Truth is often viewed as something that can be acquired by reading the right book or hearing the right speech. Books and speeches are readily available, but only the wise know truth when they hear it. The question of how to pursue truth then is not where to find truth, but how to know it when you hear it.
Truth already dwells deep within every individual. However, if ones life is encrusted with stresses, strains, and impurities, that truth will not well up throughout the physiology and conscious awareness. In such a state, even if truth is offered, the individual will not resonate with it. It will not feel right. It will not ring true. It may even be experienced as offensive. The lower vibration that one is accustomed to will not resonate with the higher vibration of truth. Just as the pristine lotus flower rises up through the murky waters, to hear truth one must rise up through the quagmire of small egocentricity, separateness, polarization, and indoctrination.
Through proper meditation, one awakens to the absolute truth that dwells within. As this is done, one’s understanding of kindness, love, integrity, honor, nobility, beauty, justice, etc. raises to a higher level. Understanding deepens and is transformed as one evolves.
Hearing and knowing truth is simply a matter of innocence and purity – and their meanings too transform as one evolves.
Beautiful.
As we refine our physiologies, is sattva perceived as a thin veil covering Truth?
Onward, always onward. :o)
This is a beautiful blog, even though for me truth can sometimes be confusing. The other day you mentioned people can be in limbo for lifetimes, I could feel myself fighting with it inside. There is a part of me that feels like I have to have a constant direction or I feel irrelevant and lost. I sense my thinking is false, but it has a definite hold of me. I read “The Dharma Sutras”and they are beautiful words of wisdom, but I definitely do not embody them. At least being in limbo is pushing me to make peace with it.
so beautiful…you speak in a way that gives such clarity to the most profound knowledge…the world should reading your blogs…
When I’m feeling stressed or strained or I’m purifying, my relationship with everything changes, including my relationship with innocence, purity, and truth. It makes sense that our childhood conditioning and life experiences that have added long-term stress and strain over the years have affected our ability to perceive truth.
It is entertaining that as we are searching for truth, it is already within us; we just cannot perceive it.
Beautiful and refreshing insight on truth. This is so different than our society’s general tendency to equate “truth” with the ever-changing collection of data we call “facts”. This blog elucidates a fuller meaning of the word.
Beautiful. Reading the words, I feel a more at peace. Thank you
Something I ponder quite frequently is having a living human being to learn about Truth with a capital ‘T’. I could pick up a book and call myself “educated” or “self-taught”, but where I want to go requires a delicate under-standing of Truth. The dance of Truth as I know it continues to become more refined the more I meditate and rest into my self. How do I connect the people I love with this? It seems Truth is very elusive…
Kimie,
Truth can be a lonely place…
The last sentence invites more understanding. It seemed that there was an Absolute Truth that we aspire to. But the last sentence seems to indicate that our understanding of what is true changes as we change.
When I read your response I gasped, followed by tears, then sadness. Because deep inside I know this to be true for me.