First off, I want to thank everyone for showing interest in TRP. Between Face Book, Twitter (@gregorytucker), and this web site, the response has been very exciting. Many of you are interested in the concept of ‘waking up,’ or reconnecting with “The Big Picture.’ This is what there is to recover. Truth exists and what stands between it and you is amnesia. There is nothing to resist but truth, and the job of amnesia is to reject it as if it is gone, or doesn’t exist, so we can defend our rendition of what we want truth to be.
TRP starts with what the truth could be in order to identify how you create duality to defend the fiction defection from truth is possible. Truth reveals that the option to defect from truth is zero, which means duality is a fiction we rely on to pretend defection from truth is possible. TRP makes it possible to identify that suffering goes with the sum of what we do to defend the fiction defection from truth is possible. We suffer because all attempts to defect from truth are doomed to failure. TRP makes it possible for you to see why this is so. Your emotions already indicate that you know, at some pre-conscious level, that because truth is unitary, the option to defect from truth is a parody. No one can defect from truth, and life is the context that displays the sum of all the ways we create duality to defend the fiction defection from truth is possible. Defending the fiction defection from truth is possible underscores the origin of all suffering.
Humor lives on the other side of amnesia because “The Big Picture’ (TBP) reveals that truth sponsors its own rebuttal, featuring us creating duality to defend the fiction we have no tie to it. The joke is on us because it features us pretending duality will work to prove our connection to it doesn’t exist, or if it does, it can be severed. Duality captures the sum of all the ways we defend the fiction it’s possible to exist “outside” of it, based on the false assumption that it has an outside. Amnesia serves to defend the fiction that it is divisible into what it is and something else outside of what it is. Truth has no outside so it isn’t divisible.
TRP starts with what the truth could be, so you can start with the possibility is unitary, and features everything, including, and in particular, how we engage in “The Defection Parody” to pretend we can prove we are ‘running the show,’ independently from it, as if we can render it ‘out of sight and out of mind.’ We suffer because the option to prove we exist independently from it doesn’t exist, and yet time displays how we pursue this goal almost as if our life is at stake. Truth is not the enemy, but the game we play with truth features it as “public enemy number one.” This is the posture most of us assume in this parody, and TRP makes it possible to bring the dynamics of this game into view, so we can see how the game is played. The more we wake up, the faster we realize why everyone and everything is transparent, including the game we play with truth.
I made the shift from conventional psychotherapy to TRP exactly as fast as my own amnesia would allow me to see bits and pieces of ‘The Big Picture,’ which we can abbreviate as TBP. Since I had no conscious idea then what truth might look like, I had no choice but to “peel the onion,” one layer at a time. Amnesia renders the trip home to truth a slow, circuitous process, not because truth doesn’t exist to be accessed, but the game is set up to defend who we pretend to be, and to make the recovery of truth a slow process.
The shift from the lie to the truth happens it fits and starts; clarity followed by rotating in place, going nowhere fast, as if we are stuck in a plateau of awareness that includes only a few lines of a much larger poem. As truth came into focus, it was clear that it existed intact, whole and complete, and that its dynamism included ‘the agony’ that goes with trying to crack what seemed to be a very complex code. If this was a game, then the game featured me playing it to the max.
TRP starts with the truth to identify the game we get to play with it. This is like peeling the onion in reverse, since you don’t go from the lie to the truth; you go from the truth to the lie, and voila, what emerges is TBP in all its glory. This doesn’t preempt amnesia, it reveals the role it plays in the game.
In my case, I was introduced to the works of Wei Wu Wei out of the blue, with no warning that what I was about to read would alter the course of my life. He wrote eight wonderful books which illuminated the architecture of the game truth delivers, featuring us playing a central role in the game. I didn’t know it then, but the organization for TRP was contained in his synthesis of core Buddhist concepts. He provided the outline for TRP, and I, intrigued from that moment on, slowly assembled a way for you to retrieve the way the game works.
In the next installment, I will make the connection between Wei Wu Wei’s understanding of reality, and its connection to human suffering. Suffering is the price we pay for pretending it’s possible to prove truth is false. What’s missing is the context in which this drama takes place. The role of amnesia in this context is to dismiss truth as if it is false so we can pursue what we want truth to be. The disparity between the two takes us to the realm of the extraordinary. Amnesia works to obscure the extraordinary to defend the fiction life is what we insist it is. TRP starts with the extraordinary, asking you to play with it to identify how this reconfigures the point of view you hold about everything, starting with you, and everyone you will ever meet.
