The Final Frontier…

 

There is a philosophically interesting episode in the original Star Trek series, where a scouting party goes down to a planet looking for a place for the crew to rest after a difficult mission. They quickly discover that what ever they are thinking about becomes their experience — both the good and the bad. They become totally confused. To stop the chaos from unfolding, Captain Kirk orders the scouting party to, “stand at attention, don’t think, just be at attention”. Just then a being shows up and informs them that this planet was created by their race as a kind-of amusement park, where they could simply imagine anything they want and experience it.

In a similar way, our thoughts; the conscious ones — but to a much larger extent, our ‘unconscious’ and semi-conscious, habitual thoughts manifest as our personal reality. And our experience is drawn-out over time (and maybe playing out over lifetimes) as the mind generates a past, present and future. Sadly, for much of humanity, we see generations of repeated suffering as people are constrained by the deep mental wiring and beliefs of a hard life.

While there is big mystery to humanity’s unfoldment, those of us who are fortunate to live in relative safety, security and freedom have the opportunity to shape our experience to a fair degree.

It is my wish and prayer that all beings come to recognize the value of stopping the momentum of the mind and consciously focus attention on the field of living silence again and again so that one can shape one’s experience with harmony as the foundation.