Saturday, January 01, 2005

 

I'd like my change please...

Each individual is different.

And each moment, that same individual is different from what it was the previous moment. For this simple reason, any hope at defining an absolute view of reality is doomed before its utterance. Life changes. It grows and learns. Situations change. There are so many variables...

The worst thing for a person to do is attach oneself to such a permanent idea- to such a dogma. Because then he feels compelled to live in accordance with, and worse, to defend, something unchanging, in a world and a consciousness that most definitely is changing. And as the new clues come in- as the new lessons present themselves- he turns away- he turns inward on his rigid worldview as he turns his back on the truth of maybe- the truth outside oneself- the truth waiting on the other side of a crisis of faith.

If one's truth doesn’t change as he changes and as everything else changes, there are 3 possibilities.
One: he has found absolute truth and is now an all knowing diety.
Two: He is in some statistically impossible lockstep with the infinite changing variables of existence
Three: he has taken an oversimplified and dogmatic view of reality which allows him to avoid the daunting task of learning the lessons found in the admittedly often uncomfortable chaos.

What do you think?

Comments:
All non-religious human activities seek to bend the universe to the distorting service of self; the truly religious individual seeks to identify the self with the universe and then to dedicate the activities of this unified self to the service of the universe family of fellow beings
 
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