“Do you believe that’s air you’re breathing now?” Morpheus.
Yeah rudie, I’m looking out of my window, seeing the
glorious sunshine and kinda just appreciating all Nature offers us, the
vastness of the gift that is this world and everything in it. I’m happy just 2
feel the sunlight on my skin, that’s the truth of the matter. Then I think abt
all those whose journeys have finished b4 mine and r no longer on the trod 2
enjoy this experience with I an’ I, and that brings a little sadness. That is
also the truth. Does the new truth cancel out the old truth? I guess it depends
on how u see it. What I do kno is that headz that r considered leading
authorities on this matter r not all in sync on this.
So what is the truth of the matter? Or, 4 that matter, what
is the Truth? See, from ever since, we’re always told abt truth as a gr8 virtue.
Always tell the truth, and all good things will follow u through life. Not
that this is strictly true, as many who spoke the truth ended up dead, or
incarcerated, or persecuted. Sometimes the truth abt speaking the truth is that
many may fear that truth, or even believe that truth 2 b a lie.
Maya Angelo said that facts can b used 2 obscure the truth.
So what makes a truth the truth? Kitaro Nishida took the view that truth starts
when the consciousness differentiates between knower and known, and ends when
they find unity. Is the truth some type
of resolution, let’s look at something, question the hell out of it, and what
we’ve got left is then the truth? Or is the truth just the belief in a fact; X
is a fact, we believe that fact, our belief is the truth? Or, is it maybe there
is one Truth, encompassing a complete system of all true beliefs, and that
whatever we believe 2 b true is merely a part of that whole, complete Truth?
The thing that strikes me is that in all of this, the 1
thing that comes across is the connection between truth and perception; there
is no truth is there is no1 2 believe in it. Is truth then something internal,
and a connection that we have with external things, b they ideas or just the
world as it is? If not, could it b that truth is just the way in which we
interpret the world around us?
Earlier 2day I had a meeting with a man in a suit, full of
info on government statistics, local and central guidelines and correct
procedure policies. During a somewhat energetic discussion, we got on 2 the
subject of truth, how 2 people can describe the same thing in different terms
and what that meant 2 each person. Dude then told me that perception is reality
from that person’s perspective. Cool, there is something 2 that, but then
again, say I look at a situation a certain way, and I think this has some
significance 2 every1 else. I then decide 2 project this, 2 make an assertion
so that all of u can kno what I kno, and I succeed. Now my belief becomes your
truth. Now let’s say that my truth was based on mayb a shaky premise. (a) If I
believe that it is wholeheartedly true, is it a truth? And (b), regardless of
the answer to (a), as I was successfully able to assert my belief 2 all of u, is
that truth now the new reality?
Here’s something 2 bake the noodle: if I kno something is a
lie, and I live that lie, and I tell myself that it’s the truth, and I then
invest myself in this so much that I eventually convince myself that it’s now
the truth, is the original truth still the truth, or is the lie now the truth? And
if the lie is now the truth, wasn’t it always the truth, and the original truth
just a device 2 bring me 2 the truth? Or is this new truth just a truth on top
of the original truth and I am now the creator of the new reality, and if I am
the creator of this reality, what does that make me? Or what if all realities r
a falsehood, and there is only 1 truth, and this truth is obscured by all these
other realities, as the creators of these realities, is no1 then able 2 perceive
the truth?
We have reality TV, social networks, online communities, fraternities,
social groups, membership clubs, politrickal parties and so many other things
that we invest in, all of which make assertions of some kind. Even with our
best efforts, if it’s even true that the individual can indeed shape reality,
how much of our reality did we actually shape, or how much was shaped for us
under the assertion that we shaped it ourselves?
Is reality all abt projection? Jean Baudrillard kicks the
idea of simulacrum around, a simulacrum being a likeness or an image, here’s
how he flips it “The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is
the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.”
Everyday, everywhere I go, some1 is trying 2 tell me
something abt myself, I need stuff, I need 2 do stuff, buy something, believe
in him, vote for this skism, join this group.. I must b missing out big time!
Of course they wld never lie, it’s all true… So if 2 of them r telling me that I
have a particular need, yet each solution offered conflicts with the other, can
both truths co-exist? Wld they cancel each other out? Wld I need 2 seek a
supertruth that accommodates both truths?or is it the projection of those
truths more real than the truth behind them?
What if… and bear with me… what if…. All these things that I’m
being told abt myself and my needs r all lies? What is the purpose? The scale
of the delivery of these wld b something so vast that they wld represent a mega
reality 2 rival all other realities. Mayb this is a mutated Orwellian world, bt
then Orwell himself called it and said, “in a time of deceit telling the truth is a
revolutionary act”. Knowing what happens 2 those who commit revolutionary acts, wld u still tell the truth?
The next time some1 says that they r telling u the truth, what do they mean? What do they want it 2 mean 2 u? Cld b that none of this matters anyway....
The next time some1 says that they r telling u the truth, what do they mean? What do they want it 2 mean 2 u? Cld b that none of this matters anyway....
What is your truth?
…as always answers on a postcard...
p.l.h.o.
Corrd the Seeker
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wow.
Wow. What a beautiful and fascinating post VnP.
This is a subject that I’m currently obsessed with.
What is Truth? I sought for the answer is many wild places for many years.
Here’s where I’m at with it now….
If I was seeking truth I was really only seeking my Self. I am Truth.
Or as my Teacher taught me… if Truth is eternal and limitless it must be here right now…..not something to be created or found at a future date. It must be here and now that we can KNOW it, and therefore Be it.
Our Creator established Truth. It is the Truth which sets us free (from our illusions) as J taught us long ago. We don’t create truth anymore that we can create our selves. It is already done…just waiting for us to remember it or recognize what’s been here all the while. What I am seeking for when I think I am looking for truth is something …in this vast world of shifting dreams, fantasies, ego-mind and all its conflicts and projections… that does not change. I am seeking for what is permanent in a world of impermanence as the Buddha described. Nothing in this world lasts. All things come and go….Is there anything here that doesn’t come and go? Yes… Praise Jah! I Am…..The core of my Being. The Timeless Self that witnesses experiences in time and space coming and going including the body....but is untouched by them. Eastern spirituality calls it Emptiness. The no-mind state. Purity. Holiness. Oneness. The Most High who dwells within… is That Which Never Changes. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. What else can be counted on but That? To rediscover Him, to be one with Him is to realize Truth and peace, joy, freedom, love and everlasting life.
All these words, words, words……enough! All they can do is point to IT as the poet Rumi notes. Now let us retreat into Silence for a while and be one with our Love
Peace, Steph