Everybody sees things differently, and everybody thinks they see things as they are. People with something to sell-- commercially, politically, ecclesiastically, personally...-- use the power of persuasion and deception to secure agreement among their clientele, but it is a charade, a game, a lie. And it robs us of our fundamental/foundational right to our own point of view. One of the oldest Old Testament commandments that failed to make the Top Ten states: "Thou Shalt Not Remove Thy Neighbor's Landmark!" Which is violated in 10,000 (A number representing infinity) ways every day. What sets "Thy Neighbor" off from everyone else is their point of view. Their way of seeing. Their way of interpreting/evaluating the world and their place in it. To attempt to convince them of how they should see instead of enabling them to see-- and appreciate-- the multitudinous possibilities of recognizing the multiplicity within the perceptive range of options available to everyone at any time, is to violate their inalienable right to their own opinions regarding what's what and how things are in each situation as it arises, and also robs them of their responsibility for wrestling with the contradictions, polarities, paradoxes, contraries, etc., that are inherent in the work to say anything about the truth of everything, in that everything is both this way and that way and that way over there at the same time all the time everywhere, and nothing definitive and absolute can be said about any of it ever. It is all like the spirit that is like the wind that blows where it will and cannot be pinned down, or penned in, or locked up, or nailed in place just as it is forever. And a perspective that fails to take itself into account is a facade.
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Thank you Jim! This is exactly why, I am drawn by the “oneness” because the truth seen from anybody’s perspective can be unique and likely very different from the truth seen from another’s point of view.
But there must be something in the essence, the core of all different versions of truth, which is the real truth (the metaphor I like to understand this with- is a mountain peak, which you see from all directions surrounded by your own unique view, but it is the same peak everyone sees from all around).
If only it were easy enough to align with this truth, always see the one mountain peak- regardless of the differences in all our superficial views, there could be more harmony and peace among us.
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Reality is only how we see things here and now, and shift-shapes between blinks into how we see things here/now, no, here/now… and can never be absolute, frozen forever in time and place because everything is in motion, and the times, they are a-changing all the time. And THAT is the oneness that holds it all together, and laughter is the key to being able to dance the dance that laughs and dances through all times and places at the very idea of taking any of it seriously when it is all swaying with the music of the spheres and becoming something else all the time. Something new, something different, something that has never been and will never be again, me and you and all the rest of us everywhere always and forever, what a wonder it all is! And we kill each other for not being like we want each other to be. It’s a riot. No one would believe it. It’s a dream/nightmare, an amazing, spellbinding, mesmerizing, majestic production that we all are a part of–and seen from space, we know it, but the closer in we get, the more the cracks appear and the differences shine through along with fear, anger, greed, hatred, vengeance, revenge, etc., and we see some guy in New York killing three Palestinian students because they were Palestinian, and in Palestine, we see Palestinians killing a Palestinian woman because she was a woman who stepped outside the boundaries laid down by the Prophet, and, of course, had to die, and I hate that this is where we are, that it comes to this, that we refuse to do better than this, and long for the long view from space where everything appears to be just fine and working beautifully together to produce the balance and harmony we long for but refuse to do the work of serving it with our life all our life long.
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You are right. It is sad and frustrating. The human condition is driven by so many differences and emotions like fear, hatred and violence- the higher truths of love, kindness, empathy and oneness take a back seat.
As individuals, we can do what we can. Perhaps sharing this is all we can do for now. Everything is in a constant movement, perhaps this is our reason to hold out any hope, because in such a situation, a change is the only thing we can look forward to.
Please do not give up, as someone who can see more clearly the reality underneath all this mess and chaos, you and your words contribute towards that change, even if it may not appear much at all right now.
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Giving up, quitting, isn’t an option. Those who see can’t help seeing, and they certainly cannot stop seeing, and have to have no will in the matter of the impact their seeing has or has not. We just see and say what we see in ways that articulate what we have to say as well as we are able, You are certainly doing a marvelous job at that, and I’ve been at it for so long now, I can’t remember when I started, I think it was probably 5 years into the ministry, and certainly by the 10th year, so that by now, it is just what I do. Like-minded-ness is a good thing to find and to share, and as we speak, we gather about us those who can hear what we are saying, and that is an on-going joy along the way, buoying one another up, helping one another along, in our Sisyphean task of saying what is to be said, doing what is to be done, no matter what, and on we go through all that unfolds before us all along the way!
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Thank you for your kind words! Please do not underestimate the power of each individual who is living the right way, I believe each one of us by simply understanding and living with the right attitude already makes a difference.
Not everyone can do everything, so we should probably be content if we can do well whatever we are suited for, even if it is just contemplating and encouraging more awareness. It is not a minor contribution- the spark which can potentially ignite a change!
Certainly you have made a difference and will continue to make it over the next many years, whether or not it appears very obvious.
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The old Taoist said, “Do your work and step back. Let nature take its course.”
In another place he said, “… and let the outcome be the outcome.”
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