The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. Khalil Gibran
We've all heard stories about people who lose one sense and find the other senses become stronger. Someone may lose their sight, for example, and find their sense of hearing becomes more acute. If we take this idea one step further we can begin to understand why the ancient masters taught about the advantage of annihilating the ego and information taken in from our 5 senses. The lesson was to learn to rely on the knowing, the senses that comes from within.
Science tells us that what we see is an illusion. We have a blind spot we never "see" because our minds just fills in the gap as though it never existed. Information taken into the eye is acutally upside down but our minds "correct" that for us as well. Nothing in the universe actually touches so we know our "sense" of touch is an illusion and onjects that appear solid are really not there. To top it all off, 99% of the universe is invisible, not "real" yet we call the .01% reality.
I don't think we can escape the fact that infomation taken in through the senses is faulty or, at the very least, skewed. So how do we come to find Truth? Just close your eyes! Close off the information taken in through your 5 senses. Close off all the details of the world that confuse the mind and sit in the center of your knowing. The answers come from within; they are written there, waiting to be discovered and all we have to do is listen with ears that hear.
We've all heard stories about people who lose one sense and find the other senses become stronger. Someone may lose their sight, for example, and find their sense of hearing becomes more acute. If we take this idea one step further we can begin to understand why the ancient masters taught about the advantage of annihilating the ego and information taken in from our 5 senses. The lesson was to learn to rely on the knowing, the senses that comes from within.
Science tells us that what we see is an illusion. We have a blind spot we never "see" because our minds just fills in the gap as though it never existed. Information taken into the eye is acutally upside down but our minds "correct" that for us as well. Nothing in the universe actually touches so we know our "sense" of touch is an illusion and onjects that appear solid are really not there. To top it all off, 99% of the universe is invisible, not "real" yet we call the .01% reality.
I don't think we can escape the fact that infomation taken in through the senses is faulty or, at the very least, skewed. So how do we come to find Truth? Just close your eyes! Close off the information taken in through your 5 senses. Close off all the details of the world that confuse the mind and sit in the center of your knowing. The answers come from within; they are written there, waiting to be discovered and all we have to do is listen with ears that hear.
