Hello again all you lovely people in the World.
This past Monday I talked about perception and reality. Now, I have heard people say, "perception is reality." I do not agree.
Perception "OF" reality and the "reality" may be taking place at the same time but the two cannot be the same thing. I keep thinking this, stewing over it, rejecting it, picking it back up, throwing it and stomping on it... because that's what I believe. And I don't mind being wrong if tomorrow or some other day some lovely person out there in the world corrects me. That would take some convincing but I'd take it.
So perception: A judgment resulting from awareness or understanding.
I like that definition so I'm going to use it.
Everyday we make judgments about things and people that are based in the moment of our encounters. For example: cars that speed in traffic. The one who is speeding may perceive that there is empty space that no one else is taking advantage of, and that they'll use it to get to where they need to go faster. While the other drivers perceive an impatient and risky driver who needs to relax, because they are in traffic.
In that moment each witness is making a judgment based on or resulting from there awareness of the situation and/or their understanding of it. I hope that is a simple picture. And I would guess that everyday we do that from one side or the other hundreds of times. "We", being the one who perceive, are all perceiving the "Same" reality. That being the moment and very thing that is taking place.
So about Reality: Something that is neither derivative nor dependent but exist necessarily. Or the short definition: What actually is.
Reality, my friends, cannot be tainted. Because it just is.
The same way we know ourselves "we are" or "we exist" at its basic level, we also see that reality "is". I know my grammer(lol) ain't proper please cut me some slack. Or don't. Because the reality is that I'm still gone write this the way I want, no matter how you perceive it. But I should also say that I desire to present this reality in a way that when you perceive it, you won't have to question it, and that what I present is the closest thing to the same as it can be.
And this is the importance of things as I'm thinking through this right now.
Each one of us and what we do is a reality. Present and past. The reason doesn't necessarily have to matter. The questions about the reality don't always lead to clear answers. We perceive ourselves wrong just as much as we do others. The perception is not the reality although reality is being perceived.
Belief: Believing in a lie doesn't make that lie true. Even if you say "it was true for me in that moment.".... Actually, it was a lie, in reality you believed a lie that was not true, that is the truth.
In the same way we may believe some things we perceived as true. The reality may be different.
Knowledge: Knowing the difference between the two is crucial. When people don't know you and perceive you as what you're not, what do you do? You try to correct it so that they "know" who you are right?
In the same way, we should want to know the reality of a person or thing. Not just how we perceive it. You might not always be wrong or right, but at the least you'll know.
Practice: What you do is reality. And people perceive that. So in everything that you do, be mindful of it. Remember that every one's practice or habits are reasonable in their own mind. Yet, how it is perceived by another is not always so.
Relationships: How do you perceive the relationship you have with a parent, a friend, a teacher, a boss, an object or anything for that matter. A lot of broken relationships come from misunderstanding and false perceptions of the reality. Please my peoples, manage your relationships well.
Among many friends and family lie the perception that things are fine, and in the reality things are not. And we don't always see it clearly, we don't always get the truth. But we should care enough to be sure right.
Communication: We don't always grasp what another person is expressing fully. We don't ask enough questions, we give to much information in answers, we lie, we twist, we ignore, and we smother. We communicate all the time. Not always in the right way, not always in the right time. But we all perceive each other from different places. Don't be afraid to over communicate for the sake of the truth. Appreciate someones effort to communicate. We don't have to yell, but we do have to talk. If nothing else, write it down.
Finance: The poor perceives the rich and the rich perceives the poor and the middle class perceives both and the world perceives them all.
And still they all have similar problems: people die, people lie, people steal, people laugh, people want, people care, people don't, and people will and people wont...... No matter which bracket you fall in. We're all more similar than we think.
Anywho, I know that was long, and my grammar was bad, and it might not have made sense, but that's ok. I'm glad you were able to struggle through this with me. Help me get better. What do you think?
I love Y'all.
Monday is....TOMORROW!!! hahaha wow that's crazy. next topic then....? (Knowing the Way to What You Want)....see you tomorrow i guess.
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