Mysterious reality
It is hard to believe that what we see in the present moment is not exactly what the object is. That is a warning from science. We have great faith in scientific achievements, but science still recognizes itself as having many limitations, especially the confusion leading to the ontological crisis of our world. Science does not yet know exactly what the nature of all phenomena actually is, and what conditions they converge on to manifest. Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, stated: “What we know about reality is because it appears exactly as we see it. Reality as it is, we can never know as a scientific understanding.” David Bohm, an outstanding American quantum scientist, also agreed with the above opinion and added: “The electron particles that we (scientists) see suddenly appear and change structure continuously. because they are controlled by the quantum potential.” And according to David Bohm, this quantum field is not limited by space, it contains a mind containing consciousness and affects each other instantaneously.
Thus, what we consider to be correct only has relative value in human perception. And that rightness is again limited by each person’s level and time because reality is always moving and connected, and we advocate being fixed and isolated The river is certainly far from the fish’s understanding. And a person who is thirsty looking at the river is not the same as a person sitting on a yacht or a person who wants to hydropower business A certain poet said that “Only the river understands “But I’m not sure. Because I don’t understand much about myself. When I love, I see different. When I hate, I see differently. When I’m happy, I see differently. When I’m sad, I see differently. And of course the view of an artist is very different from the view of a businessman, the view of a spiritualist is very different from the view of a politician. So what is the most correct view? There is no single most correct view. Living in a relative world, we must accept the relative view. That is also the reason why we can only have relative happiness, meaning happiness is always conditioned. Only when we have the ability to overcome the afflictions that protect this mistaken self as separate and accept everything in the universe as our own life will we have a transcendent level of awareness and true to reality.
Yet we always consider ourselves talented and know everything. What about getting a PhD? Do we know where our anger comes from and what forces are controlled by it? Are our understandings of our inner world a matter of unreality? Does it directly affect the quality of our lives? Isn’t it unfair to sacrifice all those years just to grasp things that are still in the luck of circumstances? Even more unfair is living in the middle of something fake that we suspect is real or living in the middle of something real that we suspect is fake.
Rejecting the truth
In ancient Indian Buddhist stories, there is a tragic story like this. There was a merchant who was very rich, but his wife died early and left him with a son. Because he was busy doing business far away, he had to ask the people working at home to take care of his children. One day, robbers attacked and burned the village, killing many people in the fire, including his son. After cremation, he took some of the child’s bones and ashes and put them in a brocade bag. He carried it with him every night and took it out to mourn. Suddenly one night outside, there was a baby’s voice claiming to be his son. But he thought it was a ghost or the village children came to make trouble, so he refused to open the door. In fact, his child was only taken by bandits and taken back to the forest, while the burned child he cried for was another child in the village. But he will never know the truth when his doubts close his heart and push his child away in despair.
The story Life always has stories like that. Sometimes the truth has come knocking on the door but we still refuse to open the door. Because we still firmly believe that our judgments are completely correct. It is the attitude of stubbornly clinging to old accumulated knowledge and experience to look at a new reality.
Darkness of doubt
< p>When we do not understand the truth, we easily develop a skeptical attitude as a reaction to protect our selfish ego. Because most of our suspicions are that the other person might be a bad person, but we rarely suspect the opposite. While the nature of doubt is just an attitude of wondering and speculating or trying to pose other possible hypotheses; So that is also a good opportunity for us to embark on the process of discovering more truths about that object. But our “classic” habit is that when we suspect something, we are almost convinced it is the truth and do not want to learn or explore further. Even when we are provided with information that has a clear basis to help us better understand that subject, we still do not easily open our hearts to accept it. I always think: “It’s easy to navigate the river and sea. Who can use a ruler to measure people’s hearts? We turn the reminder to be careful when placing our trust into an immutable mantra to cover up our fear of weakness and irresponsibility. So sometimes the truth appears, but we are immersed in uncomfortable emotions and constant delusions created by ourselves.
The more comfortable we live in, the more our internal strength increases. weaker. Our ability to observe keenly to determine right from wrong is no longer as sharp as it used to be. We have placed too much of our life outside, hoping for too many conditions of happiness from other objects, so we are always afraid that adversity and adversity will strike. If we have ever been deceived or messed around in business or political activities, it is easy for us to form the habit of being wary of all subjects, even our loved ones. Even when the other person doesn’t have any suspicious signs, they are very good and cute, we know that but don’t understand why we still can’t resist our habit of being suspicious. I think it’s better to be wrong than to believe. But actually that is a huge mistake of the psychological mechanism. If left untreated, sooner or later it will progress to more serious levels such as judgment or slander. While a person with strong internal strength will never suspect others of doing bad things to them because they have the ability to calmly respond to all changes.
And what if suspicions arise? What if mine is completely true? It seems we are trying to expose the other person’s weaknesses or clumsiness so that we can stay away or encourage others to boycott them, not to understand and love them more. Most of our doubts are aimed at satisfying our ego, even when we are acting in the name of a group or community. So has there ever been a time when, in the name of morality or compassion, we pay attention to beautiful things to praise while we still silently observe and seek to help those suspicious manifestations? Why don’t we maintain respect for that person even though we have doubts about them? Why don’t we wonder if that person is so worthy of our suspicion or because we have too much doubt? Why don’t we dare to stand up and apologize when we discover that we have been wrongly suspected? Therefore, doubting often only makes us weaker and more cowardly.
Actually, doubting is not necessarily a bad mental action. In the meditation tradition, yogis must know how to question their own afflictions or all phenomena that occur right before their eyes without absolutely believing in the successful experiences of previous masters. “Great doubt, great enlightenment” The greater the doubt, the greater the enlightenment. Because the more you doubt, the stronger your discovery will be, leaving behind your framed views. Only rarely do meditators ask for help from a Zen master with very carefully filtered questions.
Therefore, a meditator is always responsible for his or her doubts once raised. Go ahead and find the right answer instead of throwing it away and then five or ten years later it will still be the same. The meditator’s doubts are always restless but full of freedom, completely different from the disease of doubt to protect the weak ego, fear and irresponsibility of those who have a hobby of finding other people’s mistakes.< /p>
Light the meditation lamp
Keep your mind sacred
Look at life with the right view
Understand the night of your heart.
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Minh Niem
Excerpt book“Understanding the Heart”
According to Firstnew
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