Posts Tagged ‘Buddhism’

There were times when life seemed more dreamlike than real, but in defense of the assumption the self is real, or must be real for me to be real, these thoughts were dismissed as “unscientific,” and even delusional. In spite of resistance, aka amnesia and trance, I was aware that ‘clients’ relied on suffering to portray ‘not okay people,’ convincingly. Since I didn’t want to know I was doing the same thing, too, even these insights were dismissed to preserve the assumption that right now is real, and not a dream, and that ‘suffering’ is sufficient to maintain the assumption that people are victims, enduring their difficult lives. I noticed, at some preconscious level, that clients said they wanted relief from their suffering, but when you began to meddle with the mechanism of suffering, resistance said, in effect, “I need my suffering to anchor the self as a real, less than okay self.” In my own unconscious state, I perceived this as a “strange paradox”: they pay good money to find relief from suffering at the conscious level of functioning, but the unconscious sends a very different message: “my suffering defines me, and even though I hate it, hating it keeps it in place as objectively awful.”

Once a client locks into the conclusion the self they have is ‘damaged,’ life provides the setting to live this assumption for the duration, if need be. The idea we are who we insist we are depends on the assumption the self, as we define it, exists as proof we are who we insist we are, including a ‘damaged person.’ The implication is a shocker: defending the assumption we are who the self says we are takes precedence over everything, including well being, happiness, love, and a life that is relatively trouble free. Suffering works to defend the assumption the self is real, and that ‘a suffering self’ is the epitome of the real. Apparently, the experience of suffering is secondary to the defense of the assumption the self is real.
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The problem with truth, so to speak, is that, apparently, it is 180 degrees out of phase with what we insist it is. There is what the truth is, and then there is what we do as a team to defend what we insist it is. Waking up includes making the shift from what we insist it is, back to what it is, so we can look at how we work as a team to defend what we insist it is. I call this process “The Recovery Process.” This is the work I do now: I assist individuals to reconnect with the truth so they can identify how they fill time pretending they can prove truth is false. Suffering is the clue it isn’t possible to prove truth is false. The evidence mounts that there is a huge connection between truth and our determination to prove truth is false. How much do we suffer by defending the fiction we can prove truth is false? How much do we use suffering as proof for the fiction truth is false?

It makes sense to dismiss Wei Wu Wei’s synthesis of the Buddhist view of reality because it is 180 degree out of phase with the view of reality the majority of us defend as “the truth.” He gets to be called ‘that crazy man,’ or that ‘iconoclastic heretic,’ or whatever epithet works to ignore the possibility that what he has to say has to do with the truth. The truth is, we don’t want to know what the truth is. The truth is we hate truth because it always obligates us to revise views we treat as sacred, like the sun rotates around the earth. When Copernicus said this wasn’t true, he almost lost his life for challenging the prevailing view of truth. As I write, the haploid collider at Cern intends to smash particles to look for the Higgs Boson, a particle given the nick name of “The God Particle” because, if found, it will result in a single equation that explains the ‘mechanics of the universe.’ We are on the threshold, perhaps, of finding the elusive, “Unified Field Theory” that has escaped description, so far.

Truth exists outside of current imagination because truth and imagination are part of a single process. Imagination expands the more truth reveals itself, and the more truth reveals itself, the faster imagination expands. Right now, imagination is waiting for the next shoe to fall. Historically, this is another moment of ‘breathlessness’; part fear, part hope, and part suspicion that we have a date with truth, no matter how much truth runs the rate at which it reveals itself to us. We are suspended in time, waiting to discover why we are only right about something for this moment in time. Surely most of what is ‘right’ today, will be exposed as false soon enough.
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