Sometimes I hear talks of spiritual Gurus and all I hear is preachings of a one-sided narrative. They talk about non-attachment, unselfishness (let’s see it as ‘not being self-centred’). They play the same old tune of humans being very selfish and attached and so on. They emphasize on a narrative that’s constant, linear and mundane giving examples of the sun working unselfishly or the water flowing regardless and so on.
Well guess what, the sun, water and majority of the things lack mental cognition to understand a fact, the act of defiance. This is not to say that they are in some capacity not doing it though. However, there’s a reason why we have been able to create a reasonably hostile environment into a habitable one. We are living in the best possible condition in the entire history of human civilization. The reason for all that is our ability to differ. Remember, apart from understanding, in every other way we are relatively weaker than other species.
This fundamental ability to differ is also the reason why we are a creative force. A force that can generate knowledge out of the majorly mundane, unchanging phenomena. How do we arrive at creativity though? We arrive by posing various questions that ensure things be seen through various individual cognitive mechanisms. This individual cognition which is the base of creativity also brings along with it a sense of individual self awareness. In other words, it brings a sense of you being an objective existence with a self centred cognition that let’s you unleash your understanding upon the universe.
This individual understanding ultimately leads you to realise that creativity is unending and the creative force, that is you, are fallible. Thus, what you create is changeable or replaceable. This understanding reduces attachment towards the knowledge you create and eventually selfishness or self-centred mindset in a gradual, individualized manner.