Where as in my reading I have gone Zen to Brain...
I think I am going to start sharing what I have learned from Brain to Zen...
so that I may not lose some of you early from the conversation.
So, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, whom I have shared before in our conversations did do a TED talk, but that was AFTER she wrote her book, "My Stroke of Insight". And, while many times, the books are unnecessary to read because "all that you needed to know was in the talk", in this case, reading the book was awesome.
And, recommended. If you want to better understand your mind and how it works and how it influences how you think, and possibly why you think as you do... you've got to read this book It's a quick read.
The very first line of the book starts...
"For any two of us to communicate with one another, we must share a certain amount of common reality."
To me, from the first words of the book, I see the relation to "harmony".
I translate that for myself ;-) For any two of us to achieve a common WANT, we must be willing to embrace our IS.
The whole book is about Dr. Taylor's experience through her stroke. Her ability to experience her life for some time (months) with limited or no use of her left brain.
If you haven't seen the TED talk - please google "Stroke of Insight TED" and watch it. It will give you better context - and it's a very useful 20 minutes.
"Our human code was not a random act, at least not in its entirety, but rather is better construed as nature's ever evolving quest for genetic perfection."
Nature, the energy of the universe, God... We as human beings ARE harmony... our bodies are one of the most amazing forms of harmony made real. "Nature", if you allow yourself to consider it, has for millions of years embraced the IS of our physiology and continuously evolved into the WANT of the most efficient and perfect human structure and machine that it could create.
I have always embraced "harmony" from ME as the epicenter of it. I have thought about the concept being much larger than me certainly, and possibly involving all man-kind. But, the concepts of harmony are the concepts borrowed from Buddhism, from the Kabbalah, from science... and I start seeing them now in bigger and bigger forms.
Sorry - getting a little Eastern on you.
But, if "Nature" or "God" perfected our bodies through time through a process consistent with harmony... where does our "energy" come from.... HOLD THAT THOUGHT...
Too early for that.
"Although each hemisphere is unique in the specific types of information it processes, when the two hemispheres are connected to one another, they work together to generate a single seamless perception of the world."
I am going to explore how the right brain and the left brain contribute to our thoughts and feelings of harmony and disharmony... And, I hope it makes as much sense to you as it does to me.
But, think of it... our brains are two separate organs operating together.
Harmony and Disharmony are two separate approaches to life - ultimately operating together.
The challenge to harmony and disharmony is that you can never become pure, or maybe that is "nirvana". But life is complicated. The thought of feeling simple bliss is hard to embrace, at least for me, because there are so many aspects to our lives, so many competing thoughts between our families, our health, our politics, our business, our children, our dreams, our desires... So many levels, time frames, characters in our stories.
This is also a new thought for me...
What if life and moments are not about simple "harmony" vs "disharmony"... (though I do think it ultimately nets out to that...
What if life and ever moment are two emotions that our mind is currently balancing to achieve a "single seamless perception of the world".
The NET single perception we want - we seek is one of harmony.
And, in all likelihood, some disharmony will always be in our minds as we achieve it. It is forced in by our left brain.. by some of our left brain.
Not trying to complicate things...
Just trying to embrace the "IS"...
Harmony is not just a "philosophy"... or a "mindset"... or a "discipline"...
It's all of those things and it is challenged AND made possible by how our brains work, and how our brains choose to interpret the universe, our behaviors, our reality...
in each and every moment...
this is why I haven't been writing...
I am still figuring it out...
and it's getting clearer...
I am working on it ;-)
in it!
Nestor