“Exploration is what is needed not ideology. Ideology means you have made your summary of life. If life can be summed up, it is not worth living.” — Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Recently, this term ideology has permeated innumerable conversations on a myriad of topics. It can be rather perplexing to use this term in a cavalier manner when referring to one’s life, or the total of life in general. When with each moment our lives can change dramatically, it seems senseless to incorporate an ideology that becomes ancient history in a split second.
As life evolves, we assess each experience through various skills that we have learned, practiced and shared. Fundamentally, it is extremely challenging to formulate a living ideology based on faulty information or subjective opinion. Of course, we could always base our ideology solely on our experience . . . and Oscar Wilde put it another way, “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
In the present moment, have you formulated any basic ideology for yourself? Did you ever give it a second thought? It can be a rather slippery slope encompassing the total of life . . . ideologically. Make no mistake, there are innumerable individuals who embrace this philosophy . . . early and often. When the opportunity presents itself to become alertly alive, and consciously present in your own life the words of Edward Burke are quite poignant, “Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.” As the steward of your own life, how are you embracing your time . . . consciously or ideologically?
In becoming conscious, aware, present and in the now of life, we are responsible for our moment to moment existence without excuses. When that switch flips on . . . there is no turning back for anyone. Could the reflection of an ideology, be keeping most individuals unconscious? Are you in the process of exploring your life, through all the possibilites presented to you in every moment? The answer is different for all of us, however Voltaire interjects another thought putting it another way, “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” JLR