Unlearn Everything?
Would you dare unlearn everything you know?
What would that mean?
Our beliefs are based solely on our perspective. Everything that we’ve ever experienced has come to us only through our own sensory mechanisms. And all of these sensory experiences were interpreted and learned by…? You; only you. This means all of the experiential data is intrinsically biased, doesn’t it? How could it not be? Fundamentally, this leaves everything that could possibly be known to be circumspect. Biased by the perceivers’ perspective and beliefs.
Is there anything that you can emphatically state, which intrinsically lies outside of your experience of it?
Everything is a sum of its parts. Of which those parts are also a sum of its parts.
So one thing is actually a compilation of many things.
Just as many things may be viewed as one thing.
The perception of matter is perceived by the perceiver. You and I cannot have the same experience. We cannot experience the same sunset. My perception is based solely on my perspective and experiences.
Are yours and my experiences similar? Who is to say?
Can we experience the same table? Some would say yes; some would say no.
So what is the point of all of this?
Our life decisions are based on judgments made through our personal subjective truths.
All of these judgments and truths are biased by your personal singular experience.
Is there something to learn from this?
Knowledge is intrinsically biased, or to put it another way, flawed. What you know to be true isn’t necessarily true for me.
To bring all of this together there is another question that needs to be answered. What is experiencing?
You are two things.
You’re a spiritual being having a biological experience and a biological being having a spiritual experience. Both of these are true. Both are happening simultaneously. Your biology is also simultaneously two things. You are a biological singularity which is also intrinsically connected and dependent on all biology and matter. Matter that is perpetually consuming itself. Birth to death, we survive off of the consumption of our biological essence. We all take a turn. Sometimes we are the meat; sometimes the carnivore. Sometimes the omnivore; sometimes the plants and soil. A perpetual cycle.
Although we all have a singular experience with its own intrinsic truth, we are also a larger absolute truth. You are a fundamental and vital component of all matter. At this level, without you, everything would cease to be. This could be further reduced to absolute oneness. This could be, and has been referred to, by many names and ideas, which are all correct. The words don’t matter. It’s the recognition of what you are, it’s indivisibility, and oneness that never changes.
What would happen if we made decisions detached from our individual personal perspective? This perspective is threatening because within this perspective, we let go of what we believe to be intrinsically true about ourselves and the world we live in. We lose ourselves. But do we really?
The larger truth is when you begin to make decisions from your larger self, you come into alignment with your root essence. This is the place where effort subsides and you encounter the miraculous.
Isn’t that what we are looking for?
Darlene and Tom
May 22, 2016 @ 6:38 pm
Love to read your heart, Tim. It’s a beautiful day.
Tim Trudeau
May 23, 2016 @ 8:57 pm
Thanks Mom,
It’s nice to share
Love you…