Why nothing matters (nothing)

Why do you think something matters? After all, it is just your personal opinion. It may mean perfectly nothing to other people, nothing at all. An occurrence of something appearing to be meaningful to you is simply a manifestation of your own imagination, a reflection of your own mind. Mind, which does not exist per se; your mind which gives you a false sense of self which derives from all the evolutionary steps which led to Homo sapiens and from all the social programming you have been submitted since your birthday. You cannot even control it. You are so often lost in the narrative of your thoughts. Is not you who thinks them, it is your mind. When you go sleep you switch off your consciousness and you lose all the control you have thought to have; after awakening you hardly even remember your dreams. Something called “you” simply does not exist beyond temporary and fugitive moments.  In a sense, you are an illusion and equally illusionary your thoughts are and nothing matters. 

On the other hand, that sense of you is truly unique; it is all you have got and all you can experience in this very moment. You can make it wonderful, you can make it miserable – after all, it appears you have some choice – at least it is healthier to think in that way – so make your experience meaningful because you matter and what you think matter as well. After all, everything matters.

MG

Contemplating self

Interestingly enough we rarely contemplate certain conditions of our existence. The obvious reason:  we are mortal beings and we try to preserve ourselves. But we do not fear just death. We find uneasy confronting our very selves.

Have you ever thought about your own consciousness as an artificial, existing only in your own mind concept? Which has started emerging gradually when you were a small child? Which has been changing ever since?

Although we think we are who we are (whatever it means) we are different from whom we were a year, a month or a day ago. Who we are at any given moment depends from many factors including things like: where we are, with whom and what we are doing. Even what we have eaten matters.

That is a source of our loneliness – our idea of ourselves lives in our own minds and we are only able to share just a part of it with other people – often in a vague manner.

Often we are able to spot nervous attempts of our minds to do something, to think about something during meditation.

The phenomenon of experiencing our own existence is the source of our culture with all our myths and beliefs; it is a reason for our civilisation and is a source of our personal dramas.  

MG