CHAPTER 2
The Ultimate Treasure Within
There is this important aspect of objective and logical examination and assessment of our contemporary information landscape, which we all are faced with and live in. This is the information landscape of external milieus; the societies, cultures, politics, economy and lifestyles, etc. This shall facilitate the subsequent corollary of ascertainment of how well we can align with this ‘external’ information landscape and what shall ideally be our association with different dimensions of the information. This is a tough thing to do as we all know reality is very subjective and it is hugely difficult to arrive at an objective and singularly logical conclusion about reality. Still, we shall do it but later. Objectivity is desirable but we can also work on subjective preferences and still be logical about it! We shall do it but later. What we intend to do now is deliberate about information landscape of reality within us; our consciousness and cognition.
We have hypothesized that everything is Information. All realities are information. We as living entities are also bundle of information. Our consciousness and cognition are also emergent entities of complex information processing by massive brain plexus. It is therefore hugely important to first unravel and understand the Self or ‘I’. The primary and ultimate journeying is of this Internal Information Landscape, within us. And, as we have deliberated above, the journeying of a landscape requires us to accept the information in its holism. All troubles emanate out of our partial and restricted journeying into reality.
As we have initiated this journey with questions to unravel the landscape, we need to ask again, ‘What defines this internal information landscape?’ or, we can put the question in another perspective by asking, ‘What we should look at while journeying this internal information landscape?’
We need to understand that there is a bit of uniqueness in internal information landscape, as compared to the external one. Both landscapes have commonalities but our internal information landscape has something unusual, which makes it exceptional and exemplary. The external information landscape has loads of informations and as all informations are linked and associational, there is a constant and ever-evolving interaction between different informations as well as different dimensions of informations. So, the external one has information and causal interactions.
The internal information landscape also has information and causal interactions between informations and their dimensions. What is unique and exclusive about the internal information landscape is that this landscape is also a media of information. This means, we as humans are not only package or bundle of information but also the receiver and dispenser of information. This we usually do with the help of languages we speak and write. The external milieu also has media but these media are either humans themselves or humanly created ones. Only humans are the active and direct media of information processing. This happens as we have complex and very potent brain states, incomparable to any other species on earth.
Therefore, when we talk about journeying the internal information landscape, we need to factor in this exclusiveness of this landscape. There is this unique but hugely confusing dualism about internal information landscape of consciousness. The human brain is a receiver of information and it then engenders the emergent information plexus of consciousness, which acts as the media between external and internal information landscapes. Consciousness acts as the two-way bridge between the two landscapes. Consciousness as a bridge is information itself, which creates its landscape in terms of cognition. Consciousness as a media, journeys into the external information landscape, receives informations from external milieus, examines them, shades them and transforms them into its own cognitive landscape. This consciousness as a media also uploads and dispenses information into the external information landscapes of society, cultures, politics, economy, faith-believe systems, lifestyles etc. This dualism is beautifully explained in the saying, ‘You are in your perspectives and your perspectives are in you’. This dualism is a major wellness tool for humanity but at the same time, it is also a massive agent of calamitous probabilities. This media of consciousness is a warrior but with precarious attitudes!
Everything finally boils down to how this media of consciousness journeys the two landscapes and how it aligns with these informations and their dimensions. As we have talked earlier, we shall deliberate on external information landscape later as it is of larger and deeper relevance to first unravel and understand the internal information landscape. We shall now journey into this internal information landscape and examine it in its holism; taking stock of every little detail and assessing probabilities of different associational connect with diverse dimensions of internal information.
As we said earlier, reality can be approached from different dimensions, perspectives and approaches. The information approach is probably the most powerful as well as the simplest one for better understanding. However, philosophy and spiritualism have been doing this enterprise, which we are calling ‘Journeying into internal information landscape’, since thousands of years. Information perspective is just a metaphor for unraveling reality. The ancient and modern philosophies as well as spiritualism have been doing it since over 3000 years, using different metaphors. Modern science has only facilitated the unraveling and understanding of reality with the help of objective, logical and measurable information. Science also does it with the help of metaphors, which may be different from philosophies and spiritualism but they all lead us to unravel and understand the reality, especially the reality of consciousness and cognition.
Contemporary humanity is very blessed that the common and cumulative knowledge of philosophy, spiritualism and science has placed us in a very facilitative situation to unravel the mysticism of self, ‘I’, consciousness and cognition. We also have sound knowledge of the emergent interactional causalities between the two information landscapes. Our contemporary scientific knowledge of consciousness, cognition and causalities stand us to journey into all information landscapes in their holism and entirety. We are also well off to understand our own subjectivity and also objectively examine our probable optimal alignment with information and their dimensions. This is the domain we are journeying here.
The contemporary knowledge of 3Cs – Consciousness, Cognition and Causality leads us to understand and accept us and our life-living realities better than ever before. We need to align ourselves with this scientific, objective and logical package of information to unravel all realities and align with them beneficially. This is what we intent to do here.
From our discussions so far, we have hypothesized that I and you are information as well as a media and what we are faced with all throughout our life-living is information. Our body-mind mechanism-process is also a bundle of information and as brain processing the information engenders the consciousness, it works as media journeying into the landscapes of information landscapes within and outside. This consciousness as a media is for most practical purposes the witness, observer, absorber, examiner, creator and collaborator of all realities. Reality is just neutral information in its macrocosm and holism but what essentially presents to you as life-living reality is because of your media of consciousness aligning or siding with information and its dimensions in certain and definitive ways. Therefore, what reality you face and what destinies these realities line up for you is largely the function of your consciousness.
This consciousness is a trouble tool because of its dualistic nature, even when as a powerful media, the consciousness is a potential of infinite possibilities. This consciousness is in you and you are in your consciousness. That is why this dualism creates most troubles for us. There is always this confusion about the agency of action and behavior. If you act and behave in a certain way, you are always confused who decided this? Was it your consciousness or was it you yourself? But as you are in your consciousness and your consciousness is in you; you are always conflicted. Probably, there cannot be a segregation of you and your consciousness as both are just different dimensions of you. Both are information bundles – you are a package of information and your consciousness is an emergent bundle of processed information. It is for this reason that it has always been advised by philosophy, spiritualism as well as modern science that you must always focus inside you. You must need to extensively journey inside the internal information landscape. You must be the genius of the internal information. It is probably the only wisdom you think of as whatever presents itself as realities to you is ultimately also information, with which you and your consciousness aligns in a certain ways. That is why first and ultimate attainment and success for you is to journey, unravel and understand the entities, elements, dimensions and constituents of internal information landscape.
This metaphor of journeying internal information landscape is termed in linguistic terminology as Looking Within and finding the true and real treasures of joy, satisfaction, utility and worth, inside your own body and mind domains. Nothing outside have any meaning, utility and worth. All worth and utility are within you and your own information bundle. What you accept as success and attainments have seeds, soils and nurturing elements all within your consciousness. Everything is within this cyclicality of you being in your consciousness and your consciousness being in you. Very naturally, you get to journey yourself first. If you don’t, you are never ever aware of the true and real treasures of utility and worthiness.
Looking within and familiarizing yourself with your own information landscape is primary wisdom. As you journey deep, wide and long inside your internal information landscape, you familiarize yourself with different dimensions of information within you and this shall in turn help you fruitfully and beneficially align with external information landscape and its dimensions for optimal life-living wellness.
As we have talked earlier, it is your consciousness, which assigns values of good-bad, right-wrong, utility-futility, success-failures, etc as information in its entirety, holism and macrocosm is value-neutral. It is this ‘assignment’, which we are referring to, when we use the metaphor of ‘aligning with information and its dimensions’. It is therefore very natural that you unravel and understand the ‘causalities’, which assigns and aligns. You need to accept that it is essentially your personal, subjective, egoistic and self-validating perspective and cognition, which generally ‘causes’ you and your consciousness to align with only the ‘part’ information – both within your internal landscape as well as the external information landscape. When you unlearn this egoism, subjectivity, self-validation propensity and reactionary interaction with information; you and your consciousness shall become eligible for aligning itself with holism and entirety of information. This shall make you truly and really a free person to unravel and understand the value-neutrality of all realisms. This is the portal, which opens up the probabilities of journeying into information landscape as an unattached, unbiased and non-dualistic observer, witness, absorber and judge. You shall then align with information and its dimensions with this singular and objective associational string of value-neutrality. This in turn shall unleash the very powerful, hugely satisfying, unfettered and infinite interactions with information; both within and outside.
If this whole idea is to be presented and understood with the help of a facilitative metaphor, you can accept that it is very much like just being an outside witness of all goods and all bads, all rights and all wrongs all utilities and all futilities but still not being part of anything. You just witness, observe, imbibe and interact but never become one. You are neither aligned with good, nor bad, neither right nor wrong, neither success nor failure. You just witness them and relate with information and never ever become anything. Your own information landscape is then unattached and free from the insinuations of egoistic and self-validating value-judgment. Your consciousness and you are not burdened by the load of unsettling and vitiating ‘causalities’, which the external information constantly dumps on you. You are neither happy nor sad, you are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied; you are neither successful nor failed. You are just you – a witness of everything but part of nothing. You are everywhere but not in anything. This situation shall free you and your consciousness from this dualism of ‘you being in your consciousness-cognition and your consciousness-cognition being in you’. You are free from this burden of cyclicality of causalities. You are still the information and media but on every side of information and its dimensions and still not embedded and entrenched to them. You are free, independent, objective, unbiased, unfettered and holistic information unto yourself. You are ONE and SAME with holism of Information. You have broken free of all external causalities and therefore, your consciousness and cognition interacts only with those causalities, which you as independent information, design and devise, with optimal awareness and best of objectivity.
This is the situation, which we can metaphorically call as discovering the true, real and ultimate treasures within and then lead a rich and contented life. This is the idealism, which science of information seeks to install in you. The philosophies and spiritualism have been advocating the same since over 3000 years. As and when you discover and stand in perfect possession and use of the treasure inside, you can easily see and accept, how there is no utility and worth in external entities, which we culturally accept as precious and seek to attain. You can see, how those external realities have no value of its own. You had lent this value-judgment to them. As you are now independent and unaligned information, you can accept, all utilities and worth are inside you and you and your consciousness is the only dispenser of all values, utilities and worth to anything. As you already have all value and worth inside you, you sure do not need the ‘pebbles’ of the external realities. Your own inside information is the perfect world for you and its own journey is filled with infinite potentials and probabilities of worthiness.
This state of you and your consciousness is the seed situation for blossoming of novel and alternative choices for life-living. But the fact remains that it is one part to understand and imbibe the art of writing good poetry. The other adjunct of this enterprise is actually writing a good poetry. It is because; understanding is only part of the enterprise of witnessing and observing. The important part is to be witness to the other dimension of recreating and engineering the imbibed information. It is about journeying different dimensions of information. There are dimensions to information, which you align with for a particular causality. You must also be aware of them.
For example, you have journeyed the information landscape of books available on the subject of molecular biology and have zeroed down on a book, which you need to read. This is one part of the information you have successfully observed and witnessed. You go to a library and ask the librarian that you need a book with blue cover and molecular biology written on the cover. The librarian looks at his or her catalogue and finds three books with blue cover and on molecular biology. The librarian takes out any of the three and assigns it to you. You take the book home only to find that it sure is about the same subject but deals with cellular mechanism of protein synthesis, whereas what you had sought pertained to pathological response mechanism at cellular and molecular levels. You therefore get the inappropriate information and if you do not know what specific need you had, you would happily imbibe the inappropriate information as the right and true one.
The librarian is not at fault in a major way, though he or she should have helped you out in being more specific. But then, it is your need and you should have asked him or her for the specific book with precise book title, author name and publisher detail. As your information was partial, the recall of information for the librarian was unspecific and you finally landed with inappropriate information.
This happens. Your brain states are a huge plexus of information, stored in different brain layers and it is very much like a huge library with thousands of books. The librarian does not recall them all. The librarian has its catalogue available to her at his or her desk and from there, he or she can trace, in which corner, which shelf and which column-row a specific book might be resting in the library. The cataloguing has to be perfect and the librarian also must be smart enough to trace the specific book through the system of cataloguing. This metaphor is being used for you to understand that information has many dimensions and as you are a bundle of information and your brain processes, stores and catalogues billions of such information, there must be brilliant recall mechanism for the information to be used well. This is one dimension of information.
Probably, the most critical dimension of information is its objectivity and non-egoistic dissemination by your media of consciousness. You have accessed and internalized the holism of information and its probable dimensions but then; the information is processed and disseminated by your media of consciousness, when you and your consciousness interact with the external information landscape. It is here, in the external information landscape, your consciousness seeks a whole range of association and alignment with differentiated shades of informational realities. This is the test of the nobility, novelty, objectivity, amicability, assimilation, cooperation, synergy, et al of your consciousness and you as the agency or media of information. Let us understand this aspect of information and media with the help of another metaphor. This should help you decipher this critical dimension of information.
You and your consciousness have unraveled, deciphered and internalized this information of love and its different dimensions within your own internal information landscape. You have understood and accepted that love is a complex bundle and package of information; very much like you and your consciousness and it is also an emergent, transient and ever-evolving informational reality. You have understood and accepted that very much like your own consciousness; love is also like a ‘suitcase’ entity. This means, as there are different things packed inside a suitcase, which are related but also unique in utility and usages; still from outside, the bundle or package is referred to as a suitcase. Similarly; love is also like a suitcase. This metaphor of love as suitcase means, love is a bundle of different shades and nature of related but also unique informations but as they are seen, observed and experienced from outside, they look one singular entity like a suitcase. The suitcase is an objective and non-egoistic information. What is loaded and stuffed inside the suitcase is no business of suitcase. Still, different suitcases shall be different, even when looking the same as within them, the packed items shall be different.
So, you know it very well that love is a complex bundle of information and therefore, it has so many different ‘parts’ and dimensions of information. It is the holism of information, which is what we have accepted love as. Therefore, you are very much aware of both the ‘parts’ of the information landscape of love as well as its holism. However, this information of love, which your media of consciousness and you have understood and are in good possession, has to interact with elements in the external information landscape and your consciousness and you have to be very dexterous when this internal information of love lands in interaction with external information. You and your consciousness have to ensure that you disseminate love in the same exalted and munificent standards, which you have accepted love with, within your own internal landscape.
So, how you go about love? You accept that love is primarily for you, for your own wellness and for the completeness and perfectness of your consciousness. Love is the tallest, widest, the best and most magnificent building in your internal information landscape. You accept that love is like a fragrance, which must pervade throughout your internal information landscape. Every speck and detail of your own information and media of consciousness must have the feel and aroma of love. Love in its holism of information must define and deliberate on every element of information and all its dimensions. Love is not something you do, express and display. It is your consciousness. This in turn ensures that every shades and shape of your cognition is moderated and conditioned by the highest and noblest benchmarks of love. Love reflects its essence and imagery in your thoughtfulness, behavior, actions and interactions. Love is the most precious of information and it paints all other information and realities in different hues and colors so that they all essentially conform to and fit into the holism of idea and idealism of love.
Love is a suitcase reality. Love bundles up and packages all things good, right, appropriate, assimilative, symbiotic, synergetic, empathetic, complementing et al. As you and your consciousness are ‘witness’, journeying the external information landscape; observing, absorbing, judging and assigning values; love may also be accepted as the ‘witness’, which journeys the external information landscape; observes, absorbs, judges and assigns values to your consciousness and cognition. If anything, which does not belong to the suitcase identity of love; it is redundant and even unworthy of any association for your consciousness and you. Love is your God. It is the reality, which you have to be in light with.
Then, how does this information of love interacts and aligns with external information landscape and its dimensions? You and your consciousness love everything that you journey and associate with. You don’t only love a woman or a man. You don’t only love your family and friends. You don’t only love what you think is good and right. You just don’t have to be into the ‘doing’ of love. You just present the highest and noblest information of love, as internalized within your internal landscape, to all things in the external information landscape. Those, who have the same aware, noble and benchmarked information of love as you have; they shall respond and align in the associational and symbiotic ways. Those who don’t have them, they automatically shall dissociate and fall apart. You do nothing for the sake of love and do not even show it to someone. You just be what you are – a noble, aware and benchmarked Information of Love.
Only a powerful transistor catches the radio waves present in the open air and starts to relay the beautiful song, the waves have. The wave seeks no transistor and it seeks nobody to listen to the song contained in the waves. The waves are there, they present themselves. A worthy and good transistor happens; the music happens; happiness happens; meaningfulness and righteousness happens. When this happens, love changes dimensions, as the song engenders another dimension of the wave. When love gets reciprocation, it changes its dimension and the novel dimension fills in more beautiful and worthy entities in the suitcase entity of love. Love is strengthened, it is diversified and augmented. This new information of augmented and symbiotic love may itself seek to have a new entity and nomenclature of specific nature and dimension. It may seek the nomenclature of ‘romantic’ love. Even if it does; you just have to be the aware witness. You and your consciousness must never be part of the new nomenclature and get yourself invested in it. You remain the same aware witness and objective judge of this new information and its specific dimension. You are the information. Your consciousness is information. Information must always maintain the highest, noblest and most objective standards of pure, true and real information.
This is true with all realities of life-living; not only love. You and your consciousness never have to worry about and think in terms of attainments and successes of life-living. You just have to remain hundred percent invested in your own internal information landscape. You invest in awareness, journeying, witnessing and objectively judging your own internal information and its dimensions. You create worthiness with your own information and these worthy informations must form the suitcase, bundle and package of your consciousness. Your consciousness and cognition must be defined and deliberated upon by love, compassion, accommodation and cooperation. Your consciousness must always disseminate the waves of musicality and fragrance. Worthy waves shall get only worthy transistors. You do not have to seek anything in your life-living. The ultimate treasure is within your own internal landscape. You and your consciousness are themselves huge potentials of all probabilities of attainments. What is there to be attained is the holism and objectivity of information. What is there to be sought after is how optimally and honestly you and your consciousness align with all other information landscapes in non-egoistic, non-self-validating and compassionate connects. You and your consciousness enterprise not for material attainments of life-living but for ensuring a witness-mode association with all informational realities and judge them objectively. Is this simple and easy? What is simple and easy in life-living than stupidities, hypocrisies and shamelessness!
To sum up the deliberations above, we may be better off if we do it with questions itself. This may very well be the summary of what we have talked so far. The questions are –
The answers are not complicated; they are very simple and easy. You get some information and you immediately like to know more about it. Information has its own causalities. Information is linked and related to many other information and it is only a very natural corollary and progression that you seek more details and other aspects or dimensions of the information. For example, someone tells you that your old friend is visiting you in the evening. Immediately you seek more information – is he or she coming with their spouse? Are the children also coming? Will they stay for dinner? Is he or she going to stay overnight with you? What might have prompted him or her to visit you after so many years? Etc. The same must be the progression of you and your consciousness as bundle and package of information. You and your consciousness must always be willing and ready to journey more information and make efforts for having the information in its holism and entirety. More information you have with you, better shall be your preparedness for any eventuality in life-living. As you and your consciousness are information; your personal growth, wellness, empowerment and success depends on how well informed you are and how best you have journeyed with optimal awareness as witness and observer, the information landscapes within you and outside. This is the best and most precious possession you have for optimal readiness of life-living challenges.
Secondly, when you pack your suitcase, you usually ensure that it has the best of things available at your disposal. You don’t pack your suitcase with ordinary and mundane. You know a suitcase is what you shall have when you are out of your home and that is why it must be packed with all possible things, which you may need when away from home. That is why you pack your suitcase with best of and most needed stuffs. Moreover, you also pack them with great care and dexterity, so that not only it could accommodate more things but the things should also remain as it is and don’t get messed up. You also put the things in such a way that when needed, you could access them, without having to toss up everything out on the floor. Essentially, you invest your best attention and care when packing the suitcase. As your own consciousness is a suitcase of multi-dimensional information, you pack your consciousness with the best of information, with utmost care and dexterity. You invest best of your energy and thoughtfulness to ensure that when in need, you have easy and prompt access to certain information. You pack your suitcase of consciousness with best of information. You cannot be careless about it. Are you?
Your preparedness with information and carefulness with information is key to your wellness and success. As you understand and truly own your questions, it simply means, you are with the holism of information. The answer is also information. It is another dimension of information. Questions arise out of the partial awareness and possession of information. Questions mean, you have not packed your suitcase well and you have not done justice to the holism of information. As you journey the holism of information landscapes, you definitely discover those dimensions of information, which stand as answers. This is reality in its holism for you. You are information; your consciousness is media of information. You and your consciousness must be in optimal possession of holism and entirety of information. And, all your information must be very skillfully packaged and packed with optimal awareness and recall.
This is simple and straightforward metaphor of wellness and success in all life-living situations and stages. This metaphor of the idea may sound simple but its execution and practical use in daily life-living may not be. It requires non-egoistic and non-self-validating consciousness. The rewards however are mesmerizingly brilliant and very satisfying. Nothing precious can compete in worth in front of an empowered and highly aware media of consciousness.
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