'The' truth as far as my understanding will allow is that 'I' am living in a conditioned reality. That is; everything that has happened to me in this life has shaped me psychologically, physically, and any other way you can think of in to the person that I am today. That to me is a very profound realisation.
'Truth' is something that appears to hold relevance for 'us'. This wall is blue is true for the person seeing the wall as blue, someone else may see the wall a green. Who has the 'real' truth. For millions of people on the planet Jesus is the true saviour, for millions of others it is the Buddha. Who has the 'real' truth?
'How' can we be honest when we don't really know what the truth is? When we hear people telling lies all the time or evading questions how can we dare to be honest? Why would we want to be honest in a world that doesn't seem to value honesty? I am cold is being honest when I am feeling the cold, but it wont have any relevance to someone nearby who doesn't feel cold they may think we are deluded!
We 'need' to be honest with ourselves is all. I am lying to this person is an honest statement of truth to yourself. Hmmm it seems to get more complicated. The old 'Johnny Cash record from the 60's says, 'It really doesn't matter if the truth was there, it was the cut of his clothes and the length of his hair. And the lonely voice of youth cries, what is truth?'
Oh why oh why do we lie? 'Tell the truth and shame the devil', has a great relevance to this. The devil being the ego wants to deceive and protect itself in the great illusion of it's grandiosity etc. To admit to not being quite as good at something as you pretend to be has this quality of exposure and revelation, transparency etc.
Well I thought I would ramble on this subject for a bit, feel free to sneer in disdain,
or laugh derisively in my direction if you must.
I read this recently; 'It has been suggested from the beginning of meditative practises that the mind is the final obstacle to enlightenment. The mind's major by-product thought must be harnessed so that in the end the mind can be re-programmed, not just of content but of the way it operates as well. It follows that to undo all unnecessary tension frees the mind from it's programmed thoughts. This will make the task of ego-mind re programming (transcendence) easier. In order to clear the mind of thought each sensate muscle group should be cleared of tension or at least reduced'.
This is from a book called, 'Undoing yourself with energised meditations'. By Christopher Hyatt.
Well I seem to remember that yoga asana'a are specifically for this purpose.
'When we are very very still and the mind is very very quiet, do we still exist'?
'When a man/woman is ready for enlightenment they will hear the sound of one hand clapping, have you ever heard it? What is enlightenment anyway?' Overheard in a West london yoga class.
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