Is there a possibility to detach from what is given, as history exposes or cultural norms shape our identity? Is there a possibility to discover something which is not cultivated in a projection of history and present? Do we immerse in cultural moorings so as to forget who we are? Or all real are cultural, cultivated, earned here and now? Possibility is always a process of radical shift from its initial embeddiness or possibility is what is possible to actualize? These are the questions which remain there at its place. Because, some questions are invaluably unquenchable enough to be answered. Simple and fundamental questions remain alive, its fundamental characteristics make it impossible to actualize. Like death which remains a question for one who anticipates to die but never experience the "status of nothingness". For Sartre death is not real, not experienced by self. It is merely a possibility which never gets actualized in experience. Analogously some questions remain alive and beautiful as ever, though every quest of solving it is a never ending task of consciousness. This is what we know as a live spirit which create some meaning for existence, however it has nothing to do with the meaning.
Student: I want to excel in my life. Over the years, my graph of success is achieving a new height. I am doing hard work to become one of the smartest and richest persons on the Earth. Teacher: Wonderful! Who is achiever and what is achieved? Student: I am the achiever. My name and fame are shining day by day. Teacher: Who is this ‘I’? What is the material by which it is produced? Student: I is the ego which is the agent achieving successes and facing failures. Teacher: Whether ego is real or imaginary? Student: It is made of name, form, and function. Teacher: Whether name, form, and function are eternal? Student: No, they are changing. Teacher: Anything changes does it exist? Whether these are real or merely fictitious images appearing and disappearing before the sightscreen of mind? Student: They are the images constructing my identity as a person. Teacher: Well said! What is the stuff by which these images are made of? Who is maker and what is made? Student: They ar...
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