In the previous article in this series, I explained how past learning affects your current ability to think and your future potential for growth. I showed that your perception is based upon prior teaching and that you can be trapped in a limited viewpoint if you fail to free your mind. I’m not talking about freeing your mind in the ‘new agey’ sense of the word, although it does tread a similar path. It’s up to you where you think I’m coming from, people who know me certainly wouldn’t lump me in the same class as the crystal healing, pyramid hat wearing, Orgonite cloud busting fellows. But that doesn’t mean we should write off some of the practices, there is some hardcore science beneath, once we remove the fluffy wrapping.
When I’m referring to freeing your mind, I’m simply suggesting that we should allow ourselves minimise the effect of past experiences, especially the negative emotions such as fear. Fear and other negative emotions are so pervasive in society today, although you may not be aware how widespread, and deeply ingrained, in our daily lives it is. Unless you recognise these emotions, and take steps to counter them, you will be permanently restricted by these memories, which then limits your comprehension of the possible. If you can only comprehend a certain reality, that is the reality you will perceive and unfortunately restricted to living.
Consider the expression being ‘One with the Universe’. The majority of people would think you as kooky if you uttered this down the pub, and being kooky in some establishments is not the best trait to put on display. However, the kooky individual, although, now in fear of his life from the other rocket fuelled (alcohol) patrons, is absolutely right. The mass populace, however, believe otherwise, due to their past programming, and cannot see (perceive) the understanding behind this phrase.
The current hypothesis (not a theory yet, theories are more concrete, although they do use the term theory in its name) is that everything in the universe is composed of vibrating strings of energy; this is known as String Theory. That is, everything, from the biggest star, to the smallest atom, if you reduce it down to its constituent parts, is composed of the same vibrating strings. It’s the combination and quantity of these parts that create the different objects.
The biggest illusion we trick ourselves into (and for good reason, it helps us navigate this world) is that we are separate from the Universe. We think that we are ‘in’ the Universe, yes you are, but you’re also made of the Universe. In fact, you are constantly exchanging energy with the Universe. The Universe flows through you. You are a localised concentration of the vibrational energy of the Universe. Sounds mad? Read on.
Who are you? It’s a simple question, but the answer is a lot more intriguing. You may think you are the same Mary Smith or Bob Saunders you always have been, and always will be. Obviously you have changed, from a baby, to an infant, to an adolescent to a fully grown adult, but that’s not what I’m getting at.
Every seven or so years, every single molecule of your body has been replaced with new molecules. I’m talking everything, from all of your bones and muscles down to your DNA. Every seven years, there is a human we like to call Mary or Bob, who looks and sounds the same, maybe a little more wrinkled, but nothing in their body is the same as it was seven years ago. So who is Mary or Bob? Who are you?
You are the information that has been passed on from one version of ‘you’ to the next. This opens up amazing possibilities, but I won’t get into that here. The information that is passed on can come in the form of a chemical such as calcium that the body has developed many uses for and will alter the expression of Bob or Mary usually in a good way. Or the information may come in another chemical form such as strychnine that would alter the expression of Bob or Mary in not such a good way, usually Death. Thoughts are also a form of information, that is passed on, not only from Bob to Bob, but as I’ll show in another article from Sue too, which also alters the expression of Bob.
Our task here is to realise that our potential for expression is governed by the inputs of various forms of information, be that for good or bad. We need a method for assisting our body to filter an excessive amount of negative memories, so that we are open to new possibilities. Luckily for us, those crazy monks in orange suits have given a way of doing just that. The method is Zen Buddhism. In the next article I’ll show you how we can use Zen Buddhism to our advantage, and also incorporate it into a 21st century life.
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