Conflicts And The Factor Of Time
My blog ‘ Looking Inward’ was based on the simple concept of observing, together, what the world is and what we are, what we have made of the world and what we have made of ourselves.
To observe clearly one must be free to look – obviously – without being biased to one’s experiences, judgements and prejudices. Here’s where we need to use the capacity of our intelligence. Intelligence allows us to understand, to distinguish; to observe, to put together all that we have gathered and to act from that. It demands doubting, questioning, not being impressed by others, by their enthusiasm, by their energy – just pure impersonal observation. It implies that we gather as much information as possible, yet knowing that that information can never be complete, about anybody or anything.
Intelligence allows us to fully comprehend man’s complexities, his physical responses, his emotions, his intellectual capacities, his affection and his travails, and yet it has not been able to overcome conflicts in our world.
We live in ‘conflicts’ from the time we are born and will continue co do so until we die. There is the constant struggle to be successful in the world; and by being involved in that we deny our ‘original’ biological self in favor of being a content ‘psychological’ being.
This is seen all over the world. Everyone is trying to become, or to be, or to avoid – something. This exactly is the perpetual cause of conflict. Inwardly there is this imitation, competition, conformity with the ideal; outwardly there is this competition between so-called individuals of one group against another group, nation against nation. Inwardly and outwardly there is always this drive to become and to be something.
His pursuit of illusionary ideals has made man highly sophisticated in one direction, so utterly unintelligent in other. So the main question in this post is : Does conflict end through knowledge?
Knowledge about oneself, about the world, about society – Will that solve our human conflict? Or is it that freedom from conflict has nothing whatsoever to do with knowledge? Will our analytical mind analysing very clearly, rationally, sanely into the cause of conflict; end conflict?
We tend to analyse causes of the conflict, and in doing so separate ourselves from the actual conflict – will that solve it? If we follow somebody who says: `I will show you the way; I am free from conflict and I will show you the way’ – will that help us?
Philosophers and scientists have said: time is a factor of growth, biologically, linguistically, and technologically. When we say that ‘I am this, but I will be that’ – we are mentally preparing ourselves to become something else within a certain time frame. Thus ‘time’ is a very important factor of any conflict. We have ‘thought’ of what we want to be. This ‘thought’ has been made on the basis of experience and knowledge formatted in our brain as ‘memories’.
Memories are always over a time period and hence it would be safe to conclude that ‘thought’ and ‘time’ are inseparable. The only option for us is to use our intelligence and change our thoughts with the passage of time. We desperately need ‘intelligence’ to change.
Like one of my senior colleagues in my current office, always tells me: “Let things take their natural turn. Do not try to force the situation. There is always a time factor associated to it.” He was referring to one of my personal internal conflicts that I had confided in with him.
The only concern to me is – How long should I wait for people to analyse and understand? Do I have the luxury of time to wait for outcomes? What if nothing happens? Should I just resolve it by a dialog? Or will a dialog bring disgrace to a potential graceful process?
The questions are endless. Perhaps, I will find the answers to my own internal conflicts one day as I blog along…
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