In the earlier posts, I dealt on the Memory gaps or failures leading to Fragmentations. But here I would deal with cognitive failures, before taking up more memory failures in the future posts.
When an ordinary person becomes Aware of a new Mango tree without fruits, he will recognize it as a mango tree without fruits, even though he had only seen Mango trees with fruits earlier, and in his memory those images and words are there to compare and to recognize. This recognition is the thinking, as "This is a Mango tree, without fruits", backed by the words and images in memory. He may not feel that his thinking as a Condition of the past, nor he would feel Divided within, leading to insecurity, fear and suffering.
But it is not the Situation for K. Why K feels Divided, when he sees a tree and when 'thoughts' do arise, which he sees as a Condition? What exactly a Condition?
When an ordinary person becomes Aware of a new Mango tree without fruits, he will recognize it as a mango tree without fruits, even though he had only seen Mango trees with fruits earlier, and in his memory those images and words are there to compare and to recognize. This recognition is the thinking, as "This is a Mango tree, without fruits", backed by the words and images in memory. He may not feel that his thinking as a Condition of the past, nor he would feel Divided within, leading to insecurity, fear and suffering.
But it is not the Situation for K. Why K feels Divided, when he sees a tree and when 'thoughts' do arise, which he sees as a Condition? What exactly a Condition?
According to K's explanation, the past knowledge in the memory acts as the Condition, that is past words, images, knowledge, etc., are the Conditions. What does the 'Condition' do? It makes one rigid, making one unable to see the things, one becomes aware of, as it is.
Did the ordinary person above, who became aware of the mango tree, is conditioned? Was he unable to see the new Mango tree 'as it is'? He was able to see the mango tree 'as it is', without fruits. Before, I explain this situation, let us look at a 'Conditioned' thinking of a mango tree by K.
Example of a 'Conditioned' thinking, by K.
Young K is with his friends out side. K becomes aware of a Mango tree, without fruits. The present image of the Mango tree does not appear in his mind as the present image (K is non-Cognitive, the Gap), to compare with old memory items of mango trees. Hence, there is no recognition of the present as it is. But past image of the mango tree arises as the 'Thought', as the present mango tree, which K become aware of, where that past memory image and the words, had mango fruits in it, but not the present mango tree.
K - (pointing) Look, lets go and pick those mangoes.
Boy -1 - Where?, is there any mangoes? I cannot see.
Boy -2 - K is dreaming or his eye sight have gone bad.
All - (Laugh). (K starts to doubt his thinking.)
Hence, if one cannot capture the present image of the mango tree, (be cognitive), to first to recognize it, in relation to the past, that it as a mango tree, and to retain the present image (a cognition can last for some duration as one requires it, or he can refresh it by observing it many times more, until he complete his thinking of it) to see the tree does not have mango fruits in it, to see as it is, then his thinking is entirely will be based on the past image and words, which is a Condition, a rigidity, which makes the movement of the mind impossible.
An ordinary person who recognizes, present image of the mango tree by comparing it to past knowledge and image of mango trees, sees the present mango tree as it is, having no fruits in it.
But on the other hand, K was unable to retain the present image (Cognition) of the mango tree, he became aware of, thinks in terms of a past image and knowledge, and thinks the tree as having mangoes. he is Conditioned by the past, rigid, and does not see as it is.
When he discloses his thinking to others, who have the normal thinking, their reactions to K is negative. Hence, K does not want to own, his own thinking. So 'thinking' becomes an alien thing, 'Not Me'. To avoid this perpetual condition of Thinking, as 'Not me', is to not to think. The solution, therefore is a thought-less state.
In a thought-less state, there would be awareness of the present tree, as it is, hence no Fragmentation.
Unable to retain the present image of anything K becomes aware of, that is unable to be cognitive in the mind, to compare the present image with that of past to understand the present, K's mind is Conditioned to bring up the past image and words only, in trying to understand the present, and K understand the present as the past. K was not able to escape from this Condition, **Hence he was trying to Respond to the present, the tree, since the present image is not there, his response from the past is 'Not Me', meaning that is not what he want to do. That is he does not want to respond from the past, which is erroneous.
This error, which K becomes aware of, generates insecurity, fear and sufferings, because of the bad experiences he had, when he tried to communicate his thoughts with others, which brought negative reactions from the others.
Since, K knew, starting from his childhood experiences, his thinking is flawed, the Thinking itself brings in insecurity, fear, sufferings, as he could not have a positive relationship with others, and he feels his Thinking as 'Not Me', an alien thing, hence K was torn, Divided and fragmented. This he generalizes for others as well, and was trying to offer solution of the Pathless, he found, to others as well.
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