Life feels like one big state of confusion. We wander through, hands out in front of us as if in a dark room, feeling our way through. Making it up as we go along. Eventually forming conclusions not because we know, but because we fear the never-ending confusion and fear that inevitably surrounds it.
This state seems to be the default. Living through fear, fear of not knowing. We build up our personalities around these fears. And for good reason, at least initially. It’s a way of protecting our self. We go through certain experiences that throw us into fear, then confusion follows. Then a conclusion is formed that’ll protect us from that fear.
These conclusions differ from person to person. Some more based in reality than others. But they all stem from an original experience or series of experiences. Most times being formed at a younger age, which is why some of our beliefs and fears can be so irrational. They began in a baby or child’s brain just trying to protect itself. Grasping for an explanation of the experience so it can avoid that initial shock next time.
As we go through life these experiences layer over and over them selfs with new ones. But because of these original conclusions that are reached, all experiences thereafter are tainted in the light of that certain fear or worldview. Moving further and further away from reality, if not realised. Creating a world of fear, with the multitude of beliefs and opinions that follow.
So what’s the alternative? Well, you can say better conclusions need to be reached. Things that align more with reality, are beneficial and help in the long run. To reanalyse past traumas, with a new, more realistic light, can make things a lot better psychologically. But only to an extent. It just repeats the same problem as the last. Living through fear. Grasping for solutions. Whether they are “more based in reality” or not, it’s all the same.
A middle ground has to be found. As explained at the start, life seems confusing. Like we don’t know anything, that things are just happening around us. But could this be an illusion? An illusion built from fear itself, for survival. Maybe this state isn’t "confusion", but just reality in its truest form. No explanations, no solutions, no conclusions but just nothing and simultaneously everything. We mistakenly think this initial “not knowing” is bad, that something needs to fill this void. Understandably because all living creatures are born to want to survive and fear is the initial strategy for this. But what if this initial state isn’t not knowing, but knowing everything. Seeing reality the way it is. A fluxing, constantly changing system, that seems from the perspective of fear, like confusion or unknown. But is from another angle just existence itself, existing. The middle ground is found through having one foot in fear, the “beneficial explanations” and the other in this unknowing state.
So what’s good about this state we are most times desperately trying to run away from? Well, it’s the truest form of reality. It’s where all things come from. Hence, holds all the information to everything. To know and understand it, is to know everything. By this, I mean we often get lost in the voice in our heads, the concepts and ideas we conceive. To be in this state of unknowing/knowing is what makes us see these pitfalls. To see the games we play with ourselves. To stop projecting, and just observe things the way they are. No ideas or beliefs changing the way things are, changing what the world really is. Things just are. You don't have to constantly be labelling, explaining and forming patterns out of everything that's thought and seen.
Rather than projecting personal worldview’s and opinions on the people and things around us. Which, rather ironically, brings them right back. Creating a world that initially began in our brain. Causing us to experience exactly what we personally believe. A lot of times these beliefs, and explanations are unknown to us. Eventually putting us in danger or repeat bad experiences if unchecked and unknown.
Going through life, we tend to blame other people for all wrongdoings that go on. Despite that oftentimes the things that happen can be found to originate from our own doing. Not at all times, but most. We plead ignorance because we’ve committed to a certain worldview that doesn't involve things being our fault. It could be because we're going off the past trauma of when we were a baby or child. When there was no control, when things weren’t, at most times, our fault. The complexity of our brain is nowhere near fully understood, but to think it doesn't know what's going on, that it doesn't know what you're doing, that you don't know what you're doing is just crazy.
But all this doesn’t change the fact that you do need to go out in the world and sometimes commit to certain conclusions. It’s only human, and it’s something we automatically do. We have to, or else we wouldn’t properly function. The trick is to never get lost in these conclusions as if they’re more than just our brain. As if they’re all of reality. Because they aren’t, they’re just a perspective. A perspective among many others.
Since our brain loves to grab onto certain conclusions, make yours the conclusion that there is no conclusion. Believe in nothing. And you’ll be open to seeing everything.
This attitude and perspective will open up a whole new world of information that’s been there the whole time. That your brain has somewhere deep down always known. How do you think your body functions? Your heart is constantly pumping blood, brain shooting off Neuron’s, and body constantly healing itself. You’re something that knows a lot, that beholds amazing knowledge. It may sound illogical to think we have the actual knowledge of certain things like this. But it’s you, just because you can’t consciously comprehend it, doesn’t mean you don’t “know” on some level. You’ve just been too distracted in your constant grasping, and fear, and fear of fear, that what reality is is constantly being clouded. Drop the act and just observe.
This state seems to be the default. Living through fear, fear of not knowing. We build up our personalities around these fears. And for good reason, at least initially. It’s a way of protecting our self. We go through certain experiences that throw us into fear, then confusion follows. Then a conclusion is formed that’ll protect us from that fear.
These conclusions differ from person to person. Some more based in reality than others. But they all stem from an original experience or series of experiences. Most times being formed at a younger age, which is why some of our beliefs and fears can be so irrational. They began in a baby or child’s brain just trying to protect itself. Grasping for an explanation of the experience so it can avoid that initial shock next time.
As we go through life these experiences layer over and over them selfs with new ones. But because of these original conclusions that are reached, all experiences thereafter are tainted in the light of that certain fear or worldview. Moving further and further away from reality, if not realised. Creating a world of fear, with the multitude of beliefs and opinions that follow.
So what’s the alternative? Well, you can say better conclusions need to be reached. Things that align more with reality, are beneficial and help in the long run. To reanalyse past traumas, with a new, more realistic light, can make things a lot better psychologically. But only to an extent. It just repeats the same problem as the last. Living through fear. Grasping for solutions. Whether they are “more based in reality” or not, it’s all the same.
A middle ground has to be found. As explained at the start, life seems confusing. Like we don’t know anything, that things are just happening around us. But could this be an illusion? An illusion built from fear itself, for survival. Maybe this state isn’t "confusion", but just reality in its truest form. No explanations, no solutions, no conclusions but just nothing and simultaneously everything. We mistakenly think this initial “not knowing” is bad, that something needs to fill this void. Understandably because all living creatures are born to want to survive and fear is the initial strategy for this. But what if this initial state isn’t not knowing, but knowing everything. Seeing reality the way it is. A fluxing, constantly changing system, that seems from the perspective of fear, like confusion or unknown. But is from another angle just existence itself, existing. The middle ground is found through having one foot in fear, the “beneficial explanations” and the other in this unknowing state.
So what’s good about this state we are most times desperately trying to run away from? Well, it’s the truest form of reality. It’s where all things come from. Hence, holds all the information to everything. To know and understand it, is to know everything. By this, I mean we often get lost in the voice in our heads, the concepts and ideas we conceive. To be in this state of unknowing/knowing is what makes us see these pitfalls. To see the games we play with ourselves. To stop projecting, and just observe things the way they are. No ideas or beliefs changing the way things are, changing what the world really is. Things just are. You don't have to constantly be labelling, explaining and forming patterns out of everything that's thought and seen.
Rather than projecting personal worldview’s and opinions on the people and things around us. Which, rather ironically, brings them right back. Creating a world that initially began in our brain. Causing us to experience exactly what we personally believe. A lot of times these beliefs, and explanations are unknown to us. Eventually putting us in danger or repeat bad experiences if unchecked and unknown.
Going through life, we tend to blame other people for all wrongdoings that go on. Despite that oftentimes the things that happen can be found to originate from our own doing. Not at all times, but most. We plead ignorance because we’ve committed to a certain worldview that doesn't involve things being our fault. It could be because we're going off the past trauma of when we were a baby or child. When there was no control, when things weren’t, at most times, our fault. The complexity of our brain is nowhere near fully understood, but to think it doesn't know what's going on, that it doesn't know what you're doing, that you don't know what you're doing is just crazy.
But all this doesn’t change the fact that you do need to go out in the world and sometimes commit to certain conclusions. It’s only human, and it’s something we automatically do. We have to, or else we wouldn’t properly function. The trick is to never get lost in these conclusions as if they’re more than just our brain. As if they’re all of reality. Because they aren’t, they’re just a perspective. A perspective among many others.
Since our brain loves to grab onto certain conclusions, make yours the conclusion that there is no conclusion. Believe in nothing. And you’ll be open to seeing everything.
This attitude and perspective will open up a whole new world of information that’s been there the whole time. That your brain has somewhere deep down always known. How do you think your body functions? Your heart is constantly pumping blood, brain shooting off Neuron’s, and body constantly healing itself. You’re something that knows a lot, that beholds amazing knowledge. It may sound illogical to think we have the actual knowledge of certain things like this. But it’s you, just because you can’t consciously comprehend it, doesn’t mean you don’t “know” on some level. You’ve just been too distracted in your constant grasping, and fear, and fear of fear, that what reality is is constantly being clouded. Drop the act and just observe.
