In Greek mythology Atlas, the giant has the responsibility of carrying the Earth. How did he do that?
Greek mythology from Co-pilot
The Greek myth of Atlas tells of a Titan who was condemned to carry the heavens upon his shoulders. However, the popular expression “to carry the weight of the world on one’s shoulders” is a bit misleading. Instead of the entire world, Atlas bore the celestial sphere—the sky itself. In various versions of the myth, he stood at the western edge of the Earth, supporting the sky on his head and hands or holding the pillars that kept heaven and earth apart. His most famous role involved assisting Hercules in retrieving golden apples from the Hesperides, a task that required Atlas to briefly take on the burden of the sky while Hercules fetched the apples. Quite the celestial weightlifting, wouldn’t you say?
Have you ever carried the Earth like atlas? Of course you have. I’m sure of it but it’s not the true earth it’s a replica of it. We all had a globe in our house. I still do and I like to carry it turn it around and navigate. That was fun until we found out that the Google Earth it better so nowadays without carrying earth instead carry our phones.
To carry the earth like Atlas- information sphere
Atlas is a true giant. His only task was to carry the earth. And if I say, we all carry the earth like Atlas, you will not agree with me so I will have to explain. In a previous article, I have discussed about building mental prison and also about the Information spare if we assume our knowledge to be a planet or a sphere ever since we learn this information we are caring the information earth, and boy, this is heavy Just like the true earth for the Atlas. How much heavy I would say it’s more than the Earth. Imagine when you are a child with little Information, we were happy most of the day once the information starts to accumulate in our brain it’s heavier now. So, if you ask one thing which is heavier than the earth, I will say its information world that we carry.
Next obvious question is can we get rid of this burden of information sphere? Do you know anyone, who is not carrying the information sphere? Are following examples.
He who doesn't carry the earth.
Imagine a person with dementia, he seems to forget everything, that he has learnt over the years, hence, he is getting rid of the burden of the world. Does this mean we should be happy, that someone be friend to ours is dementic, than being sad? Although he has lost the choice to be happy, he has lost the risk of being sad as well. Do you want to be dementic? Are we trying to achieve such a state by doing peaceful meditation? We are trying our best to reduce the sensations and calm down the thoughts which is fundamental state of a dementic individual!
Or we could call it a Coma. Have you ever seen a person in the ICU, with a coma? His organ's function but can wake up one day without any thoughts of what happened since he had an accident. More commonly would never wake up, and family members might choose to donate the organs, for other non-comatic individuals. It seems like we do not like such a state. That our living is somehow associated with a functioning, information sphere. This is what is called the personality theory in philosophy. Once you do not have a functioning personality, it is rather like being dead. So, for a person who meditates, during the time that although the calmed down of thoughts, the personality is not lost. There is difference than in dementia, where personality is lost. Similarly, in a persistent vegetative state after a brain death, personality would be lost.
So, now we have seen the two sides of the living and 'Not so living'. In living, we have to carry the information earth, like atlas does all the time. If we choose, to drop this earth, we would be achieving nonliving. Temporarily in deep meditation. So, you would understand that living is going to be heavy over years. Do you know something similar? It is like the Sisyphus Greek mythology. We are punished by the burden of the information we carry, which is the same information we use to find happiness in life. Is there a solution? I believe there is, and that is finding out and understanding the process. The true nature of things.
Happy thoughts
If I have made you little depressed in my article, I would like to apologies. To end up with happy thoughts, I would give you a trick. Let's look at a child. A child would not know about the bad things about the world, and he doesn't know much about the world. How can we gain, the happiness the child had? At least can we get closer. Can we train our mind? Try this trick, when you look at something or hear, try to identify the thoughts which follow. Silently observe this. And once you identify the learnt information, try to forget it and look at the object again. Like with bare awareness, and let the wisdom grow, like a child. If you would like to understand more on this, written, Statue of David.
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