“Joy- The happiness that comes from within”, “The Art of living-Manase relax please”- I have read quite a few books on my pursuit of understanding why I am living in misery. One thing good in all these books are they tell small but good stories to explain their ideologies/concepts/philosophies.
One of the biggest impacts of globalisation is the confusion of common man by the books of western and eastern philosophies. Both the philosophies differ on their outlook towards life. Definitely both can’t be practiced at the same time. After globalisation these philosophies were brought in the book form to common man. After reading all these books, he gets confused a lot like me.
When I start comparing Western and Eastern philosophy, the western tells me to try hard, plan for life, be ambitious, dream big and hope for the best. On the other hand the eastern tells me to give up trying, never be ambitious, forget the future, and live in the present.
Practically speaking, my life is mere replica of western philosophy. I believe the society is built on western philosophy. But this life brings me misery. So it’s clear that the western philosophy brings misery to life. That’s why I’m in search of books life the above mentioned.
Those books explained me why I am in misery. They told me that it’s due to pursuit of western philosophy in life. That may be true. They tell me to live naturally to get away from misery. They present a green pasture of life with eastern philosophy.
But I doubt will it be green even after I jump into eastern philosophy. More than that I strongly doubt will I be able to practice the eastern philosophy naturally. The practice of eastern philosophy itself looks unnatural to me.
Osho says love your work. Come on Mr.Osho! I am not able to love my work! That’s why I am coming to you. How stupid I should have been by just thinking that someone else will solve my problem. Ok. I am not able to love my work. Then, you say the same thing in different words, do what I love. Once again it’s a problem. I do not know what I love. I am sorry, I am very common man. What else you want me to do. You want me to meditate. How can I mediate when meditation doesn’t happen to me naturally? You tell me to live like an artist. Yeah! I wish. But I can’t learn to become an artist. Art has to come to me naturally. Isn’t it? You are right in saying that anything unnatural brings misery. But your philosophy of being natural to erase misery is too unnatural.
So what to do? Live in misery. Living in misery is natural. That’s life. Never attempt anything to erase the misery from life. Because it may add more!!!
4 comments:
As far as my understanding goes, the difference between the two philosophies can be approximately described as the difference between 'analysis' and 'synthesis'.
The very essence of philosophy is to explain things in terms of what we know - with our limited & confusing vocabulary and experiences. That the end result is even more confusing is not surprising.
Just keep in mind that all these are templates/paradigms into which we try to squeeze in the 'reality' that we 'see'.
I actually do live in Misery.
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