Letting go the Frame and Framework

Letting go the Frame and Framework

In learning any concept that we do not know we try to search and choose that which we like or is recommended based upon someone's perception. Whatever the concept we choose based upon our likeness or based on someone's recommendation, we explore it and then try to spend some time in understanding it and probably practice the methodology given by the concept.

Any concept that is given by someone might have also created a framework to understand the concept. In the process of understanding the concept, we end up mostly sticking to the framework and start worshipping the frame that is the individual who has given the concept. In our ideology of worshipping the framework and the frame we rarely arrive at a realization that there will be something beyond the concept, the framework that has been introduced by the individual and beyond the individual or the frame also.

This is the time and space that we create ourselves where the concept, framework and the frame become boundaries, limit our understanding and restrict ourselves to stick within those boundaries. This is the risk and the danger that one has to understand and prepare oneself to let go the concept, framework and the frame. The analogy that can be used over here to understand is like we all chose a vehicle to travel from one place to another - may be a bicycle, a car or an aeroplane. But once we have travelled the said distance we let go those vehicles at someplace or the other and travel by foot all alone.

Similarly, we have to let go the concept, the framework and the frame, once we comprehend the concept and then make an every attempt to understand something beyond the concept, framework and the frame. 

This is what an every seeker need to understand and realize that on the spiritual path, the framework in terms of techniques that are introduced or provided by one's Guru are to regularize the wandering mind and once mind is regularized the seeker has to let go the framework of technique and go beyond the technique, the mind and the concept itself.

Most of the seekers' try to give importance to the techniques or the framework itself and then get stuck with them. The seeker need to understand and realize that the techniques are only to regularize the mind and once the techniques are mastered or practiced, he/she has to let go, move beyond the techniques, beyond the mind and beyond every concept.

This is what an every individual need to understand and realize this. The framework in terms of methodologies that are introduced are only to guide the individual to a certain concept and the individual has to let go the framework and go beyond it to arrive at a 360 degree perspective. Most individuals give importance to the framework itself and then get stuck with them. Once a concept is mastered they have to let go, and move beyond the concept, framework and the frame. .

Why every framework creates boundaries?

The people who follow certain framework will create their thought process in the beginning in such a way so that they want to stick to that framework, and slowly convert this thought process into a belief system. Once their thought process gets converted into a belief system, they like to stick to their belief system and would easily get irritated when they are challenged on their belief system. Sometimes, the individuals will not hesitate to fight or even kill on the extremes just in protecting their belief systems. This is the main reason that every individual has to be told before itself about the limitations of a framework and to what extent they need to stick to it and when to leave it also. Otherwise, every framework gets converted into a belief system over a period of time and will make the individual narrow minded, prejudiced and judgmental. It is like the metaphor "finger pointing to the moon." Over a period of time people will see the finger and worship the finger and forget completely about the moon. In this metaphor, the truth is the moon while the finger is only a pointer or a framework that is pointing to the moon or directing towards the truth.

This keeps happening so much in our day-to-day professional or personal lives. We create so many frameworks and stick to them. In organizations, innovation gets stuck completely because of attachment to the frameworks or the belief systems people have created over a period of time following those frameworks. 

CONCLUSION

Every innovator breaks frameworks, thinks completely out of the box, after knowing very well what is in the box and brings in a change or sometimes a revolution itself. Let the innovator or the seeker of truth in all of us realize this and break the boundaries that have been created by the framework - let go the framework, let go the frame and let go the concept.

Let the seeker in all of us realize this and break the boundaries that have been created by the framework - let go the framework, let go the frame and let go the concept. By doing so let us travel and enter into that realm of Nothingness that is beyond and is in everything. The seeker does not become the sought. Once the seeker dies the seeker realizes that the seeker was always the sought itself. The seeker is stopping himself/herself from this realization because of the thought process that the seeker and the sought are different. As part of this thought process the seeker keeps worshipping the sought in a frame and focusses more on the process or the framework that is provided to actually let go the process. The process is given to let go the process once the process is completed. The process gets completed the moment the seeker dies. The seeker dies the moment seeking stops. We have to become a seeker not to seek or sought something else, but to realize that the seeker is the sought itself.