Everyone loves to see world. I am yet to see a human otherwise. Hence, we travel spending hundreds of dollars to far corners of the earth in dangerous hikes to see the unseen. We capture them with our cameras and in our minds. Experience is everything right?
Industries have exploited this craving of ours and adapted. They have adjusted to sell anything to be aesthetically pleasing. That's why you pay extra for anything luxurious. It will not only be tasty, comforting but more importantly aesthetically pleasing. Imagine a factory where they make shirts, or mugs. They do quality inspections and if there is any item with even a small damage would be taken out and sold to small vendors who will sell it in off market sales to low price. It is the same material. Same item. If you feel it your eyes closed, you will not feel any difference. But with a small dot, or a small cut here or there. Sometimes not even visible. But for the mind's eye it is a bigger hole. Far bigger than that it is.
Even if you compare food in a five-star hotel and a three-star hotel, immediately we could tell even without tasting or smelling, just by looking at the picture, which is which. Hence there is the term, "it is the presentation which matters". Yet if you taste food from a street vendor, can be tastier than the latter.
Where is the unseen world?
This brings me to the question of seen and unseen worlds. Although what matters is what we see, often we forget that there is an unseen world. Imagine the last vacation that you spent. The alluring sceneries that you have seen. Now Imagine the same place at this moment of time. What we can remember is what we have seen. But the same place may still exist (which is uncertain) and same scenes continues. We haven't seen this. And this phenomenon is common to everything that you have seen. The world or nature or universe is vast. But we only observe only a minute fraction of it in a given time, which is our lifetime. Everyone would agree in this scenario, that the unseen is bigger than what we have seen, or able to see, always. I can give you some examples.
You would agree,
There are more types of mangoes in the world than what you have seen.
There are more beautiful butterflies than you have seen.
There are more unseen flowers, more unseen valleys, more unseen trees, more unseen equations and ancient ruins, more unseen jewels than what we are able to see.
So, the unseen world is massive far bigger and there is no limit to this unseen world. And the obvious question is what we do with this? What do we do with this knowledge that the unseen world is massive. Trust me if you divide two heaps or lists the unseen list is expanding faster far beyond of your imagination.
Why should we know about the unseen world?
To me personally knowing this fact helps to reduce my cravings for things. When I see a beautiful tree, I would gasp, and see the beauty of it. Then I know the unseen world is bigger than what I have seen. Even if I stare at the tree a thousand years, I would not even be able to see everything about the tree. As it evolves second after second (world as a mathematical function). Should I be addicted to the beauty of a tree? To the feeling of happiness which I get now?
If you have read the bestselling book " The power of now" by Echarte Tolle, he asks us to do just that. Just to look at the beauty of things as we only have now. But wisdom doesn't allow that. The danger of doing that is, obviously, once we get tried looking at the tree, we would be in search of some more sceneries or tastes. As unseen is more, we would definitely find something. It may be a movie, it may be a car, it may be silence inside a forest. Isn't that we did all the time since our birth? We were looking for something.
Isn't that all the dictators in the world do?
Isn't that all the robbers in the world do?
Isn't that all the teachers, all the children, all the CEO's do?
And when you know that you can never satisfy your eyes by looking at beautiful trees, the craving for the search will ease. And mind would be able to let the tree just be a tree. So, I invite you as a friend next time when you see beauty, to see beyond the beauty and see the unseen truth that it holds.
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