“If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.”
I don’t know who Buddhi Draham is—an ancient Indian or Pakistani person who settled in China some 2000 years ago. DR Dahani speculated that he might be Pusthoon from northwestern KPK and had moved to China. A lot of Zen teachings belong to him or are attributes of him.
While Indians believe that he was a South Indian who traveled to China,
Buddah means wise one, while dharam means religion. Or way of life.
There is a possibility his name was lost and some honorable name was left.
While traveling to the office, one of his quotes caught my eye on Facebook.
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
So what is reality? Reality is sach, satheya. Your reality. Your current situation
The wise man just said that understanding is everything. What happened to you or the situation that you are facing? Misery you are facing. That is reality, because you cannot understand why this happens or what changes you need to achieve change. What are the mistakes?
So you have to depend on your reality.
Then comes understanding. You have to understand, and then you can change your reality. If you really want to change it,
Most of the time, we are not aware of our situation. Whether it happens from God or from nature, we have to just face it. Live with it as it is. It is designed in a certain way.
There are two types of things or situations we face in life. There are a few things we can change, but a few we cannot. For example, death, illness, old age, gender, and race cannot change.
But we change our point of view on life. How we see things. We can change how much income we have and improve our lifestyle. We can change our fitness. We can change how we treat others. And more importantly, how we treat ourselves.
The second quote is also interesting.
“If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.”
Here, what I understand is used for justification. When we start justifying, we cannot understand the actual issue. Instead of justification, we need to understand the reasons for the issue.