Jani's morning meditation

Jani sat down and made himself comfortable. The gentle sound of the nearby stream, which was located a short walk downhill, and to the left, unseen, behind some bushes, washed over him. He sat, content, concentrating on the cleansing sound. Suddenly, quail song (Ophrysia superciliosa), a shrill whistle, cut through the sruti note of the mountain stream, as the perpetrator fluttered quickly downhill to join the rest of his gang for the usual day's foraging. The quail flew downhill every morning to forage, in leisurely fashion, for seed and insects, while walking back up the hill to roost.

ekam jnanam nityam adyantashunyam
yad bhedo'sminn indriyopadhina

"jnana is one. It is eternal. It is without beginning or end.
That there is division in this world is because of the limitation of the senses."

Idea-I and paradoxical enlightenment

Idea-"I", the reader [and narrator], is a figment. The narrative of 'my' life never touches the truth of life. The narrative, no matter how accurate it appears to 'me', is a fiction. 'I' invent it, and re-invent it, at every given opportunity.

This persuasive myth, devoid of independent confirmation, is perpetuated by the aberrant use of thought. Cut off the steady stream of thought and the individual [idea-"I"] vanishes too.

Enlightenment, that illusive paradox, is the unbiased acceptance, and implementation, of this simple truth.

Common Sense

Common Sense - is innate. It is the birthright of one and all.

Decisions and acts, which operate from that basic innate state of common sense, without subjection to overlays of egotistic wants, are always right and proper. These decisions and acts are, without doubt, in tune with Nature. Where common sense holds court, greed has no place. The depths to which human society falls from grace is in direct proportion to the suppression of common sense.

Dominion over planet earth

Time is relative and the fact, that it is, is relevant.

Like a colony of short-lived parasites that sets up home in a tree, causing a wholesale destruction, which ultimately contributes to its own demise, human society has assumed dominion over planet earth, without due care and attention.

Like the tree, the earth will rejuvenate. The parasites will become no more than a distant memory echoed in fading scars until at last even these scars will disappear completely.

Humans, and their signs, will be no more.

The need to make an about turn in our attitude towards nature has nothing to do with religion. It has nothing to do with morality. It has nothing to do with any ethical concern. It has all to do with common sense.

This common sense goes way beyond "don't put your hand in the fire" or "don't play in the traffic".