Is reality more about an orientation? Like depending on where we are looking at it from we may see a beautiful wild landscape or see a cluttered mess that needs some proper landscaping. Our ideas of beauty may be aligned by perspective. In one culture eyes with liners are beautiful in another they look strange. Our tastes seem to be aligned by perspective too. In one culture lots of chillies in the food makes it extremely tasty in another it renders the food inedible. So that all there is to it? Our orientation and perspective?
Well there are some basic things that are real for all however we may see things. For the wild landscape, it is true that there are trees and there is grass there. It is also probably true that the air has dust and pollen in it. For the eyes it is true that there is something around the eyes. For the food it is true that there are chillies in the food. The chillies provide vitamins and in reality have the same chemicals. What changes in each case is how the mind interprets each signal the body produces. In the landscape, the mind may see it as clutter, may feel suffocated thinking about the dust and pollen, or may take a deep breath stretch out the arms and take in the beauty of the moment.
How is it that despite the same physical inputs and similar physical constitution we can interpret it so differently? Conditioning and context may be an answer put forward by some. But two children born and raised in identical situations tend to interpret the same inputs differently. Sure, there is an element of conditioning but even how a child interprets the conditioning inputs differs. One child may resent and rebel against a spanking, the other may cower in a corner, and still another may rebel but give up soon and go into cower mode.
There seems to be something each human that is unique that allows him or her to even interpret the conditioning and context they grow up into differently. Perhaps this is the soul that unique X factor within each human that makes me, me and not you and vice versa. How do we get this unique element? Is it just in our DNA and just a result of generations of different conditionings and contexts arranged uniquely for each individual? That is certainly a possibility. However, that could also imply that at the very beginning, in essence, below all the generational layer, there is one, there is unity and that is all that there really was and that is what really is in essence. However, it could be questioned if we are the essential oneness or that the layers of conditioning are in fact what makes us, us?
Well there are some basic things that are real for all however we may see things. For the wild landscape, it is true that there are trees and there is grass there. It is also probably true that the air has dust and pollen in it. For the eyes it is true that there is something around the eyes. For the food it is true that there are chillies in the food. The chillies provide vitamins and in reality have the same chemicals. What changes in each case is how the mind interprets each signal the body produces. In the landscape, the mind may see it as clutter, may feel suffocated thinking about the dust and pollen, or may take a deep breath stretch out the arms and take in the beauty of the moment.
How is it that despite the same physical inputs and similar physical constitution we can interpret it so differently? Conditioning and context may be an answer put forward by some. But two children born and raised in identical situations tend to interpret the same inputs differently. Sure, there is an element of conditioning but even how a child interprets the conditioning inputs differs. One child may resent and rebel against a spanking, the other may cower in a corner, and still another may rebel but give up soon and go into cower mode.
There seems to be something each human that is unique that allows him or her to even interpret the conditioning and context they grow up into differently. Perhaps this is the soul that unique X factor within each human that makes me, me and not you and vice versa. How do we get this unique element? Is it just in our DNA and just a result of generations of different conditionings and contexts arranged uniquely for each individual? That is certainly a possibility. However, that could also imply that at the very beginning, in essence, below all the generational layer, there is one, there is unity and that is all that there really was and that is what really is in essence. However, it could be questioned if we are the essential oneness or that the layers of conditioning are in fact what makes us, us?
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