that we're already enlightened then let's go forward, lol!
I'm one of those who like to understand the meaning of words and notice  other ways how to see a word. It's interesting how the word "question" can be read as QUEST-I-ON, in other words I am ON a QUEST. Quest towards what, where? 
We're gonna make an attempt to answer this one going forward.
:) 

THE UNKNOWN (PART 1)

“For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows” Mother Meera

“Worshipping everything unknown in our life is prayer” Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Think about it, you notice to have a body. You’re reading this through your physical eyes but how much do you know of how your eyes function, your brain or  your metabolism at this moment? Isn’t it odd that right now, while you are feeling to be seated while reading this you yourself don’t know how you function?

So just like when a car is broke we bring it to the mechanics, we bring ourselves to the doctor when we notice that something isn’t working in us, and sometimes we don’t even know what it is! You can imagine how better it would be to know how we function then! If we don’t even know how our body works, imagine our emotions, mind. How do you feel, what are you thinking in general and now?

From this we can understand that we don’t know ourselves really 100%. At a temple of Apollo at Delphi it’s written “Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe and God.”  There are unknown parts of us and science doesn’t know the cure to all diseases neither. We don’t know everything about the human body, about earth, imagine then the universe.

Is there a relationship between what happens inside us and outside? Are these two aspects separated or is it just an arbitrary choice of the mind to distinguish these?

Imagine this: a leaf of a tree at a microscope, when it is enlarged, the same image, pattern is repeated again, at a smaller scale and when that smaller scale is enlarged the pattern is repeated again and so on. In the end, the smaller pattern is a reflection of the overall pattern, right? In the neuroscientific field researchers are starting to understand that there’s a relationship between what’s happening in different sections of our brain and the outside with algebraic topology (1).

Many ancient scriptures said it, that man (microcosm) is a reflection of the universe (macrocosm). “As above, so below”, an other guy, Hermes Trimegistus used to say.
These are all different ways to say that everything is our mirror, our reflection.

You have heard, maybe passing above your head that thoughts create our reality, that thoughts are matter but we kind of tend to forget this or think it’s just a way to say since we cannot see the thoughts with our physical eyes. 
Is there anything that connects the inside to the outside, is separation a distorted perception or illusion of the mind?

To be continued…

1)    Algebraic topology (AT) is a branch of mathematics that uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. Studying the brain through AT, scientists were able to map the brain able to create multi-dimensions.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602234/how-the-mathematics-of-algebraic-topology-is-revolutionizing-brain-science/

What is Synchronicity?

The word synchronicity was coined by the psychiatrist and anthropoligist Carl Gustav Jung to describe “the acausal connection of two or more psychic and physical phenomena” (1) . Jung studied these coincidences, acasual phenomena together with the Nobel prize for Physics Wolfgang Pauli, known for the “Pauli exclusion principle” according to which when two coupled electrons are separated even at a large distance, and the spin (direction, verse) of one electron changes also the spin of the other changes simultanelty and instanstantly. What can this pratically mean?That indenpendently from space and time everything is interconnected.

Thus thanks to synchronicities we have a glimpse of Oneness!

Now let's see better what is this all about and how we can experience more synchronicities in our lives.

First of all, it's necessary to distinguish between the meaning of “coincidences” versus “synchronicities”. Generally when we think of a coincidence we associate it to something random with no meaning, it just happens and there's no source to it. While a synchronicity is connected to something else, that has a meaning; an other definition of synchronicity is indeed “meaningful coincidence” or “synchronic event”. Therefore when something is synchronic it means that it happens while something else is happening, at the same time.

“A meaningful coincidence or synchronic event

is the result of two or more events connected by

a relation of an an analogous meaningful content” (2)

Although being a well known physicist, Pauli was also known for ruining any experiment with his only presence. Did this happen by chance? Everytime he entered in the laboratory something happened. Expensive machines would break, something would go on fire, and events of this kind to the point where this phenomenon was called “Pauli Effect” (2)

Here we can start to understand more clearly the link with Paul's principle and the principle of Oneness (known as Advaita in Hinduism) and how -an other principle of quantum physics- it's the observer who modifies what is observed, making us understand how the state and space of the observer is important to “modify” what is observed, thus said differently, to manifest our reality.

So when we start to understand that the observer and the observed are one and the same, we start to understand that it's not really what is observed that changes, but us ourselves. And that's the secret!

Some examples of synchronicities in my life:

• I'm having an English conversation during which I bring a scientific article to talk about. The only thing I knew about the person was that she's a doctor, so I just thought to bring her a scientific article which turned out to be about the specific field she works in. Also she was shocked to notice this!
• Thinking I'd like some hummus but cannot go out, after an hour my friend knocks at my room door asking me if I wanted the hummus his sister made- which never happened before.
• While somebody writes me on FB asking me how many languages I know and thinking “that's an odd question!” immediately from nowhere a video on youtube from Paramahamsa Nithyananda's channel goes on and I hear his voice saying “why do you need to know a language? Language is just for communication. Period!”
• I'm buying a bus ticket, the guy who's selling me it says to a person: “at 11:30!”, not even a second later I turn around and there's a group of youung people, one says “Let's meet at 11:30”!

I can make many other examples, but the point with people who don't believe or have experiences with synchronicities is that for them a coincidence happens rarely. For me they happen pretty frequently. Why? Because I notice them. And I can say also an other thing, that syncronicities really do happen to everyone, we just don't notice/aren't aware of them. Once I saw a synchronicity happening to a friend of mine who used to live with me, the story is too long but it went like this. The synchronicity was evident, after it happened he just went into his room without being surprised so I knocked at this door and asked him if he noticed anything, he seemed almost worried and said “no”. After I told him, he answered, that yes it's true what I said, but he just didn't give importance to it. I told him that yep, that was the point. That or 1. we don't notice them or 2. we don't give importance to it maybe by saying “oh, it's just a coincidence!”

So one way to bring synchronicities in our lives is to be aware to what's happening around us and to just play with the thought and belief (it doesn't cost anything, if it doesn't work after a few months you can stop) that there aren't any coincidences. But to be aware, we also have to be aware of our thoughts that come in the way, not making us notice the synchronicities.

'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.' Albert Einstein

Bibliography

1. http://www.carl-jung.net/synchronicity.html
2. The Power of the Quantum Brain by Italo Pentimalli and J.L Marshall

Written by Anna Leporace