The truth lies in not seeking for answers all the time.
There are no answers in clear black and white or cast in iron. We need to learn
to live in a world with no absolute truth and answers. Existence is a series of
relative truths or untruths with ambiguities and no clear answers. The truth is
always out there. Zen like it can come to you in a flash or you will never
attain it even if you try for 1000 years. This takes me to my axioms for life
which have guided me for the past 45 years:
- Nothing Is Absolute..
- Everything Is Relative..
- Nothing Is Real..
- Nothing Really Matters...
Today we are faced with a world which is full of
contradictions and relative truths which have evolved dialectically. Sometimes or
rather most of the times its difficult to say what is right and what is wrong. Wherever
and whichever way you look it’s the same story. If one is truly objective it is
difficult to take sides. Like the series of US forays into various parts of the
globe to uphold freedom. It’s almost don quixotic at times flaying away at
invisible windmills like the weapons of mass destruction of Saddam Hussein. But
a lot of other plots are so very complex that it’s difficult to really blame
any side. Sometimes too many of us with our ingrained roots in English tend to
adopt a jaundiced Anglo Saxon view of the world though not consciously while also
maintaining a skeptical view of the western world.
However much we try to intellectualize exploitation and anti
middle east stance of US, still it’s very difficult to rationalize the rabid role of the ISIS. Even with
lot of deconstruction and determination it might well nigh be difficult to support
the call for Caliphate. Definitely the call is medieval. Sometimes I get the
sneaking suspicion that perhaps the Islamic way of life at a simple level is
indeed a green way of existence as compared with the energy intensive west.
It is indeed a meaningless world and existence in the final
analysis. In our ontological insecurity we all love to adopt some totems or
lodestars to guide us thru the painful journey through existence where death is
the final savior and provides Mukti from terrestrial bondage. Sartori.
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