Detect the bull-shit now!

How has the human race survived so far? You would think, if you listen to the gloom-mongers, and preachers of disaster, that we are stupid and incapable of doing anything intelligent whatsoever.

But if you open your eyes and look around, what do you see? You will see what you have been programmed to see. Human programming operates through the same processes as a modern computer, and that is - Information in = information out. In other words whatever goes into the computer (brain) as information, is what informs the computer of it's software reality. The computer (brain) is now programmed to operate using the information it has been given. It will see what it has been programmed to see.

If I was a person that never went out and watched Tv all day. I would probably imagine that it is very dangerous out there and would never go out. I go out allot, in fact I travel all over London and I do not see murder and violence everywhere. What I do see are people being people and even though I have been doing yoga now for a few years I still cannot look inside of a persons head. I can surmise by looking at their facial expression and posture how they must be feeling but in all honesty that is about as far as it goes.

Well 'we' are doing yoga so 'we' are ok aren't 'we'?

'We' are above it all aren't 'we'?

Ahem!!

So all we need to find out is - What is the truth?

We could put it more succinctly and ask - Is there any such thing as objective truth?

Even simpler, we could say - Can I trust my eyes and my ears to see and hear reality?

And there we are faced with another question - What is reality?

What I find is that if I sit up straight and breathe in and out through my nose for a period of time (unspecified) I start to look at the nature of my thoughts and my thinking in general in a different light. I begin to see that my thoughts are exactly that, i.e. (just) my thoughts. And then I usually deduce that some - but not all - of my thinking is rubbish :))

As I continue to breathe I feel my brain getting and loving the oxygen I am giving it via breathing deeper. This feeling takes me beyond thought and into a sense of enlightened experience. I look at the world in a fresh way. My mind is not clouded with my prejudices and habitual jumping to conclusions cynical way of thinking.

I like it - That's why I do it - Everyday :))