Concepts are overly subject to their common definitions. We try so hard to formalize our understanding of things, put boxes around what they mean so that we can be sure about where they are in our mind - we forget that everything is interconnected and our definitions only limit our understanding.
When something is caused, all and everything before it was its cause.
We wrap our thoughts in these packages and to keep them in order we give them values: Good and bad, right and wrong, for or against me, worth it or not. But isn't the large majority of our confusions and frustrations based on our inability to free our thoughts and feelings from these packages? It's not worth it for me to convince you if this is true, think back.
Proving does not prove anything at all.
But what if we were to live life with our thoughts flowing freely from these packages? How ever would we deal with the chaos? How ever could we teach our kids right from wrong without such labels, or know where to focus our attention without the values worth it and not? Well, I can only begin that exploration here, I shouldn't say more about what this may entail until I have experienced what this will indeed mean. But might I at least start by suggesting that the answer is exactly in my example?
Perhaps, just as with children, where we spend their early years curbing their actions around concrete directions, until we feel they are at a level of maturity where we can learn to deal with grey decisons with broad values and morals, like the golden rule; perhaps when adults reach a level of maturity, where golden rules and shoulds and shoulds not no longer satisfy us intellectually, this is when we need a more personal approach. Perhaps at this point we have to finally not be lazy, and live our lives considering each case, each example, in its very uniqueness, and prescribe not an out the box solution to our gloom, not a doctrine handed to us from the ancients, not values and morals handed to us from our friends and inner circles, but perhaps all of these things together. Perhaps we have to approach our day to day lives with the totality of human knowledge rather than small convenient segments.
When we are free from binding our life problems with mere values, we'll be free from binding our life solutions with mere values. Anyway, that would be a start.
When something is caused, all and everything before it was its cause.
We wrap our thoughts in these packages and to keep them in order we give them values: Good and bad, right and wrong, for or against me, worth it or not. But isn't the large majority of our confusions and frustrations based on our inability to free our thoughts and feelings from these packages? It's not worth it for me to convince you if this is true, think back.
Proving does not prove anything at all.
But what if we were to live life with our thoughts flowing freely from these packages? How ever would we deal with the chaos? How ever could we teach our kids right from wrong without such labels, or know where to focus our attention without the values worth it and not? Well, I can only begin that exploration here, I shouldn't say more about what this may entail until I have experienced what this will indeed mean. But might I at least start by suggesting that the answer is exactly in my example?
Perhaps, just as with children, where we spend their early years curbing their actions around concrete directions, until we feel they are at a level of maturity where we can learn to deal with grey decisons with broad values and morals, like the golden rule; perhaps when adults reach a level of maturity, where golden rules and shoulds and shoulds not no longer satisfy us intellectually, this is when we need a more personal approach. Perhaps at this point we have to finally not be lazy, and live our lives considering each case, each example, in its very uniqueness, and prescribe not an out the box solution to our gloom, not a doctrine handed to us from the ancients, not values and morals handed to us from our friends and inner circles, but perhaps all of these things together. Perhaps we have to approach our day to day lives with the totality of human knowledge rather than small convenient segments.
When we are free from binding our life problems with mere values, we'll be free from binding our life solutions with mere values. Anyway, that would be a start.
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