The limitations of Analysis and the necessity of Insight
Why is analysis important? It is important because it is needed for practical purposes. We use analysis to build a house, a car and a spaceship. It helps us prepare the earth to grow food.
Why is analysis a hurdle?
It is a hurdle because it goes beyond its limits and is used to understand the mind, the thought process. It is used to find solutions for problems relating to ourselves, our worries, our anxieties, our depressions and our sorrow.
Why analysis cannot be used to understand oneself?
Because analysis is a time bound process in which you cut down an object or a system into smaller pieces and try to understand the smaller pieces over time. Then you put the smaller pieces together to understand the bigger system and its properties over time.
Why should that be a problem?
It is not a problem for practical things like understanding atoms, fluids, and human body and diseases. It is problematic when you try to understand the human mind and ego and self. The mind or the self is the analyzer when it comes to practical things, and it works because the analyzer and the analyzed can be thought of as relatively independent and the analyzer does not interfere with the system analyzed. But understanding the self, will create a contradiction because analyzer will be the same as the analyzed. Hence analysis will fail every time and it has been happening for centuries.
So, what is the solution?
The whole process of analysis has to come to an end at the level of the mind. How will that happen? Once the mind becomes aware of the problem with analysis, the mind may drop the whole process of analysis. Then there will be insight into the whole process immediately and not into its pieces or parts. Pieces or parts will bring in the analyzer back and the whole cycle will begin again. It is necessary that analyzer subsides or in other words an insight takes place where the whole issue of the analyzer and the analyzed is seen.
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