Your reality bubble
Alot of us are under this illusion that we are all living in the same world, facing the same issues, and that what is true for one is true for all.
Id like to propose (not a new idea to spiritualist studies im sure) that although we bump into other physical bodies, who we bump into is determined by the reality bubble we have created through our focus.
Imagine the world as a high-rise.
Each floor in this high-rise is dominated by people sharing a passionate opinion and living the reality of that opinion/belief out.
On one floor there are people who feel strongly about veganism.
One half of the floor believes everyone ought to be vegans;
the other half thinks you cannot live without meat in the diet and thinks they have the science to back it up.
Floor two may be politically inclined,with both sides playing that out.
Floor three might be human rights, floor four may be different in the way that one half are fashion oriented and the other half those that find it a waste of resources.
There are millions upon millions of floors, and we the inhabitants may enjoy taking the elevator to visit different floors and take our sides there. More often than not, we have a floor we feel at home on, and we always tend to come back to.
The problem inherent in this situation is that everything you live is colored by the topic shared on the floor you reside on. Unless we are willing to take the elevator, FIND THE TIME TO TAKE THE ELEVATOR, other topics are not as big of a priority and those on other floors are seldom seen.
This is an overly simplistic description of the reality bubble Im talking about.
Im absorbed on youtube in the ideas shared by Master Yogiraj Siddhanath.
I think what I have come to realize is that our breaking of the reality bubble is through meditation.
I find myself repelled believing that only one kind of meditation or a specific number of minutes of meditation will be effectual.
Everyone is different in the way that we do not all require the same dosages of medication.
I tested my theory out one day when I found myself completely obsessed with a bad bodily-condition. It was what I thought about while eating, while doing dishes, while playing with my kids.
I thought ” Im not really here right now. Im in this space where even though I am interacting with other people, I am not hearing them, I am not feeling them, for all intents and purposes…I am not HERE”
I decided at that point ( focusing on discomfort is anxiety- creating and exaustive ) I was going to slow my breathing down and meditate.
It probably took a good 10 minutes to concentrate enough on my breathing to effectively stop my thoughts in the direction they were used to going. It felt like I was wasting my time, and I had a bunch of stuff I had to do that day.
After aprox 10 minutes though I felt what Abraham describes as “my cork floating to the top” .
Abe says negativity called “resistance” is us holding our cork beneith the water, and that meditation effectively allows the cork to bounce back up to the surface. Result being calm or happiness.
For me, meditation ….. if allowed to go on long enough ….. works.
The other oppotunity that meditation provided was that I was able to have this epiphany-
Everything I was feeling negative about, as REAL as they were, was able to be seen with another perspective.
If I was depressed about my situation but not severely,
taking the elevator to a distracting floor is an option.
Meditation however, is more like the space in between reality bubbles;
its not a floor in the high-rise at all but the same as maybe leaving the high-rise to go outside and take a walk.
Anyhoo, when I am accessing the youtube videos that anyone can find on my profile page, I am not in search of a philosophy or a religion. None of it is actually religious but instead cultural.
Its more about finding healthy alternatives to cope with life, and then moving beyond coping to enjoying and finding bliss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M8X1xD9WCU
“A lot of us are under this illusion that we are all living in the same world, facing the same issues, and that what is true for one is true for all.”
Very true words…remind me of what Richard Bach writes, in ‘Illusions’.
“Six billion people….living in six billion worlds…on one planet.”
Everybody lives in his own world. Nothing wrong with it. As long as they don’t torture and kill each other.
You further write:
“Abe says negativity called “resistance” is us holding our cork beneith the water, and that meditation effectively allows the cork to bounce back up to the surface. Result being calm or happiness.”
I agree with this totally. Eckhart Tolle says one of the biggest causes of negativity is resisting the NOW. Resisting the current life situation. Inacceptance of what IS. Dreaming, a bit too much, about some future nirvana, and dreaming, a bit too much, about a past paradise. Past paradise, or a past painful paradise.
He talks of the average human’s ‘psychological need to move to the next moment’. This is the cause of negativity. Living in the NOW frees up energy trapped in thinking about the past/future—this tremendous energy resource, once freed up, generates in the person a zest for life, previously unknown.
He says ‘you have been trying to move to the next moment, for many lifetimes….just stop trying. Just be in the NOW. That is the only answer.’
He says an enlightened person lives in the NOW, and does not resist life. Does not complain. Not even mentally. And accepts everything….he quotes J Krishnamurthy’s secret to a healthy life….”I dont mind anything.”
You write “Space in between reality bubbles, leaving the hi-rise”….nice words….Eckhart Tolle says the same thing about meditation……..that it is about transcendeing the mind—-i.e. not flowing with it, but watching it, silently. Stepping into the space between the reality bubbles. Taking a walk, outside of the the mad mad mad high rise!
I have an interesting blog entry, called ‘The Lens of the Mind’. Which deals with issues you might interesting.
http://vikram-madan.blogspot.com/2007/03/mental-lens-very-good-example-of-direct.html
regards
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