Thi is Life
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THIS IS LIFE
Do you have any doubt?THE WORLD IS NOTHING BUT INFORMATION
A person entered into the world while he did not know anything ? all he knows today is from this world.
The only access a human being has to the world is by the senses and the brain. All his feelings (subjective as well as objective) must be channeled through the nervous system before a person is conscious of it.
All human problems and all the solutions are sought, recognized and applied through the brain. All human motivations are channeled through the brain.
The brain (and consequently consciousness) is an enhancement to life. Plants are alive but unconscious.
Plants regulate the material forces by the process known as life. Animals manipulate life by the process known as consciousness. Human beings manipulate consciousness by the process known as ?SELF? through al-Aql.
Consciousness is nothing but Information. All that a human being is aware of is information and it is his world.
PAIN AND PLEASURE
While a human being did not enter the world with any information in the mind, he did come with the potential to learn ? a potential which is put into action as he enters the world and which does not cease to be utilized until death. Every human being learns from the cradle to the grave (attentively or inattentively).
Information is channeled to the Mind where it is tagged with either pain or pleasure. Information that is not tagged is irrelevant and therefore not perceivable.
Pain and Pleasure are inborn and the tagging is done automatically (attentively or inattentively). All human feelings are made up of pain and pleasure (physical as well as mental).
If there is any word much talked about but less understood, it is Pleasure. How much we talk about it but almost unaware of what it is?
When one talks of enchantment, expresses joy or feels high, he is indeed experiencing pleasure.
When we want people to sympathize with us or to share in our sorrow and joy, it is because we want to have rest of mind and would want to swim in an ocean of happiness. In a nutshell, we want to feel the presence of love at all time or simply said, we want to be pleased.
LIFE IS NOTHING BUT LOVE
Our life is a life of Relieve and Entertainment. All our activities in life, ranging from our quest for material necessities up to mental wealth, are motivated by the urge to be relieved of discomfort (whether physical or mental) and/or to be entertained - a relieve from lack of love and a rejoice over the presence of love.
No human being can survive without love. No conscious creature can survive loneliness; and it might be by this that all conscious creatures can be said to live as communities.
Pleasure can best be described as the Beloved which the Heart craves for. When it comes to the conscious level, it is experienced in conjunction with the resultant love. Therefore, the various facets of pleasure we experience in our life is made possible by the kind of stimulus that is involved.
Pleasure meanwhile, is either physical or mental or combination of the two. Physical pleasure is that kind of pleasure that appears to come from outside our mind while mental pleasure is within our mind (i.e., subjective).
Pain, like Hatred, is designed to protect Pleasure.
WILL-POWER
There are three lines of authority in a person
The first is the internal regulatory activities like the reflexes, instincts and the activities of the brain and the hormones.
The second is the Mind which is responsible for all conscious activities and the habits.
The last is the SELF which takes care of the intentions and decisions.
Naturally, a person is confronted with streams of information so long he is alive. Some of the bits of information are channeled to the mind and so a person is conscious of them. The mind handles information better (or it is expected to handle it better).
The information to the mind is automatically tagged and stored or retrieved and modified based on the beliefs and thoughts.
Beliefs are the deduction derived from the earlier information. Thinking is manipulation of the information to improve the quality or to increase the quantity.
The heart expresses love for any information that is tagged with pleasure and rejects any that comes with the tag of pain. This is also a natural process. Desire or an urge is based on this.
The Mind as the seat of the tagging or modification is also the seat of battle between the competing forces. There are sometimes conflicting desires or desire versus decision.
The Attention span (also known as the working memory) has to reach certain critical stage before it can be divided into two - this is incidentally how a person becomes an adult mentally.
An adult, with the extended attention span, has the ability for the first time to watch the process of thought as it takes place. It is like a computer that monitors itself through what is known as multitasking (running of more than one process concurrently).
Al-Aql, as an inborn, comes with a natural tag of pleasure. It is what makes a rational thought attractive to the heart.
Thinking is a process of comparing, contrasting and computing. Every human being naturally thinks (attentively or inattentively). It is by the process of thought that the bits of information are organized into beliefs.
The self has the ability to focus the mind but not without the support of the heart. The self (without al-Aql) is totally overwhelmed by the Heart.
The ability to see the process of thought (and consequently the emergence of al-Aql) is what creates the conflict of which a person has to choose whether to become rational in life or to remain blinded in thought.
The only control a person has over his life is his thought. The thoughts are responsible for feelings and the feelings are in control of all conscious activities.
Keeping and focusing of al-Aql is the work of AS-SALAAT. The keeping is known as AZ-ZIKR (Remembrance). It is a process whereby the DECISION and FEELINGS to remain rational and just in one?s life is brought back to the mind from time to time so as to regulate the process of thought.
The ability to decide and focus attention on the decision is what is referred to as the Will-Power.