INTELLECTUAL FOOLS AND POLARITIES
The more you know the more you have an identity crisis
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Mind is polarised. The world is polarised.
We swing between the polarities of paganism and atheism, Good and Bad, Leftist and rightist and so on.
This is why I say that spirituality is about realising and transcending these polarities.
To go beyond the swing of mind.
Enlightenment.
It is crucial to understand that the polarities thrive on the information.
Formations of the ideas.
Often intellectual fools carry this information without understanding the fact that it was induced to polarise the person.
This is true for political propaganda as well as for religious propaganda.
The goal is to separate the collective consciousness by depriving the individuals of the truth.
Keeping their minds busy with the influx of information promotes division based on caste, religion, political beliefs and class.
This propaganda needs intact to survive.
A dumb person is way better off than an intelligent one when it comes to a person used as a vehicle for a message wrapped in beautiful words.
The very aim of a tyrant, priest or politician is to inject information into minds of the intelligent people to spread their message.
The very nature of an intelligent person is to display his intelligence.
The propagated material becomes the means for the person to show off what he knows.
If you are on a spiritual path, and reciting scriptures by heart or entertaining yourself with theology, you are deceiving yourself.
You feel good about the Illusion of intellectualism.
It is not a treatment for the mind, it is a conditioning.
Not to mention, very childish.
Parrots.
Entertaining the mind becomes the purpose for such people.
It\’s not about winning the argument but about winning the person\’s heart.
The goal is to liberate the mind. Mind strives on the information.
A mirage that occurs to be true.
Let us inspect what the mind attached to the accumulation of information can do to the seeker.
You lose friends
Friend no longer remains your friend, partner or even a foe, he is present only physically, not mentally.
He is obliged to the formality of occurrence.
Like a student sitting in a boring lecture on the subject, he hates from his core.
No one cares about how much you know.
Everyone cares about what you know can do for others.
Service.
It is one thing to know how something works in theory and another how it might be applied to life.
You can not operate on a patient by only reading the medical textbooks.
Anything else is overeating the knowledge and vomiting the words in public.
It is an act of a weak person, to feel strong. To have a bit of worth in the public eye.
To my observation, such people have very shallow friends, and close to no relationship with their spouse.
In reality, they hide their pain and insecurities with the decorative mask of knowledge.
Identity crisis
To the very essence of life does not have an identity.
It has a nature of nature.
Looking at things from different perspectives and gathering information urges you to find your place and stature.
It\’s a fruitless and demoralising effort.
We can have many forms and many identities. There is nothing absolute about it.
When I am in a situation where I am supposed to be a business person, I become one.
When I am happy I become the happiness.
That doesn’t mean I am a happy person. It simply means that I am happy in that particular moment.
It is not constant. And not my permanent identity.
The very notion of image and identity is induced by external factors.
Advertisement and Propaganda.
People in power want to control powerless people.
Powerless people are the most eager to assume the identity to feel they are worth something.
They will identify to a gender, caste, creed, cult, religion, political party or corporate brand.
The influx of information adds to the confusion and identity crisis.
A person with such a crisis is bound to segregate himself from society as he doesn’t understand where and how to connect.
His being is challenged.
Shredding the need to be identified, will establish a connection with the world from a very sacred place.
From the inner core, which is not biased and becomes whatever you think of.
What is the purpose of information?
The inherent nature of information is to flow.
To reach the masses using masses as an instrument.
The key is to understand how it affects your life as a consumer.
Information received with awareness can be helpful.
Without the awareness, it is brainwashing.
With awareness you are involved in the formation of the information, without awareness it is nothing more than an interruption to the flow of your meditative state.