Why do our actions sometimes lead to exactly the opposite results? What to do with situations in which we are powerless to change anything? What to do with “problem” people on whom we depend? Surely everyone has asked themselves these questions at least once. They all share a common premise: we place the problem outside of us. Moreover, even believing in the creative power of thought, we believe that our thought should create something for us in the outside world, somehow influence other people and material objects, attract money to us. Implying that all this is separate from us. The world is a projection of Consciousness
I invite you to consider another concept: the whole world is a projection of our own consciousness. There is nothing outside that is not part of me. This means that the object that I am trying to influence is also not in the external world, it is inside me, part of my consciousness.
This idea has nothing to do with egocentrism, as it might seem at first glance. A self-centered person places his ego, or personality, at the center of the universe. And here - we expand our consciousness so as to place the whole world in it. This implies total responsibility for everything that happens.
For example, you have a problem with your boss at work. The boss, in the image in which he appears to you (angry, arrogant, unfair, etc.) is a creation of your own consciousness. It is a mistake in your mind, a software glitch, or a bug that can be fixed. It is useless to try to influence a person as an individual, since his personality is your illusion. It's an optical illusion in a 3D movie where monsters seem to fly right in front of your face and you can grab them by reaching out with your hand. In fact, their source in the form of program codes is located in the computer with which the film is shown.
A virtual reality
Now imagine that a person wanted to watch a nice and relaxing movie, but as a result of a software glitch or a computer virus, something went wrong and the harmless characters in the movie turned into scary monsters (of course, it would have to be a very smart virus to do that! And yet...let’s imagine). Let us also assume that the viewer forgot that he was in a movie and began to accept everything that was happening as reality. Will it help him fight virtual enemies? Of course no. The only way out is to correct the program code (we will not consider the option of leaving the cinema, unless, of course, we want to prematurely end our life-film).
This is how we fight virtual “monsters” in our virtual world, which we consider real, not suspecting that the reason is in the program code (in our minds). These monsters can take many forms (boss, neighbor, spouse, government), but the cause is the same. Therefore, as a rule, people are not helped to solve the problem only on the external plane: if they find another job, the new boss is even worse than the previous one; got married a third time - the same story repeated itself as with the previous two; invested money in a new project - went broke again, etc.
Antivirus for consciousness
So the first step is to become aware, i.e. to understand that monsters are not real and only exist in our own minds. This will reduce fear, allow you to think constructively, and most importantly, allow you to take responsibility for everything that surrounds us. Sometimes just this awareness is enough, and the problem disappears on its own.
The second step is to fix the software glitch. Any method is suitable for this: meditation, visualization, yoga, transsurfing, sending love, prayer, breathing practices, etc. The main thing is that you use it precisely as correcting an error in your own consciousness, and not as an impact on a problem that is outside of you . If you approach it with this intention, then you can take any method, and it will work, because you are the one who puts meaning into it. In this case, the method plays the role of a tool (software debugger or antivirus) that will correct the error.
Everyone is the creator of their own film
We have an important advantage over the passive viewer in the cinema: we create our film ourselves. Each of us is a spectator, director, actor and programmer rolled into one. We are not a victim of someone’s sick imagination that came up with such a horror scenario for us. There is no one who would write us a thriller and make us live it. At any moment we can change our minds and change the course of events, characters, etc. Yes, this does not always work out right away, since “viruses” in the form of harmful thoughts, patterns and beliefs are firmly seated in our minds. But we just need to take responsibility, and we will no longer react to problems in the same way. And gradually we will stop creating them, and then they will completely disappear from our lives.
Projections of consciousness
Excerpt from a book
"BEING AS A MOMENT OF TRUTH"
Igor Satorin
We can endow events and people only with those qualities that live within us; we project our own thoughts onto everything that surrounds us. Enlightened people, being absolutely pure, see reality in its true form, their consciousness is free from identification with thoughts and feelings.
Everyone sees the world only as each person is. Our reality is a reflection of ourselves. This is our whole “I”. Not a single event could have happened differently, everything was as it should be, and what seemed a deviation from the path or meaninglessness was also a necessary experience. There is nothing bad outside, nothing annoying, nothing important, nothing scary. These are our qualities that we project onto the outside world, onto people. This is our karma.
Any judgments in this context, paradoxically, are erroneous, since all thoughts and feelings are divided into good and bad. And reality is neutral, pure, ideal. Any partial knowledge leads away from the absolute, limits us, and creates the illusion of awareness. As the sages say, “only an empty vessel will be filled,” or in this context, “ignorance is bliss.”
Meditation, as a process beyond the thoughts and feelings with which we are identified, brings us closer to reality.
Various kinds of doubts may arise, for example, that this is only the internal side of the issue, the “ideal”, something to which one can strive, but we live in a chaotic material world, and we cannot hide from everyday worries. Selfishness of others, illness, unemployment, etc. still exist.
But the point is that the “ideal” side described at the beginning of the chapter is not something we should strive for, but something that already truly exists at the moment. We simply cannot see this due to our limited view of reality here and now, conditioned by our thoughts. Awareness of this fact can give a lot. Moreover, this should be understood constantly, every time something comes up - be it a “bad” person or a difficult situation. This can also be called a kind of installations, or programs, thanks to which you can get closer to your essence. The realization that your reaction is determined only by your internal data, at the beginning of the journey, can at least give you peace of mind in the sense that difficult situations will no longer seem unfair. That is, you will always know that you never suffered in vain, since any suffering comes from within, it is karma that had to be worked out in order to continue further advancement. Even in such ordinary situations as riding a bus or standing in line, you need to realize that the event itself is deeply secondary.
What matters is what this event activates within you, what karma is triggered and how you react. Do you simply allow this karma to come out, skipping all thoughts and not developing it, or do you savor the anger or resentment, generating new karma. Pleasant events in this context are a waste of good karma. From birth, rich people who live to their fullest simply waste the merit accumulated in previous births.
The selfishness of people around us, illness, unemployment and other problems arise only so that we understand the basic principles of the work of consciousness. If we ourselves see that the world around us is our own reflection, reality will be more favorable to us. Don't take it on faith, you just have to try it.
Doubts may also arise that it is man who fills this complex, material reality, since there are people who, it would seem, are beaten by life regardless of their attitude. But for some reason there is a word “maya”, which denotes the illusion of our current perception of the world. Much later, this same person will still understand that it was not life that beat him, but he beat himself. Consciousness expands and understanding comes. Why was Buddha a hermit? From the point of view of the average person, he was a beggar, but he was enlightened.
Matter is secondary. She, as already noted, is only a conductor of those sensations that live in us and the whole point is to get rid of this dependence.
Attachment to suffering and pleasure is our karma. Perception and karma are things from different categories, but inextricably linked, like everything else.
In fact, there seem to be no difficulties. The mind builds them, and we identify with thoughts, believing that this is reality. It is very important here not to get confused and to be open to new information, because often in verbal form everything depends on the context and breadth of view of the reader.
It's not so much about rejecting complexity as it is about trying to understand. We cannot abandon difficulties, but we can understand their nature, then all internal contradictions will begin to be resolved.
Our higher self is ideal, but the mind with which it is identified is attached to pain, to suffering. Each phenomenon should be adjusted to the axiom that all emotional and mental reactions come not from the outside, but from within, this is not the sense of self-importance of those people who humiliate you, but your sense of self-importance, which you project onto others, connecting it with the outside world, events and people. All your reactions arise in your mind. It’s not A. who is a bad person, but your perception of A. as a bad person, and you torment yourself with this: “How hard it is! Even A. turned out to be a bad person!” This very “bad person” lives in you, and not in A. This is your karma.
Of course, energy exchange is possible. Like attracts like. But if you have outlived, for example, envy, then other people's envy will not affect you.
This kind of non-identified view allows unnecessary experiences to come out. These things can and should be thought about, developed, associated with any situations, and introspected.
It is even better to combine self-analysis whenever possible with meditation techniques, which will be discussed in the following chapters. Meditation is contemplation, an attentive, dispassionate gaze.
At first it will be even harder, stress will set in, and the conscience that Gurdjieff spoke about will open. Understanding does not come immediately, but it comes. And this is much better than just suffering, blaming everything around for your troubles. In society, people face the same problems dozens of times, as if they are hitting a wall. What is lacking is understanding. The information in this installation chapter can provide it.
Doubts may also arise about how our consciousness could create a bad person out of A., because it is A. who is so bad, and it is in our will not to pay attention to him or to screw ourselves up by going deeper into the problem and earn stress. But for some reason Yeshua (the prototype of Christ in Bulgakov’s book “The Master and Margarita”) called everyone good people, and he was sincere. For him there were no bad people; he was free from such labels. We build our own reality. These are our organs of perception and evaluation, our thoughts. Suppose A. got angry, and you did not consider him a bad person, but simply understood that he could not do otherwise, that now he needs to shout, yes - this is his karma, now he perceives reality this way. That's how you perceived it. Another person, being also a friend of the angry person, may consider A. to be a bad person due to lack of understanding of what is happening.
You can understand that everything is a part of you. This is not some kind of philosophical concept, but a real sensation experienced when the flow of thoughts that there are “others” is suspended. At the same time, you should not be afraid of a lifeless, “vegetable” state. On the contrary, life will only truly begin after the mind calms down and we have the opportunity to look at reality with a clear gaze without any judgments or evaluations.
Projection in classical psychoanalysis is the attribution of one’s own experiences to external reality. However, this term came to my mind even before I began studying to become a psychologist. Studying my own consciousness, I came to the understanding that the life happening to me is illusory. And the essence of this illusion is that all my thoughts and sensations are just my thoughts and sensations. In this spectrum, all life is simply in our consciousness. This is not a metaphor, it is a fact. I will try to prove this as much as possible.
In psychology, projection is understood as some individual “inadequate”, suppressed experiences and defense mechanisms. However, I dare to say that all life that happens to us, everything that seems external to us is the work of our mind. All this is a projection of our experiences onto the outside world. We can endow events and people only with those qualities that live within us. Everything that surrounds us is just a projection of our mind, our thoughts and states. This is what is called karma in Hinduism. Everyone has their own projections - that is, everyone has their own karma, which a person attributes to “external reality”. And external reality itself is rightfully put in quotes here.
"There is no such thing as a spoon"
© Matrix
Everyone sees the world only as each person is. Our reality is a reflection of our gut. This is our whole “I”. In the outside world, there is objectively nothing bad, nothing annoying, nothing important, nothing frightening. All these are simply assessments of our individual mind, our personal qualities, which we project onto the outside world, onto people, just as a film is projected onto a white screen. Everything that happens to us is our work.
In Buddhism they say that everyone has their own karma, and each person finds himself in conditions of corresponding information in his mind.
All judgments are illusory. And the theory of projections is no exception. All thoughts and feelings are divided into good and bad. All these are assessments of our dual mind. Beyond the mind, life is neutral, pure, ideal; beyond the mind, life is a white screen, pure nirvana. On progressmman.ru, an article about higher education is devoted to this topic.
Any private knowledge is an illusion, a deviation from the absolute truth outside the mind. Clinging to particular concepts (like the one I am promoting here) is limiting and creates the illusion of awareness. The very feeling of being informed, of being in the center of events is a mind game. True awareness is the vision that all concepts are not events, but projections, experiences, sensations against the background of your consciousness.
By exposing gross concepts, we move towards more subtle ones. This is a normal process, this is the development of consciousness. It’s just that at some point you stop running through the floors of refined concepts. You stop taking your own mind seriously. You realize that your usual life is your projection onto the unknown. And only then do you become the master of yourself, and tons of internal discourse dissolve against the background of pure consciousness. The only thing that remains is clarity and a clear understanding of what you need. All decisions become real and lead to real actions.
As the sages say, “only an empty vessel will be filled,” or in this context, “ignorance is bliss.”
How the process of moving beyond the thoughts and feelings with which we are identified brings us closer to reality. Consciousness in its pure form does not depend on thoughts, but on the contrary, thoughts themselves (projections) are the content and form of consciousness. If you look at an object, like a spoon, and you don't have any thoughts at all, then where will the spoon come from? There is no spoon! The spoon is the shape of your mind, your projection. A spoon is a combination of letters that express a thought. Without this thought there is something, and it is indescribable, without forms and without qualities.
Various kinds of doubts may arise, for example, that this is only the internal side of the issue, the “ideal”, something that “one can strive for,” but we live in a chaotic material world, and we cannot hide from everyday worries. The selfishness of others, illness, crisis, unemployment still exist. But the point is that the so-called “ideal” side is not something we should strive for, but something that already truly exists at the moment. If you have never seen a spoon in your life, you will not be able to see it. Even when they show it to you, it will be just some unknown object - and only if your mind is trained to think that objects exist. “Crisis” is in our heads. It's just a way of perceiving the world.
The warrior peered at the beautiful flowers , and they spoke to him...
The bud is beautiful, the blossoming flower is beautiful, the very moment of its opening is beautiful, the moment when the fallen petals take off on their first and last flight is beautiful... All flowers are perfection itself... They enchant with their fleeting but perfect Beauty, its contemplation gives birth to different thoughts in the heart... moments of deepest emotion...
The warrior peered at the beautiful flowers and thought about the fate of man in this world.
“We are all born beautiful, filled with vitality, like cherry blossoms. Just like her, we rejoice in the sun and strive to live, there is no end to strength, and life is like a clear spring day.
But youth disappears, darkness and fog come from nowhere. And now the piercing cold wind of old age is howling, plucking the last leaves from the tree of life...
Such is the tragic fate of man. Over time, everything ages, falls into decay, collapses, like an old abandoned house in the forest... Fate inexorably tries to destroy the human heart...
Why does this happen to a person?"
The unbearable beauty of flowers and the sadness of a person pierced the Warrior’s heart like a red-hot arrow...
The flowers gave the answer, illuminating the Warrior’s consciousness with the Revelation of the Great Faith of the Gods and Heroes.
“Sakura is reborn again and again, setting an example of eternal Rebirth. Any phenomenon is an expression of the state of consciousness that gives rise to it.
Consciousness is Buddha.
The visible world is a projection of consciousness. Sakura is what she is. And people become extensions of their thoughts, their thoughts shape their reality.
Become a Hero! Step over the threshold of the future!
There is no place for weakness and fading in the heart of the Hero, he is forever young, because he professes the Heroic Faith, lives by It, and It opens the Gates of the Highest Reality for him.
Be beautiful like cherry blossoms, live like her: pure and noble, live for the sake of Beauty, Courage...
Rejoice in Life, like cherry blossoms, which bloom all at once, without fear of the cold, sometimes bloom for only a few hours, and then fall off without any regrets. Try, like these beautiful and brave flowers, to find a heroic and sublime death, because there is nothing more beautiful than to live and die for the sake of your ideal, for the sake of loyalty to your Dream...
The human world is a test of the illusion of death and decay. People are weak and have little faith. Only Heroes know in their spirit that such death is the Gate to the Immortal...
Since ancient times, people have believed that the souls of Warriors live in cherry blossoms. Sakura is the Warrior’s Dream, it embodies the aesthetic and philosophical meaning of his entire life and death, his moral Ideal. Perhaps many will say that such a concept is incompatible with life...
But is life in itself so important?..”
The warrior was deep in thought about something...
In a person’s life there are rare moments filled with the highest meaning, when the cycle of events, the flow of time stop, everything unimportant disappears, and the very meaning of Existence is suddenly revealed to the soul. The moment of Illumination, Enlightenment comes. Life can then go on as usual, but the person has become different...
The warrior watched as the cherry blossom petals, barely drawn by gravity, slowly fell to the black ground...
There were thousands of them... Pure shining cherry petals covered the earth with the thinnest precious linen.
This was true Beauty...
Field of his Dreams.
George Berkeley. Transformed materialistic sensationalism into idealistic. His idea is that the world is immaterial and subjective. Hume put forward the idea that the world is unknowable, idealistic (he rejected the basic ideas of materialistic sensationalism). Berkeley interpreted Locke's ideas in his own way:
rejected the presence of abstract general concepts (everything that exists is singular; the general cannot be identified, since all the qualities in objects are merged together);
theory of representational thinking: any general idea is actually represented by something individual (h-k cannot have a general concept of a triangle, he can only represent a specific triangle). The goal is to expel from f-and abstract concepts that have nothing behind them. The most unnecessary concept is matter. Berkeley believed that there is no external experience, only internal experience. Consciousness is autonomous and does not need the outside world. The outside world is a projection of h-ka’s consciousness.
All qualities of things are secondary, i.e. are subjective and depend on the person’s consciousness. Any object exists not objectively, but only in our perception. An object is a combination of ideas of our consciousness. If ideas disappear, the object will disappear. The existence of an object in itself and its existence in our perception are one and the same. “To exist is to be perceived.”
D.Hum. did not deny the existence of an external objective world, but believed that this world was unknowable. Nature keeps ch-ka at a respectful distance from her secrets. Ch-k perceives the world through sensations and is accustomed to trusting them. However, this is a mistake. World - feeling - b-k. Ch-k is connected with the world not directly, but through sensations. Sensation may incorrectly reflect the world, but a person knows the world only through sensations. So h-k can be wrong. There is, as it were, a wall of sensations around the h-ka. Ch-k cannot overcome this barrier; he is always limited by sensations. Since sensations are inadequate to the world, the world is unknowable.
I was skeptical about the cognitive abilities of the human organs. Its principle is agnosticism.
11. Epistemology and Kant’s ethos
K. carries out a kind of revolution in philosophy, considering cognition as an activity proceeding according to its own laws. For the first time, it is not the character and structure of the cognizable substance, but the specificity of the cognizing subject that is considered as the main factor that determines the method of cognition and constructs the object of knowledge. Unlike the philosophers of the 17th century, K. analyzes the structure of the subject not in order to reveal the sources of error, but, on the contrary, to resolve the question of what true knowledge is. K. has a problem. the task is to establish the difference between subjects. and vol. e-tov knowledge, based on the subject itself and its structure. In the subject himself, K. distinguishes 2 layers - empirical. and transcendental. To empirical. he refers to individual-psychological. human characteristics, to the transcendental. - universal definitions that make up the belonging of the h-ka as such. Objectivity of knowledge, acc. K., is determined by the structure of the transcendental subject, which is a supra-individual beginning in the human being.
That. K. puts epistemology in place of ontology. Arguing that the subject knows only what he himself creates, K. makes a distinction between the world of phenomena and the unknowable world of “things in themselves.” The world of experience as a whole is only relative, it exists by grace. classified as transcendental. subject. There is a relationship between “things in themselves” and phenomena. cause and effect: without “things in themselves” there cannot be phenomena.
The will allows a person to determine his actions by universal objects (goals of the mind), therefore K. is called. her practical mind. K. calls human will autonomous (self-legitimate). The autonomy of the will consists in the fact that it is determined not by external causes, be it natural necessity or even the divine will, but by the law that it puts above itself, recognizing it as supreme, i.e. will exclude. internal law of reason. Man is an inhabitant of two worlds: the sensually perceived, the cat. he, as a sensible being, is subject to the laws of nature and the intelligible, where he freely subordinates himself to the law of reason, i.e. moral law. The principle of the natural world says: no phenomenon can be the cause of itself, it always has its cause in something else. The principle of the world of freedom says: a rational being is an end in itself, it cannot be treated only as a means for something else. Precisely because he is a goal, he cannot act as a freedom. efficient cause, i.e. free will. The intelligible world of K. is thus. thinks as a totality of intelligent beings as Things in Theirselves, as a world of purposeful causes, self-existent autonomous monads. Man, as a being endowed with reason, a thinking being, and not just a feeling one, is, according to K., a thing in itself. “Knowledge” of the intelligible world, which opens up to practical reason, is a special kind of knowledge-call, knowledge-demand, addressed to us and determining our actions. It comes down to the content of the highest moral law, categorical imperative“Act in such a way that the maxim of your will can at the same time have the force of a principle of universal legislation.”
