Sunday, November 18, 2007

Perspective

This post is inspired by this beautiful little post. So, it got me thinking about the window that every one is offered into everything that happens around them. The window is so deeply guided by their past knowledge and judgments that people at two different windows fight for their own correctness. But that leads me to think maybe "no judgments" concept is deeper than I thought. Maybe it is the solution to every problem in the world. But Judgments are so wired into the human psyche that people are enslaved by it. The Wachowski brothers made a lot of money depicting that little concept in art. Another depiction of that same concept is human addiction to soap. Soaps offer people instant judgments. You can think of it even as a gym for judgments. The kind people involuntarily love going to.

So, what would a non judgmental world be like? Super intellectual? yet Super boring. Judgments are pretty much the life blood of human interest. When you read that human interest story, those emotions that you run through - it probably keeps you alive. But it is also the source of all the problems in the world. I wonder why it is that way though. Why did humans evolve to find judgments to be a great source of fun? Fantasy is a basic human need. Judgment of a person is an evaluation in a fantasy world.

But then again, what is perspective but a fantasy? The Hindu philosophical concept of the Maya - the basis of everything in the world. That explains a lot. That invisible layer of clothing you wear without even knowing it most times. But no matter what, people get a whiff of it. And, only because at one teeny tiny moment at least in their life, they had gotten to be a part of another person's Maya. The basic human almost instantly extrapolates - Maya would offer everyone with their own perspective...true.

So, the question comes - if all is maya/fantasy and everything around you is their depiction in perspectives or judgments, what is real? how do you find it? I need to think ...but one thing is for sure, the more perspectives you look at, the more middle path follower you become...

Everything makes sense...everything.

To conclude, let me quote a little dialog in Jet Li's Fearless

- Mr. Huo, according to what you say, you really don't know the nature of tea.

It's not that I don't know. I don't really want to know because I don't care about evaluating teas. Tea is tea.


-But each tea has its own character and properties.....

What is the purpose of grading? These many teas are grown in nature, all of them.Is there a discernable difference?

-Yes, once you learn this, you can tell the difference between the teas.

What you say may be right, but the way I see it is, the tea doesn't judge itself. It's people that judge its grading. Different people choose different things. As for me, as far as I'm concerned, I just don't want to make any choice.