Analysis is Paralysis

We can keep on analyzingly endlessly the causes and motives of our suffering, loneliness and ignorance. But analyis does not help us to come out of them. Analysis is done on the basis of intellectual process which is linear and time bound. It always tries to figure out the cause of the effect. It is in the illusion that by figuring out the cause it can control the effect. It creates the illusion of understanding. Through analysis we think and feel that we have figured out the cause of the problem and by maneuring the cause we can control the effect. Freud says that suffering is caused by one’s unconscious. Marx establishes that economic inequality is the cause of human suffering and alientation. Then how to manouver the unconscious became another herculian task and the struggle to change the economic system created an another havoc for humanity. There is no end to analysis. One situation leads to another endlessly and the analysis does not come to an end. Life moves faster than analysis. Unless something has had happened we cannot perform analysis. It is like doing postmartem on the dead body to know about life. Our entire education system teaches nothing else than the training of doing analysis. It might be helpful for our survival but it does not help much in figuring out life and existence. Krishnamurti has very well said that analysis is paralysis. Rumi says that one cannot wash blood with blood. It helps in establishing theories and philosophies but life does not reside in abstraction. It can discuss about beauty or truth but it cannot make us see the beauty or realize the truth. It does not help us realize our true nature. It puts us in a whirlpool. It sees on the basis of old data. But life is not data. Life is too subtle to be grasped by the crude and aggressive manipulation of the analytical hands. We cannot measure life through the analytical rigor. We cannot get rid of our loneliness by analyzing its causes or motives. Analysis is a blind of itself. It does not know its own mechanism, the way it operates. It does not know its actual standing and position. It always provides a partial view of the totality. It functions in a horizontal ways. To grasp how it fucntions we need to consult with anohter dimension within us that is not horizontal. We need a vertical orientation that can see the horizontal operations of analysis. Unless we do that we will remain trapped by the analytical behaviour of our mind.

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