Emancipation
Emancipation=the
fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political
restrictions; liberation
I
was on a self imposed hibernation for nearly one year and want to
emerge out of it, to the real world of entanglement.
One
reason of my hibernation was the US election and Faked News Saga.
The
whole digital world paranoia (Snowdon saga) and the unwanted digital
surveillance was my beta noire.
I
knew of this covert American, Russian and the latest entry China’s
digital surveillance, long before (I do computer forensics and the
Kali Linux type infiltration) American (Washington Post) News exposed
it.
I
called it “Digitally Zeroing” which I tried from 2014 (but could
never achieve it-it is a dangerous addiction but the real reason for
the hibernation was truly personal and has no relationship to the
Internet).
As
a preparation, I gave up fish keeping but entered into new
environmental study, the Water Lilies to pass the time.
I
see no reason for offering flowers at the alter (weddings, garlanding
politicians etc) and an antithesis to insect and animal kingdom
(honey birds included), instead of uttering the Gata which states the
fundamental importance of impermanence in Buddha’s words.
I
did not read any books (TV, Media and daily Papers) or indulged in
writing (stopped finishing of the three books, I started few years
ago, mind you boring medical stuff, no loss to my limited clientele)
and said no to everything (including alcohol-prices not the indulgence)
except basic food which we loved (food quality has gone down
drastically under the new regime but prices going up by the minute).
It
was absolutely invigorating and slept well in spite of the mosquitoes
(it is the mosquito net I worship now) and bit of Metta (how can one
meditate with this mosquito music buzzing) Meditation.
I
also discovered that the some of the feel good hormones do not work
(if you have a tot after the meditation session), if one sip of
spirits is taken in.
The
only substitute for feel good hormone is chocolates (I eat them
plenty) that over score meditation by 300% (the effect of
meditation).
Now
to the topic today.
If
you are not a physicist do not read beyond this point.
I
listened to two of the YouTube discussions on various topics like
holographic world, world of information, the computer universe and
the quantum physics.
Nothing
about dark matter, black holes and expanding or contracting universe
in their discussion.
It
was a mess and a tangled entanglement to me (who was very good in
mathematics and physics from young age).
I
thank myself for not taking up those fields and indulging in mediocre
medicine (not psychology, the biggest entanglement of the modern
world, including modern interpretation of Buddha’s words).
I
went to sleep confused but woke up fully invigorated with a dream.
The
moment I woke up, I momentarily remembered and meditated on late
Prof. A.D.P.Kalansuriya.
He
was the one who introduced me to the basics of philosophy.
He
used to say these guys do not come out of the box and entanglements.
The
dream illustrates his core theme "out of the box thinking".
The
dream goes like this.
It
was in an American Institute of repute or ill repute (which way you look at them).
The
professor standing had four students.
He
boxed them in a square not in the Cat Box of uncertainty.
Each
one of them is one of the four sides of the square.
Each
one has to go high up in his field of thinking to expand the
probability aspect of his or her core value (unfortunately all were
males and not a single female).
What
it does is to make the square bigger but if any one of them goes faster
than his fellow beings the square becomes distorted by laws of
physics and not of mathematics (which is the bottom line of Western
physics).
Ultimately
it became a sphere, not a circle and busted out of our universe and entered another
universe.
Unfortunately,
the dream ended there and I woke up to explore the other universe but I wasn’t there in
reality.
This
is what we call the Western reductionist point of view but in reality
it expanded out of control in the discussion quoted above.
This
dream amused me a lot and took the book “The all embracing Net of
Views (Brahmajala Sutta)” out to read.
But
in this type of situation what one should really do is to drop all
the views (that is what Ana Pana Sati Meditation teaches you) one by
one and enter into the void (Sunnatta) which frees one from
the tangled entanglement.
If
one can goes to the furthest end (very difficult scenario) that is
what is called emancipation (liberation may not be the correct term)
in Buddhism.
It
sets one free to the bondage of attachment and is not a void at all.