Pre-word: An actual meditator is a constantly looking for soul and lives as a seer slightly than a preacher. An inside-out view is most well-liked primarily based on experiences slightly than an outside-in view, primarily based on borrowed data.
All of us have an intrinsic curiosity to find out about our roots, and their relation to the huge existential actuality through which we’re born, we stay, and we die. This curiosity transforms a being right into a seeker—one who intends to hunt the reality. Many nice seeker souls labored exhausting to discover their curiosity and attained “that means and realization.” On this means, a seeker grew to become a seer—one who sees the reality as it’s. The seers translated their experiences into languages understood by others, which helped different seekers in their very own seek for that means, and supplied motivation.
However, many extra beings with a mindset of a market projected this intrinsic curiosity as a well-defined “want,” and arranged paths within the type of organizations, cults, teams, and religions to satisfy it. In doing so, well-established maps had been formulated by the respective organizations with an outlined end-result. With a selected and identified end-result supplied by organizations, the seeker and seer framework acquired twisted into new varieties. The varieties had been additional reformed into varied varieties by the crafty blades of social blenders.
Curiosity grew to become a marketable want, a seeker grew to become a follower, and exploration grew to become navigation. Human beings are kind of conditioned with this transformation now. However on this change, the seer is missed out as one who sees the reality as it’s. As a substitute, a brand new function as a preacher is born, one who speaks as discovered. This mannequin is extra prevalent in right now’s society. Additionally, this kind of changing into or change opened alternatives for students, pundits, and orators who themselves will not be both seekers or seers however grew to become the perfect preachers of the navigation instruments. They’re accepted as a proxy for seers by the followers.
In fact, this contemporary working mannequin introduced a major change to being’s exploration efforts. Earlier the curious seeker used to discover the reality and have become a seer. The direct realization was of prime significance. Now, organizations organize the propaganda to create a necessity out there and make followers who navigate by means of organizational paths to changing into what’s unclear.
For instance, Gautama, the Buddha, was intrinsically curious to know the foundation explanation for human struggling. He grew to become a seeker and labored exhausting to discover human struggling and have become a seer and noticed the foundation explanation for struggling experientially, and its fact as i t is thought. Thereupon, he got here up with 4 noble truths about life and struggling and helped humanity. Whereas, within the second case, a being turns into a follower of established paths, enacts the reality as it’s informed to expertise a predefined and prompt finish consequence. The facility of suggestion and its obedience is valued greater than exploration.
Subsequently, in right now’s age, we should look at our efforts of self-reflection by means of the lenses of the 2 fashions. The true yardstick is our personal perspective, guiding your efforts for it.
Within the seeker-seer mannequin, the seeker has a excessive diploma of curiosity, sensitivity, receptivity, and self-discipline. He/she seeks readability primarily based on first-hand experiences than intellectualization; the truth is, theoretical manipulation is prevented. Thus, lives adventurous, cheap, and truthful to oneself. And, as a result of the seeker is himself or herself chargeable for practising the precise self-discipline, it’s simpler to eradicate the meaningless and pointless problems at a private degree and stay a easy, but profound life. The simplicity permits the seeker to focus vitality to develop his or her consciousness throughout an expertise within the current second. Thus, a wisdom-driven strategy is embraced. Lastly, a seer is found.
Quite the opposite, in a follower-navigation path mannequin, the follower strives to realize the given end-state targets; due to this fact, studying and dealing by the given strategies to develop into match to fill the outlined gaps is fascinating. The idea is that whether it is working for others, it ought to work for me. A follower’s religion and acceptability are valued greater than his or her individuality and reasoning. Rejection of pointless norms and rituals is tough for particular person followers as a result of it isn’t of their discretion. Furthermore, freedom is regulated. Nevertheless, a identified and arranged path provides extra safety and a social firm that might present for different social wants as properly, and this makes it handy and helpful. However this social facet of followership can lead followers into confused or conflicting conditions. For instance, in liberal societies, with so many competing and compelling paths, a follower will be confused about which one to decide on, whereas, in conservative societies, paths can battle with one another resulting in hatred. Spiritual intolerance just isn’t a hidden secret. In the end, social energy takes a central place as a result of organizations develop by means of followers and develop into energy facilities to affect and have interaction with different elements like nationwide, financial, and political pursuits. Ultimately, they might lose their authentic function for institution. The knowledge-driven strategy is embraced. Information turns into a type of a commodity of organized factories. Lastly, a follower is tailor-made.
Any sane and honest one who has curiosity would surprise about these working fashions.
Excerpt from the e book: O Beloved: Being, Changing into and Past, Chapter: Bodhi and Pilgrim’s caves
Creator: Shunya Pragya
