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We
love to live in our cocoon as an individual. We never think of
piercing a hole in our cocoon, to put our head out through that
hole and observe the universe.
Our only dream is to live with love in our cocoon.
However, the magic of the universality turns all the values
within our cocoon upside down.
The things that are accepted as the realities of yesterday such
as wearing a necktie, dancing, wearing a black tie dress,
looking down upon the non-muslim, eating hamburgers, using a
carry phone, establishing imaginary friendships, driving a car,
adopting a personality which is based on the make up culture are
the states of mind, those versions of the mind which have
still remained within the cocoon.
The son of man has realized that there isn’t an end to this
kind of behaviour and way of thinking. He realized that he
had to stay away from this pluralistic media which is
disconnected from the truth/the realities, which indeed does not
have any meaning. In parallel with this realisation he made
himself believe that in order to be superior, to be an
authority, to become more respectable and believable the only
possibility that he had was to pierce the cocoon.
Trying to be individualistic remains considerably poor and ugly
when compared to universality. You can immediately become aware
of such a situation in an article that you read or in the way
you look at the events.
For example, if you can be calm and neutral in any kind of
action towards a stranger and if you can keep the same attitude
if that action is made to a person close to you, or when you
loose something if you do not keep your mind busy with it, then
this means that in your consciousness the universal lights have
started to shine.
The first step out from the cocoon starts in this manner. It is
the sign showing that the consciousness has reached a certain
level.
Of course, what I have been telling is not something which can
be grasped without taking any risks and it never takes place by
chance in a random manner.
The answer to the question ‘’What are the things that are
successful in keeping the individual inside the cocoon?’’
should be ‘’the feelings, emotions, conditionings, value
judgements and the comments in relation with these.’’
The most important thing is that during the process of
piercing the cocoon there are difficulties which one has not met
before. These are the things which we have acquired in the
past and did not have the courage to get rid of them.
At
the root of all these there lies the feelings such as
touchiness, anger, rage, enmity, revenge. As a result when
that wild and fierce thing named as the false conjectures /
suppositions start to play its role, then the individual accepts
himself as only a body of flesh and bones and goes on living in
this manner.
Amidst this chaos the human being tries not to loose his
individual desires, beliefs, values and opinions in a
horizontal transformation instead of reaching out to the
universal values.
Moreover, he is deprived of the freedom of speech, the talent
of expressing his thoughts freely. Therefore, the one who
looses is the individual.
As
a result he becomes more and more introvert and produces for his
individuality. He cannot make up a whole with the meaning. It
is sad to say , but he forgets his real position, the objective
of his existence and he cannot pierce, make a hole in the wall
in which he had prisoned himself.
In
that confused state (which he cannot overcome) he leads a
happy life, because he loves his COCOON.
Istanbul, June 10rd 2003
http://sufizmveinsan.com
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