Thursday, September 2, 2010
Spit...or is it?
What is reality? Is it what you actually think it is. Well consider this, saliva in your mouth is perfectly normal. Sharing a water bottle is just fine. Spit on the ground, thats disgusting!?! Spit and saliva are the exact same thing. Why is it that we think this way? It is because society has told us what is acceptable, what is wrong, what smells good and what taste exquisite. The smell of a rose could actually be the most vile smell in the world, but because we were taught a rose smells good, it smells good. I thought about this and realized that reality can't actually be reached. Our mind is so full of "facts" that we might not be able to process reality. It brings up the famous stoner question; is your red my blue? I honestly feel that it could be because our brain and society tells us so. Enlightenment in Buddhism is actually clearing your head and being set free from what society tells you to believe. It is demonstrated in the movie the Matrix. When Neo sees that the Matrix is just one big computer program. He is set free from the fact that his life is real. Personally, I feel i am not ready to be enlightened or see a bunch of green numbers scrolling up and down. I often ask for the truth, but actual reality might be to heavy for me. Would you take the red pill to see the real truth, or would you take the blue pill and stay in your personal reality?
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I like teh exapmle you used of roses. We were always told that roses are teh most beautiful and fragrant flowers. IF we ahd been brought up differently they may have disgusted us. This is something so little but yet it is completely shaped by society.
ReplyDeleteThe roses is a good example. That also shows the many different societies we are in. There may be a large society, but there are many smaller ones as well, because often times friends and families like the same things. So even little things that people see as "groups" or "cliques" can really be mini-societies.
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