Focus on Life™

For us the visible reality is the real thing. We associate ourselves with it and respond to it as well. Often we feel uncomfortable and find hard to match with the world around us. Inside we are at distress with the outer reality. It does not reflect our ideal inner state.

Throughout the ages it has been said that the visible world is not real or it is called as an illusion or maya. Plato had his famous The Allegory of the Cave which described the same with a dark cave and shadows that the people we’re obliged to observe - not the true figures or the outside world. These metaphors are hard to grasp and to realise by us living in the modern world.

Still nothing could be more true. Maybe the phrasing could be different but the original message remains intact - always. This visible reality is the one where we communicate and observe. Still we are present in other planes as well. They are not visible to us but still we are members on those ones as well. Beside the physical body we have also our feelings and emotions as well as our mental capabilities. They are as real for anyone as the physical world itself even thought we cannot see them.

So, where’s the real reality and what does it mean? The world every wisdom tries to illustrate and refer to is the reality of thoughts. That is where anything is first created - it is thought out. Only after that it can be expressed and materialised. No matter are we talking about going shopping, building a house or even speaking. First it has to be created and then it is a matter of realisation depending on the case at hand.

A thought without any feeling is not complete. Saying ‘I love you’ without a feeling is meaningless. Similarly the feeling or the passion / desire has to be combined with the thought. Together they are something. This applies to talking, building a house or any other matter. (The third required element is power or will to execute or carry out the matter but this is just a hint for the considerate reader and not relevant for the topic.)

Why should we not focus on the outside world and instead purely concentrate on the inner higher reality? No matter where you look you find the wise words that encourage to look inside or as Pythagoras has so nicely put it: “Man know thyself then thou shalt know the Universe and God.” These should not be understood in a manner that one ignores the visible world or isolates from the world. They purpose is to encourage to focus on the essence or the source where everything is really taking place and where one can have control and real influence on the visible world.

First this may sound quite a bizarre or contrary but just consider how much in control of your world you really are? Are you pretending to be in control or just really facing the facts that you are only an observer for the occurring events. A feeling of being in control is not the same as having a real influence on the issues and understanding what’s really causing them. Can you have a peaceful and happy life?

Some people can. And they have followed the advice. They have realised that in order to achieve something one has to look inside and find it first there and only after that can it materialise in the outer world as well. Actually nothing can prevent it from occurring shall the desire be strong and persistent enough. Why is this so hard to believe and start to implement?

Simply because we are used to live and look outside of ourselves. We take it as granted that by doing something in the outside world we can make something to happen in our desired manner. But what happens when you start to do this? One creates a perpetuity machine without even realising it and having a chance to jump out. Often only the final desperation makes the person to get out of the cul-de-sac and start to look inside for strength. Only then can something start to happen. The reason for this is very simple. The outside reality is just a mere cause of the activities that happened before - ie. the results or the reflections of the mental thoughts and feelings. Nothing can ever change in the outer reality till the thought and emotional structures are changed accordingly.

One has to ’see’ and ‘feel or believe’ together the desired outcome first and only then it can start to happen. If you just look the current state of the visible world and take it as granted without any creative and passionate effort then nothing will ever improve or change. Actually the opposite often happens. A negative spiral is created - things look so bad and hence I will be so depressed and so on. Naturally a positive inspiration and feeling is also possible to happen - then only the sky is the limit - isn’t it?

Why is this so hard to believe - still? Since we do not see the real reality and thus we do not consider it matters. We think that we can think, feel or say whatever we feel like without much consideration or significance. And look the state of the world today! Have we been able to live in peace and love each other as humans? How about your thoughts and feelings - only loving and peaceful everyday and towards everything, permanently?

Maybe we should start to consider more carefully the wise words repeated so often to us throughout the centuries. We even have living proves of people who have achieved a permanent state of tranquility and happiness. Even the latest science do not disapprove this. Einstein and quantum mechanics can do wonders if one wants to study them. Why is it so that the observer effects the observation or to put it differently the thought effects the thinker.

Have you ever considered what dying means? Often we are
very shady and quiet about death. It is something we do not
want to consider or think about. It is a taboo. It is something
that only happens to somebody else—not to us. In other
words—we are afraid of it. But why?

What exactly are we afraid of? Something we do not know
anything about? Maybe.

Dying means that we are departed instantly from every-
thing we are attached to and have. We have to give away
everything so familiar and “natural” to us, something and
everything we have taken for granted. Our health, physical
body, friends, family, wealth, possessions, lifestyle, habits, and
so on. This is death. It is detachment.

Clinging and attachment do not have to be physical in
nature. We can have obsessions, desires, needs, and cravings.
Suddenly we cannot satisfy those by physical means anymore.
We are forced to be without them. This is death.

We have to die in order to live. What does that mean? We
think that we are alive and kicking when we are driven by our
lower qualities like desire, lust, obsession, and so on.
Satisfying and fulfilling these consume most of our lives. We
call this living. We are in a never-ending circle where old
needs are fulfilled and instantly new ones arise. How liberat-
ing and happy!

Being truly alive means that we are free to live, not
obsessed or forced continuously to fulfil something. Free to
be.In order to achieve this, we have to set ourselves free from
our attachments and desires. They are strong and we cannot
win them by force. The more we resist them, the larger they
become. We can beat them only by ignoring them, by learn-
ing to live without them, by detaching ourselves from every-
thing in a similar manner—as death will do to us, finally, but
this time we do it voluntarily, gradually.

It is a misunderstanding to believe that detachment will
mean literally dying and living without anything interesting
or fun. On the contrary, how much fun and freedom do you
have when you are obsessed by something? Detachment does
not mean giving up living—only giving away all the attach-
ment and clinging. You can still enjoy the sunrise and have a
delicious meal, but the difference is that those do not bear any
utility value for you anymore—they simply are. There is no
need for anything. One is not lacking anything because need
implicitly declares a lack of something (i.e., the object of the
need).

Clinging and attachment are based on ignorance, and de
facto the only thing to give away is the wrong understanding.
Greater wisdom liberates. Always.

Life is eternal harmonious breathing, in and out. Like in
breathing, there are three stages to life: in(halation), balance
(pauses),and out (exhalation).

Life is oscillation in various energy states. Higher ones
contain more intelligence and possibilities than lower ones.
Life is an eternal joy of transformation of oscillation levels.
These previously mentioned three stages include the harmony
within: simply add negative and positive together and these
two create a balance, a harmony that can be merged to the
oneness or divided once again into three components (1+2).
The illusion of isolation and disharmony can be created by
observing only from the point of view of either side of the
duality. No matter how much relative imbalance either of the
sides seems to have, the other counterbalances equal an
amount in the opposite direction: the complete duality set is
always in balance. These are the unbreakable, eternal, conser-
vation laws of physics.

From a four-dimensional point of view, we can describe real-
ity as an endless, interlinked, and multilayered oscillating vortex.
Larger structures include the smaller ones within and the scal-
ing (observation level) is only limited by the observer (which
naturally is part of the observation and not outside of it).

What does all this have to do with meditation? We all have
our own natural oscillation levels. Meditation is a practice
where we try to extend the consciousness or, in other words,
increase the oscillation frequency into a permanently higher
state. Our personality is the resonator or filter that prevents
the energy states going higher permanently. Naturally this is
good in a case where one is not tolerant of a high amount of
energy and hence could be damaged/destroyed by too much
of it. So, meditation is about loosening our seals (or energy
filters/dams) and getting ourselves used to higher oscillation
frequencies.

Why is meditation so difficult? Imagine that every atom
and molecule of your body is oscillating in a certain low fre-
quency. Atoms are moving slowly and it takes a lot of energy
to get them excited. While meditating you increase the
energy flow within your body and try to make yourself vibrate
faster. In the beginning, this is very exhausting and requires a
lot of energy—like getting a ship/truck moving from a stand-
still. It takes less energy to increase the velocity while the
movement is already taking place. Similarly, continuous prac-
tice of meditation makes reaching the previous oscillation
level easier.

Even though the example deals with a “physical” situation,
meditation is purely a mental practice. The practitioner needs
to focus and align the internal energy flows and use this con-
centration for expanding the consciousness. The fewer the
distractions (thoughts and the like),the more united and effi-
cient the results. Finally, the practitioner is capable of realiz-
ing the balance state between/beyond duality and just simply
be—become enlightened.

Reaching the harmonious state means that we have per-
manently (relative term) reached the higher oscillation fre-
quency within the larger context out of which we are a part.
The balance state simply means that the practitioner oscil-
lates the frequency of the larger unity without any of his or
her own counterwaves or disturbing energies. In other words,
the practitioner unites or becomes a drop in the ocean.
Naturally, this larger part is increasing its oscillation level as
well, but in this context the larger part needs the support of
the smaller units to reach its next level. As long as the smaller
parts (or critical mass of them) have not increased their indi-
vidual frequency levels, the larger part cannot increase its
incremental level either. For example, think about either the
cells within your body or humans in the context of a planet.

Everything is in oscillation. Each and every atom is in its
perpetual motion and atoms are never stable and steady, even
though our mind persuades otherwise. Each molecule struc-
ture or form (larger or smaller) has its own vibration frequency.
Remember what an opera singer can do to a wine glass or a
synchronously marching division to a bridge? This is exactly
what meditation is about. Finding the right tune or note,
which you become permanently. Cleansing your thoughts and
controlling your emotions are important for the same reason—
they are vibrating energy as well. Lower oscillation levels pre-
vent you from progressing. Higher frequencies can be created
only by giving them space from the lower ones. And as a
reminder, our bodies are 70 percent water, which stores,
receives, and transmits vibrations very easily. Conservation and
maintaining are always easier than progression.

Just food for thought: What are colors, music, and talk?

How does it feel to dive with a diving suit? How about being a
water molecule?