Allow Scenarios to Collide in the Mind, and Feel the Joy

FMS#365 || Faridabad-NCR || November 2018

Sorry I didn’t come by yesterday. Everyone had stopped work; it was a bright milieu.

At the construction site?

Yes. We stopped work for two days at the beginning of October as well. This is how it is going to be. It will step up. Let’s see. The matter seems complicated.

Does it at all seem to be moving towards any remedy? Any screws coming undone?

It’s important that work is stopped from time to time. If this happens often, in many places, it will create a momentum. Conversations will gain in confidence.

Here today, again somewhere tomorrow. Yet again elsewhere. Then there, and there. Everywhere!

For a few hours here, then again there, and for a day there, and two days here.

It’s like we are composing a song. And many people are part of the making.

This is not an unusual occurrence. It happens all the time. Feel the fervour, the passion. Pass it to one another with words, through messages.

The construction site where you work is immense. That a rhythm pulsates through thousands together is beautiful. It is there in other work places too. I feel one rhythm calls to another, quietly.

Agreed. Too much calculation and weighing of things is a vortex; it sucks in and removes from the conversation what was thought, how it was shared, how everyone moved together, stayed together. All that remains is the language of results.

Yes. Results, and despondency. These two keep chasing one another. And they turn the depth of experience into an abyss.

Yes, agreed. Imagine. Thousands of work spaces. A turbulence of flows and fluctuations everywhere. And everywhere, work suddenly at a standstill.

Everything is quiet. The management leaves the factory. All walk away from their work stations and break into a dance. Where is room for disappointment here? How will results be measured?

Friends who have grown up around coal mines describe a scene. Fires burning everywhere. A fire always flows beneath the surface of the earth.

Incredible. My neighbour is from the hills. He cooks such good meat. He beautifully describes a scene. When it rains, small, cascading waterfalls join each other. As if they will melt the mountain. It’s frightening. And it is also exhilarating. As if you are yourself water that can melt a mountain.

Disappointment! Where? A measuring of results—how? Allow scenarios to collide in the mind, and feel the joy.

I think the mind always conjures scenarios. We must think about how it is only certain scenarios that become foregrounded. I believe all scenarios jostle and are in battle with each other. We inhabit this battle of scenarios.

Yes, scenarios are leads into large terrains. They highlight forces. Our inability to see one another as forces is our biggest shortcoming.

I agree, but disagree. I do think we recognise force in each other. We are quick to sense and respond, after all, to the negative and deactivating force in another. But we are really, so very slow to recognise the other forces—the activating forces creating new values.

There is a way. Let’s just do away with all three—the hero, the anti-hero, and the zero. And let’s call on the uncountable sparks, debates, intelligences, velocities, and practices from different scenarios.

And what about those other scenarios—the ones that make these resplendent scenarios disappear?

Those? They are samosas. Fry them.

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