werdafakawe!

We have Samasara, Illusion, we have Samskara, Impression.

There's not much difference between an impression and an illusion is there.

On a practical level, if we believe in levels, where do we find ourselves? The many facets of the mind, as described in the multi-dimensional reality model of the psychosynthesis framework, written in an earlier blog, only serves to confuse unless you get it. If you agree that you are capable of being yourself, and that yourself is able to move and alter to adapt to certain situations, then you have to agree with the multi-faceted self. If you don't then you must believe in a mono-self, which would be a self that cannot adjust to any situation that it is not suited to. This type of self would have to live within a very tight boundary to keep safe in it's rigid structure. Remember Asana practise develops flexibility and strength in the mind as well as the body.

Added to that the idea that we live in a world full of others who are being multi-faceted selves it can get even more confusing. In fact It's a miracle that we can communicate at all from this perspective. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus goes some way to explain the difference inherent in our gender constructs only, it gives no account to the uniqueness of us all. The way I see it humans are very similar but also very unique, we all look similar but all have our own unique identity in our fingerprints, psychological makeup, and our DNA code.

The story goes that there is a tribe somewhere in the deepest forests of Africa or maybe the Amazon. The people in the tribe are very small and the area they inhabit has very tall grass. In order to find themselves and their geographical location they sometimes jump up and down trying to see over the tall grass. As they do this they shout out the phrase, werdafakawe, werdafakawe. Using this as a metaphor we see that when we sit and empty our mind we are doing that too. We are getting a grounding into where we are in space and time, what we are doing in this moment in space and time, what we 'should' be doing in this moment in space and time, and more importantly what we 'want' to be doing in this moment in space and time.

What else is there ?????

Hari Om Tat Sat.