THE VALUE of SENSING THE CHANGES

Parent Page : The Benefits / Change is Reality and Therefore Secure

Things which don't change or move aren't vital, they aren't alive. For animals, they aren't dangerous.

Man-made events normally change predictably.

Some natural events like the seasons, and the sun and moon also change following regular patterns. But in the small world of animals most changes and movements happen randomly.

One day i hear a dog barking three times, then two days nothing, then another bark. A small fly does a wiggling dance, probably unique. In panoramic reality we witness vividly, all the time, that unexplainable things happen randomly.

For blackbirds this random reality is cause for insecurity.

Humans have walls and weapons, abstract understandings, moral codes, and laws to protect us, we have no reason to feel threatened by such things. We organised life with clocks and roads. And then we conformed to the patterns we created.

It seems this practical security among humans has led to indifference and lack of awareness.

These days, we are missing the opportunity to just be amazed at real life in this random reality.

In previous times we needed focused abstract thought to make sense of the real tactile world – now we need to be in touch with the chaos in the real tactile world again, in order to make sense of our abstract ideas.

Panoramic sensing evolved to recognise the changes, the insecure impermanences, it was built for that purpose. It was built to feel safe in those conditions, in exactly that environment.

Humans Chose to be Predictable
Most things in nature changes randomly, and most human activity is predictable.

Modern humans almost always make predictable movements with a predictable momentum. And they are almost always horizontal, they stick to the paths. Humans are boring! Compare this to a hedgehog, squirrel or a bird, the sudden starts and stops, the round-about routes they take from A to B. And then compare this to the crazy irrational dance of insects.

Human ingenuity has provided us with some wonderful examples of the abstract security we always wanted. Philosophers have ideas about opposites becoming one. Poets make up stories about the circle of life. All such ideas are ultimately one-sided and misleading. We're always adding another level of abstraction to our understanding. But by ignoring panoramic reality, we're always moving one step further away from reality and the truth.

In the real world there are very few true opposites. The only things which are perfect opposites are things like electric lights, because there's an on-off switch which humans made.

And life only rarely changes in circles; it's more like a jungle of pogo-sticks connected with rubber bands.

If changes and movements were predictable then animals wouldn't need to use their panoramic abilities, they would know when and where danger was going to happen.

My experience and the blackbirds experience of the panoramic world is life at face value without any interpretation or abstract thought.

Change always happens here and now, and by being directly aware of the changes as they are happening, we become real and actual in the present moment.

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