Ever-evolving Truth

Posted by Paul Reynolds on Dec 15, 2023 in Blog, Western Insight | Comments Off on Ever-evolving Truth

The ever-evolving truth is far too complicated and fluid and slippery and scrambled and gorgeously abundant for one soul to understand—even for genius bodhisattva avatars. (I have heard rumors that there have been a few such characters.)

I am lucky to have bumped up my personal degree of mastery to about three percent. That’s how much (how little) I understand of the Maddening and Delightful Mystery we are embedded in.

Shocking! I am missing 97 percent of the truth—even though I have always been greedy to learn and experience as much as I can.

Out of necessity, to compensate for my gaping ignorance, I have come up with a strategy to guide me. I formulate amusing, nonbinding hypotheses about what the Great Mystery might be like. Then I collect the experimental data generated as I test my hypotheses. Finally, I observe and analyze the results to determine how well each hypothesis works.

• Does it liberate me from suffering, and does it inspire me to help liberate other creatures from their suffering?

• Does it make me a smarter and kinder and trickier and humbler fool?

• Does it motivate me to embrace what I call the FLUX MOJO? In other words, does it fuel me to overthrow my fixations, cooperate enthusiastically with the never-ending change that life asks me to deal with, and continually reinvent my attitudes, perspectives, ideas, and feelings?

• Does it engender in me a lust for life and a primal urge to respond creatively to the glorious privilege of being alive and conscious?

• Does it fuel my longing to inspire and nurture and play with those who are interested in sharing destiny with me?

Robert Breszny

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