To the Buddhist, nature is samsara, the delusion of the senses, that hides our fundamental nature.
I think that we tend to be particularly all unaware that
we are thinking all the time . Our "nature"
is that we are thinking creatures,
and the incessant stream of thoughts
leave very little time
to be truely
free.
Nature is not illusion , just a background , but one
that also incessantly changes even if one lives
in some nice bucolic pastoral place.
Our actions are mostly driven usually without
being first undertaken in awareness , and driven
by those perfectly ordinary thoughts and impulses
that course thru our minds often like
a wild running river.
( the key is to learn to still the river )
One rarely sees throughout human history mankind
rising to any state of civilization and not finding
things in a tempest torrent-tossed agitated state
with flood after flood of calculated
conflicts , heated passions
or mass hysterias .
Like most of history , so it goes within our own lives,
almost everyone of us caught up in the torrential
happenings , that winds up submerging our lives .
It is in the torrents within our own minds that
this state of constant agitation
originates.
It is not that nature is an "illusion ' , but that
state of mind each of us all carry within ourselves
which to more or lessor degree projects that certain madness upon the world .
Though some of us have sweeter madnesses
than others...
....some of us are even
Forest Gumps !
;-)
Mars |
