Belief, faith, spirituality, religion are sort of Agriculture we do in our mind.
We seed, irrigate, remove weeds, apply pesticides, apply fertilizer to grow plants for our needs. In the same way, we or our society seed a belief and cultivate it for ever.
If we stop irrigate the belief, then it will die. If we don’t cultivate anything in our mind, then mind becomes a forest, anything will grow in it bush, trees, anything. They grow and sustain unplanned, and unprotected. If rains and weather favours, then forest thrives, else starves. There is no planned cultivation for forest.
Man eradicates forest and do agriculture in the forest land to support him. All agricultural lands were once forest. All concrete buildings were once agricultural land.
Man eradicates the natural mind and cultivates belief, faith, religion and philosophies in it. Natural mind or “forest mind” is no way helpful to complex social economic embroidery crafted infinitely among human life by humans. Every religion or belief or philosophy is not natural existence of human mind. They are planned and brought up. We have to constantly and consistently nurture the belief/religion/philosophy in us. Otherwise agriculture will die and mind will resilient to its “forest form”. We are frighten to be in the “forest”.
If you practice any religious activity, which means you cultivate something in your mind. If you recite… read your holy texts, then you strengthen your belief. You justify events in life to support and augment your belief. You constantly nurture your belief.
Man has come far away from forest and living in concrete buildings. Man has come far away from “forest mind” to “cultivated mind”. Man can not reverse now. We have caught the tail of the tiger. If we are ready to die, then we can release the tail of tiger, otherwise we have to hold the tail of the tiger.
If you are dare enough to go to forest, then you have to throw away all your believes, philosophies, religions.
An elephant feels itself as elephant, a lion feel itself as lion, a mosquito feels itself as mosquito. But some human invented philosophies don’t want man to feel himself as man. They prescribe ardent practices to remove his various human delusions and let him feel himself as a tiny object of universe, not as human being. Some goes further, and escape from universe too. Those philosophies mesmerise that escape from universe or feel as object of universe is “liberation”. “Liberation” is unnatural to humans. Liberation or enlightenment are human invented states. They are not natural.
Man’s quest for learn, practice, evolve into something…still driving him away from…
In the past, there were only forest land in earth, there was no agricultural land. Man removed forest from earth and started agriculture in the “acquired” land. In the past, there were no saving, stocking, and preservation in forest life. During agricultural life, man invented habits like saving, stocking and preserving. Like that man invented “mind disciplines” post forest era. Man is still evolving in his inventions in life in all the aspects… spirituality is one among many aspects that man is still inventing, evolving.
There were no exercise, gym, body building in the past. Later on they were invented and evolved by humans. Today we have body building competition around the world. The body structure, shapes, cuts we have due to exercise/gym is not natural. The shape we attain due to continues and consistent exercise, is human invention or evolved into something…. The same is applicable to meditation and it’s ecstasy/experience. Meditation is human invention or evolved into something… Meditation is not natural or not biological drive in human.
All believes are human invented, all religions are human cultivated. Spirituality is man made, nothing special, nothing divine. There is no divine. Man cultivates his mind, that’s it.
Man has two drives. One is biological drive. Another is intellectual drive. Intellectual drive is inventing, learning, practicing, and evolving into…? we don’t know where we are aheading.
We can not leave concrete buildings and go back to jungle. We can not stop cultivating mind and got back to “non-cultivation”.
I am tired of this continues and consistent mental agriculture.