To connect with the outside world we got our five main senses (watching, listening, smelling, tasting and touching). You
can see them as your salesmen. Without even asking them they bring you, wanted
or unwanted, information about the world around. Marketing (cultivating
desires) a lot of times in a tricky and 'creative' way make use of them.
We can use this five senses to be (more) aware of the so called ‘present moment’, the here and
now. And when you use your energy to be 100% present you can call that being mindful.
What I learned out of Buddhism is there are more than
this five senses everybody knows. If we see our manifestation
as ‘a company’ it makes it easier to explain and understand the three more
senses who actually are of great influence to the way we respond to our outside
world.
The sixth sense is our mind. You can see it as the General
Manager of our existence. The mind is always available for us to help us so
that nothing can go wrong. Without even knowing the mind is always present to
help us to stay safe and to survive in any situation where we and up.
The seventh sense is our Ego. The director(s) of our
company. There is nothing wrong with having an ego (sometimes it can be a sad experience to see how some people behave with their ego). Without an ego we cannot
even exist. Our ego helps us to be part of and connect as the one we are with
our environment and with other people.
Lots of people show up as different ‘directors’ in
different situations. Plenty of times their acting behavior is related to their
role or task. Often you hear that a person acts and reacts different at the
workplace then at home or being together with friends. This actually shows that
the ego is playing a game not to show who a person really is. You only have one personality but are able to show up in different situations in a different way by using your ego. So the person a lot of times is
only acting in relation to his/her role or circumstances he or she is in. Sometimes
I ask myself why people talk about a private life and a work life. Doesn’t both
have to do with living life? Why is it necessary to show up different or to act
as another person you really (authentic) are. Using our ego to express a higher
status to other people can be a disgusting show. Narcissists even use their ego
to fulfill their need for admiration to protect themselves against personal
fear in lack of self-esteem.
The eight sense (shown as the laptop in the picture on top) is formed by our stakeholders. They
formed our programming and are stored in our unconsciousness. The influences of our parents and ancestors, masters in
life, culture, environment, religion and life experiences. We learned to live
with it and they formed the base for our judging and labeling. Unaware we give
this things attention and everything you give attention grows. So automatically
we deal with this influences to scan all the situations we are in and to
connect with the outside world giving us an idea of what is good or what is
wrong (for us). Our eighth sense is helping us to judge and to label and so to form our truth. Not being open and willing to accept that your truth is true but the truth is much bigger than only your truth.
Many years I worked in a political environment. An environment of debate and convincing or at least trying to reach a compromise. But there is no compromise, there is only a bigger truth. It's very hard working, sometimes even a fight, to change your outside world to your expectations.
To feel more comfortable in the world around, it is not necessary to change the outside world. This can be a hard job to do with harmful effects.
Many years I worked in a political environment. An environment of debate and convincing or at least trying to reach a compromise. But there is no compromise, there is only a bigger truth. It's very hard working, sometimes even a fight, to change your outside world to your expectations.
To feel more comfortable in the world around, it is not necessary to change the outside world. This can be a hard job to do with harmful effects.
It’s easier to take the time to look deeply into the
situation we are in. To ask ourselves what is the source of not feeling
comfortable or connected. We will find this has a lot to do with our
programming, our eighth sense. We can ask ourselves if this source in programming is still
serving us in the situation we are in or, if not, if we can change or skip this
part of our programming. It’s much easier to change ourselves than our
environment.
Be aware we have a deeper connection with our outside world than you maybe ever thought.
Do not let your programming make yourself unwilling to discover your truth is true but the truth much bigger. What an enlightenment ;)!
Frans Captijn
Host / Catalyst / Talenteer at Captijn Insight
Captijn Insight: “Catalyst in your process to new sustainable flow in life and work. Whether you are an individual, couple, team or an organization.”
Be aware we have a deeper connection with our outside world than you maybe ever thought.
Do not let your programming make yourself unwilling to discover your truth is true but the truth much bigger. What an enlightenment ;)!
Frans Captijn
Host / Catalyst / Talenteer at Captijn Insight
Captijn Insight: “Catalyst in your process to new sustainable flow in life and work. Whether you are an individual, couple, team or an organization.”
No comments:
Post a Comment