VThere is a soft red sand floor in front of my door. It is swept several times a week with a bundle of palm leaves and looks beautiful. I am still thinking about the same temple in Irumbai. Its history is becoming more and more complex, and so I am now immersing myself in tantra philosophy. I attended a workshop on this a few months ago. We learned a little meditation exercise, which I tried out again today: Choose two objects and look at them alternately, thinking the name of the object. Then look at each object in turn and think the name of the other object. And then look between the objects. I have varied this a little, rules are not my strong point.
So I was walking back and forth between my motorcycle and a bush in front of my door. There are 35 steps between them, and when I walked towards the motorcycle I thought "bush", and when I turned around, walking towards the bush, I thought "motorcycle". What happened? At first it seemed silly. Okay. Then I realized I can't think like that. Also okay. Then I realized that I can't see analytically like that. It slowly became interesting. Walking towards the bike and thinking "bush", I couldn't analyze what the bike was like, e.g. that it had two wheels or was blue. If I did that, I had to let go of the bush. So back to bush thinking and motorcycle vision. The motorcycle was clearly visible, but only as an object, the way it presented itself to me.
Of course, I now ask myself to what extent language determines thinking and perception. If the concept doesn't match the perception, we can't think any further. If I look at the space in between, there is no limit to my imagination. I can think about where I have been driving around and which bushes I have seen or about something completely different that my mind finds exciting.
But if I then approach the motorcycle again and think "motorcycle", I can let my analytical eye run free. I can identify, classify and compare wheels, frame, color, steering wheel, etc. at breakneck speed. What does all this tell me? First of all, I learn something about language, thinking, perception and how they are interlinked. Then I learn about movement in space, walking, physicality; I feel my feet and count the steps. I realize that I'm thirsty, I hear the birds... and then I realize that the world is probably a bit more complex than my little brain thinks.
I become more conscious (5 tattvas): my consciousness, my ego, my mind, my nature, my sensual thinking and then the outer (5) and inner (5) senses, my actions (5) the elements (5)... All this is systematized in the 25 tattvas. If I now add the 11 Tantra Tattvas (5 Shiva, 5 Shakti, and the world of illusion (1) to the 25 basic Tattvas, i.e. 36 Tattvas, then nature, Shiva, time and space etc. are added. So I'm getting a little deeper into Tantra. I will probably continue to walk up and down in front of my door and make my neighbor shake his head.
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Here is the Link to the Tantra Tattvas
Here to the Basic tatvas
