Why Does the World Stick Around When Your Mind Takes a Vacation?
Hey, wake up. You there? Good.
Let's chew on something weird, something that's been tickling the frontal lobe of every awakened sage and clueless wanderer: What in the name of non-duality happens to the world when your mind shuts the hell up? Yeah, you heard right. Pack up your conceptual baggage…
…we’re going spelunking into the caverns of existence.
A Not-So-Silent Night
So you meditated. Turned off the lights upstairs.
Mind’s out for lunch, but, voilà! The world's still here—traffic jams, melting ice caps, and annoying neighbors. Ain't that a cosmic joke?
Makes you wonder if the world and your mind are less like college roommates and more like an old married couple who can't stand to part. Remember Plato's Cave? A place where shadows on the wall are mistaken for reality. But what if one of those cavedwellers had a moment of Zen clarity?
Would the shadows disappear? Hell no. Those shadowy illusions would keep dancing like there's no tomorrow…
…or no now, to be exact.
Mind’s Night Off, But The Show Must Go On
Got it? Mind off, world stays.
Like a cosmic 24-hour diner, this place never closes. Why? Because the mind isn’t the playwright…
…it's just one actor in a messed-up improv group called "Reality." This drama’s been going on long before your neurons started firing and will keep rolling after your last exhale. Take Schrödinger's cat, both dead and alive in that box. What if the cat meditates? Achieves purr-fect stillness. Does that resolve the paradox?
Nope. Quantum uncertainty remains. Your absence doesn’t end the play…
…it just shifts the spotlight.
When The Lights Go Out, Where Does the Projection Go?
Fine, your mind's the projector.
Then who’s the projectionist? Who’s in the booth pulling the strings? Spoiler: It's not you. It's not even your mind.
It's the script we’re all unconsciously subscribing to. A script written in the ink of beliefs, paradigms, and a million and one concepts about how things are or should be. Take Buddha, the guy who seemingly turned off his projector. World didn't vanish. He just saw it for what it was…
…a merry-go-round of attachments, aversions, and colossal misunderstandings. Mind shut down…
…reality didn't give a damn.
Seriously, Stop Taking It So Seriously
Look, if you're diving into Vedanta or Zen, hoping for a world switch-off button, you're playing the wrong game.
Your little "aha" moment isn't the universal remote control you think it is. Instead, why not treat this everlasting existential flick like what it really is—a farce. Best to laugh at the sheer absurdity of it all.
So next time you find stillness and wonder why the world hasn't packed its bags, remember:
It’s not a glitch; it’s a feature. Get comfy in the theater seat of existence…
…and pass the popcorn.