Whenever someone finds out that I have realised the truth, the first question that I invariably get asked is, “What’s it like to be in the truth realised state, and how does it feel?” While this appears to be a simple question it is more difficult to answer than you might think!
At the end of this chapter, and throughout this book, I will attempt to give you a sense of what the truth realised state is, and what it feels like. But before I can do that, we need to look at why it’s so difficult to directly explain this state with words and dualistic language alone.
We are taught, from our earliest days, to think in a linear step A, followed by step B, followed by step C fashion. And because of this early training our minds have
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Then as the early humans progressed, they developed a series of grunts and gestures to communicate with each other. And over time formal languages evolved. But the languages that evolved are not present back at the point of the Source. The Source is the base, the beginning, the creative starting point of all existence. Languages and communication only came into existence further down the road. So trying to put a state without words, into words, becomes a mind boggling task! The best that can be done are analogies and paradoxical statements that hopefully give an impression of what it’s like.
The analogy of the electrical power plant might help to make this point clearer. Electricity is created at a power station, and travels via power lines to your home. If you plug a radio into a power outlet in your house then you will be able to hear music playing. But back at the power station the music can’t be heard, even though the source that generates the music is present.
Another problem with trying to explain the truth realised state, is that the mind must be engaged in order to describe something. This is necessary because it is the separating mind that allows us to see the world as a collection of separate objects. And without that separation a description becomes impossible.
In the truth realised state there is no separation, everything is one. So if I engage my mind and create separation, then I am essentially splitting up the state of
The experience of being literally heard and understood deeply, in some personally vital sphere, has its own kind of impact- whether of relief, of something at last making sense, a feeling or inner connection or
Too view language as if it were an object devoid of its social context would not be seeing language for its creation and use, language is used at its full potential when spoken, language is so important to humans, we use language to express, to think and communicate within the world we live. Language has changed over time, it is thought that at one time we had one original language that was spoken, and “as different human groups spread across the world and communicated only with each other, the original language changed in different ways in different places” (Gee, P,. & Hayes, E. (2011). pg 8), because of these changes, and socialisation of different humans, we now have many diverse human languages. Language has changed and will continue to
I’m bound into a vicious cycle of obscurity so deep that the choice was luminous. I seem less than myself, but at the same time, I can feel relaxed- even self-righteous, believing that I, a mere mortal, am immanent within this existing plane… And, I ask, Why must we face reality and not become lost in the gray abyss of our mind when it returns to the dawn of darkness from whence it came? Truly, it is comforting there…
Unlike linear thinking, non-linear thinking is never tied to a pattern based upon prior experiences; however, non-linear thinking strengthens are experience and expertise the sub consciousness or unconsciousness uses during the thin-slicing process. Non-linear thinking often relates to uncertainty and the ability to have multiple outcomes. The non-linear framework accepts uncertainty and complexity as natural elements. The characteristics of a non-linear system can be describes as interdependent and non-proportional (Gingrich, 1998, pp. 72-73).
People try to understand the world through perception of experiences that they encounter. These encounters include either living through the experience first hand or the experience being conveyed by another person. Our perception weeds out main ideas from those experiences deeming them realistic and if so labels them truths. However, our perception of the obtained truth from those experiences is not always credible because as a recipient we are restricted to the amount of experience we can retain. Meaning the perceptions of the labeled truths is a result of our translation of incomplete experiences into new perception resulting from what he or she could retain from the original experience. Those incomplete experiences give rise to new
A rush of realization
i. First Stage: Separation is when the individual will be going through a series of symbolic rituals which will strip them from their identity, in addition to spate the individual from their previous position. Some of these rituals can include physical modifications or challenge. An example could include getting a tattoo or having to go hunting.
thoughts we need to feel the intensity of the trigger otherwise we are not able to describe and be
Where we are now could be a reality that exists on its own. Not something that exists in our, or someone else’s heads. A mind-independent reality. If this is the case, we should be able to, theoretically, find a way to break out of here.”
A metaphor of awareness for reality becoming self-evident, is the word, “Dawn”. When people thinks about reality becoming self-evident the word that always comes to mind is Dawn. The meaning of Dawn in literature, means awakening or awareness. When one has become manifested in reality, the thing they have realized is something they have not known before. My own experience with being self aware has been difficult to deal, because it deals with a loss of a friend.
“Like the sun, it is essentially bright, perfect, and complete. Although vast and limitless, it is merely covered by the layered clouds of the five skandhas. Like a lamp inside a jar, its light cannot shine. Further, to use the bright sun as a metaphor, it is as if the clouds and mists of this world were to arise together in all the eight directions, so that the world would become dark. How could the sun ever be extinguished? […] The pure mind possessed by all sentient beings is also like this, in simply being covered by the layered clouds of discriminative thinking, false thoughts, and ascriptive views. If one can just just distinctly maintain awareness of the mind and not produce false thoughts, then the Dharma sun of nirvana will be naturally manifested.”
Language is one of the main things that sets us apart from other animals. Why is that? How does language make us so different from other animals? Why does it make us so different? Picture this. We are in a time period where hominids are currently the newest species to have evolved. After hundreds of years, two different species have emerged; apes and Homo Erectus. The apes evolved one way, and the Homo Erectus evolved a different way. Us as humans, then evolved from the Homo Erectus. The apes evolved in a way that they couldn’t speak, and we evolved in a way that we could. Our surroundings were different, so we had to adapt in different ways, and we as humans adapted in a way that allowed us to speak. Now we can exchange ideas like building
Before there was language, there were sounds such as, thunder, wind and animal sounds. As the brain evolved, humans developed the capacity for basic screams and shrieks. They used drums to frighten their enemies. And as further explained by the author, the human brain developed three cognitive abilities which led to the development of language over
I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly—as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink.—An ugly god pitifully dying in a tree (Gardner 22)!
The claim, humans are the only animal that can acquire language has been the subject of much debate as scientists have investigated language use by non-human species. Researchers have taught apes, monkeys, parrots and wild children with various systems of human-like communication. Thus, one might ask, what is human language? According to Ulla Hedeager, A universally accepted definition of language or the criteria for its use does not exist. This is one of the reasons for the disagreement among scientists about whether non-human species can use a language. In nature, researchers find numerous types of communication systems, several of which appear to be unique to their possessors, and one of them is the language of the human species. Basically, the purpose of communication is the preservation, growth, and development of the species (Smith and Miller 1968:265). The ability to exchange information is shared by all communication systems, and a number of non-human systems share some features of human language. The fundamental difference between human and non-human communication is that animals are believed to react instinctively, in a stereotyped and predictable way. Generally, human behavior is under the voluntary control,