Friday, November 27, 2009

The Integrator and The Integrated

It might sound very ridiculous if I say that the root of all conflict lies in thought. To avoid such conflict we must see "What Is" rather than "What should be". That is to say one must take a fact based approach rather than an ideal based approach. A fact based approach looks at "What Is" with an objective eye, which is free from bias, from the past. A fact based approach doesnt get fixated on a specific method, a specific way of looking based on the past. A fact based approach simply looks at facts as they are and finds out how to deal with the facts as they are.

To understand and know about facts as they are it is necessary to develop a mindset which can look without any conditioning. The mind must be able to look at "what is" without the root of knowledge, experience and the past. It is not enough to think of integration. The very idea of integration brings about conflict because there are two fragments atleast in that thought. The integrator and that which is integrated. The integrator, who is one of the fragments says "I will observe the other fragments and I will unify them".

That is why it is necessary to remove the idea of the integrator, the center from which all thought originates. When we take a fact based approach, there is only what is observed. The observer is the observerd. The integrator is that which is integrated. When such a state of mind is achieved, then we can say that the mind is free and sensitive enough to look objectively towards facts as facts.

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