Friday, March 7, 2008
what stops me from thinking?
sometimes, thinking, about your work, or life or the next big blockbuster book that youare going to write seems so difficult. i just wish i didn't have to think. just to keep things simple and uncomplicated. but without thinking, as Descartes would agree, we are nothing. That i swhat the West would want us to believe. But if you read the Bhagavad Gita carefully, it places more emphasis on action. do, it says. without thinking of the rewards that will accrue, or the pitfalls. this is harder. the West may have won this round. it is far easier to think, anticipating all the goodies at the end of the rainbow than just do. which explains why i haven't written a single word of my story for my magazine all these days, preferring to think about how to write it. all the while i have lost the doability quotient to the thinkability one. at what point does the thinking stop being something that we do to something that we think, in purely abstract terms? if you agree that thinking is a form of doing, but without the sweat to show for it, then obviously i have not been wasting time as my guilty mind is wont to accuse me of every now and then. but then, if the thinking doesn't lead to tangible results (ha, here lies my aha moment) then what is the use of thinking? now i know. thinking, as a form of doing, should also be freed of the results conundrum. only then will thought and action flow into a seamless fluidity worthy of any Zen precept. aha!
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