Never encapsulate a subject
“Everything is interconnected and interdependent” is a saying I first read in a book by Lama Dalai. This common phrase resonates with many, as it encapsulates the world’s complexity. Yet when we practice this consciously, we often find that the connection is lost in the vastness we cannot fully understand. Like mosquitos, “what the love” are they connected to!?
The world is immense. Connections are visible, but the entire web of knowledge is beyond our grasp.
When I began studying how learning and understanding occur, I concluded that I needed to encapsulate a subject in a contemplative process to remember it forever. This approach was partially correct. Newly acquired knowledge and insights must be bound to a core of personal conscious understanding.
This requires us to be aware of our individuality in the universe, allowing us to acquire knowledge consciously. Our discoveries are meant to grow around our inner structure, which is feelable, but unseable. But if we confuse the Ego with the Self, we might find that our knowledge creates tension rather than relaxation.
The evolution of the conscious learning experience of the world begins with our personality through a dual process. We can allow ourselves to be influenced by helpful external events, interactions, and people while repelling what we find harmful. This duality stems from our primal instincts for survival and comfort.
Becoming aware of our interconnectedness with nature and everything around us transcends our primal instincts into a more complex form, often called intuition. For example, eating with more awareness goes beyond just taste and satiating hunger, as we consider more factors in the process. Learning with more conscious awareness prepares us for the future instead of just solving an immediate need that will surely appear again in our life, in various forms, if treated unconsciously.
Connection of knowledge
Connecting to a learning subject creates a liberating experience, as you will feel the meaning of your inquiries while you discover new knowledge on the way. When this happens consciously, it is followed by a hard-to-describe feeling of realizing there is more to become aware of.
A scientist once said, “We have discovered everything that was to be discovered; now we only have to measure with better approximation.” This statement, while logical, lacks depth of sensibility. The realm of DNA alone holds enough information for another hundred years of exploration. Similarly, the universe has billions of galaxies, yet we have only observed hundreds of planets. Humanity is very young, as we haven’t yet experienced an apocalypse or large-scale spiritual enlightenment.
From studying the history of science, I learned that those who created significant formulas knew there was more to discover. E=mc² is crucial now, but in a hundred years, it might be as important as Pythagoras’ theorem is today.
Understanding increases our learning potential. Learning about a historical event connects us to more information we want to explore. To understand our discoveries, we must delve into the history of humanity, life, and the universe. If history is the relative events of humanity, present events are the quantic happenings. To understand the connections between we must also know ourselves, as each one of us behaves like a portal between.
Avoid conclusions
Conclusions can create an illusion of knowledge, as they often make us consider that our search has ended. Focus on finding connections that lead to discoveries, providing meaningful insights connected to your core understanding of the world.
Guided by emotion
Let emotions guide your learning and exploration paths, but don’t be overwhelmed by them. Both excitement and fear can misguide you into unconscious behavior. A peaceful emotional state offers more silence for insights to happen, and understanding to form.
Awareness of surroundings
Always be aware of what is around you, as this will create a connection between knowledge and the present, making it more memorable. Create a logical structure for your discoveries through reflection, as the surroundings are also in the mind, where other connections can happen.
Conscious exploration
Exploring consciously makes discoveries easier to find. Going slowly helps create a stable pathway. Contemplate what comes to mind; these are clues leading to meaningful insights that improve understanding and change how you manifest yourself.
Conclusion… or connections!?
We cannot encapsulate the vastness of knowledge; we can only connect to it. The great discoveries left by humanity’s greatest minds are not conclusions, but pinpoints around which we can structure our discoveries. Every human expanding our collective understanding includes every one of us.
When we conclude something we lose a connection which can lead to a better understanding. When we close the gates for further exploration we will live only with what is inside. Humanity is doing it through what we call religion, civilization, governments, and various specific groups. If the survival instinct unconsciously guides us to do so, and through rationality, we give shape to our world. We have enough safety now to bypass this primal feeling, yet the inner tensions grew more complex only.
Living aware of our individuality and its interconnectedness with humanity, nature, and the universe can only happen consciously. One human’s discovery can open new realms previously unimaginable, but this connection will only exist if one becomes aware of it. Everyone feels the same when a conscious understanding occurs—an ecstatic flow through every vein, changing behavior, psyche, and memory.
Final thoughts
- When you study something, don’t look for conclusions; they create an illusion of knowledge. Focus on finding connections that can lead to other discoveries.
- These will provide meaningful insights connected to your understanding of the world. Let emotions guide you but remain grounded in awareness.
- Create a flexible structure for your discoveries and explore consciously. This approach will enhance your learning potential and intelligence.
- If something doesn’t feel relevant momentarily, keep looking for meaning. The relativity of those connections is beyond your present sight, as those are the most significant inquiries you can have.
- Feel free when you learn, there are as many pathways for exploration as humans are born.
