Conversations on Oneness and Equality 1
What is Oneness and Equality?
Oneness and equality, or equality and oneness, is the basic formula or equation of life, and of our entire existence. It is sometimes called the law of balance or karma. But it goes deeper than that. It is the fundamental part of Life.
For example, take a monkey and a human. Are they one and equal? They are not the same in appearance, no. They are not the same in smell, no. But is one of their appearances, better than the other's? Or is one of their smells, better than the other? I am talking here, fundamentally, objectively, undeniably better? Because I am sure you can Imagine a person having an opinion and say that one smells better or looks better than the other. But that's just an opinion. What is the TRUTH? The truth is that you cannot say as a law or a fact that one IS better or more than the other in any way. You can say however, than one may be stronger than the other in terms of what they can lift or move. You can say that one has certain abilities that the other doesn't have. That can be truths or facts. But is ONE objectively more than the other, in the sense of value, worth, or importance? No, you can't. What will happen though is a person will come along and have an opinion, or will be so blinded by their need of one's ability for a purpose, that they regard that purpose that is fulfilled by one's ability as sufficient enough to say that one is more important or of more value, usually because it serves their interest. Selfishness is a bane to Life and oneness and equality.
Yes, indeed, selfishness or self-interest is a common point where we justify and claim that one living being is more than another because it serves our self-interest. Completely disregarding the actual nature of Life, and its actual state of existing in oneness and equality. There is no life form that is MORE or LESS than another. People will believe that one is more, though the only justification is that they believe it to be the case. You cannot find scientific evidence or anything factual or physical that says one being is more than another.
Let's take a closer look at abilities and appearances. You have the color of the skin as one indication of value. And you have intelligence or retardation as one indication of ability. Tell me, is someone more than another if one is white and the other is black? Or is someone more if one is retarded and one is a genius? What do you say? Based on the knowledge I have of the functioning of the human mind, I will predict that for some of you that have your own knowledge and history, that whatever that was taught to you about the color of one's skin and about intelligence and retardation will be accessed automatically in your mind, no more different that opening up a computer program on my computer. That information becomes you. So your response is entirely based on the information that is stored within you regarding the subject matter. Let me ask you this. What if the information you have has no basis in reality? Meaning that it is not true because it is not based in reality. The question here is how do you determine what is true and what is real? My answer is that you must look into reality and see objectively without influences or biases.
Once you look at reality with such discerning eyes will you be able answer the previous questions correctly, about whether a person that is white is more important than a person that is black, or that a retarded person is more important than a genius.
Perhaps the greatest difficulty, and the greatest skill to acquire for any human is to see with REAL EYES, which means seeing things for how they really are exist without preconception, biases, judgements or belief. Because, it is indeed possible to see a red car and believe you see a blue car, simply because you believe it, as crazy as that sounds. Yet such similar occurrences are so common and so rampant that it becomes unquestionable due to the the large number of humans beings that believe the same lie. Indeed, it can become even dangerous to even pose the question that what someone's believes is not in fact so. Or at the very least it can be construed by a person as insulting, which is another belief in itself, you see?
Indeed, the greatest challenge you will probably face is yourself. Because it is your own beliefs and conceptions about what is right, what is true, what is fact, that limit you. And all this because you haven't thoroughly tested what you hold as true by seeing what is real through testing it out in real moments. Instead what happens is a life of givens, where we take all knowledge spoken to us for granted as the truth. It is the extreme gullibility or cowardice of humans. Why do we dare not question? Why is it insulting to question? Or what do we fear will happen? Punishment, for questioning? This fear alone would beg a change is needed in human everyday life.
One cannot begin to see or understand oneness and equality if one is not honest with oneself. Is all Life one and equal? No one is More than or less than another. That is the first step. The next step is how to practically do this, and live this in your world and reality. This I will continue over the course of this series of blogs. I will go slowly and surely through examples and tests, that I have used for my own collection of evidence which I can trust. Whether you join me on this little journey is your choice. See you in the next one.
Oneness and equality, or equality and oneness, is the basic formula or equation of life, and of our entire existence. It is sometimes called the law of balance or karma. But it goes deeper than that. It is the fundamental part of Life.
For example, take a monkey and a human. Are they one and equal? They are not the same in appearance, no. They are not the same in smell, no. But is one of their appearances, better than the other's? Or is one of their smells, better than the other? I am talking here, fundamentally, objectively, undeniably better? Because I am sure you can Imagine a person having an opinion and say that one smells better or looks better than the other. But that's just an opinion. What is the TRUTH? The truth is that you cannot say as a law or a fact that one IS better or more than the other in any way. You can say however, than one may be stronger than the other in terms of what they can lift or move. You can say that one has certain abilities that the other doesn't have. That can be truths or facts. But is ONE objectively more than the other, in the sense of value, worth, or importance? No, you can't. What will happen though is a person will come along and have an opinion, or will be so blinded by their need of one's ability for a purpose, that they regard that purpose that is fulfilled by one's ability as sufficient enough to say that one is more important or of more value, usually because it serves their interest. Selfishness is a bane to Life and oneness and equality.
Yes, indeed, selfishness or self-interest is a common point where we justify and claim that one living being is more than another because it serves our self-interest. Completely disregarding the actual nature of Life, and its actual state of existing in oneness and equality. There is no life form that is MORE or LESS than another. People will believe that one is more, though the only justification is that they believe it to be the case. You cannot find scientific evidence or anything factual or physical that says one being is more than another.
Let's take a closer look at abilities and appearances. You have the color of the skin as one indication of value. And you have intelligence or retardation as one indication of ability. Tell me, is someone more than another if one is white and the other is black? Or is someone more if one is retarded and one is a genius? What do you say? Based on the knowledge I have of the functioning of the human mind, I will predict that for some of you that have your own knowledge and history, that whatever that was taught to you about the color of one's skin and about intelligence and retardation will be accessed automatically in your mind, no more different that opening up a computer program on my computer. That information becomes you. So your response is entirely based on the information that is stored within you regarding the subject matter. Let me ask you this. What if the information you have has no basis in reality? Meaning that it is not true because it is not based in reality. The question here is how do you determine what is true and what is real? My answer is that you must look into reality and see objectively without influences or biases.
Once you look at reality with such discerning eyes will you be able answer the previous questions correctly, about whether a person that is white is more important than a person that is black, or that a retarded person is more important than a genius.
Perhaps the greatest difficulty, and the greatest skill to acquire for any human is to see with REAL EYES, which means seeing things for how they really are exist without preconception, biases, judgements or belief. Because, it is indeed possible to see a red car and believe you see a blue car, simply because you believe it, as crazy as that sounds. Yet such similar occurrences are so common and so rampant that it becomes unquestionable due to the the large number of humans beings that believe the same lie. Indeed, it can become even dangerous to even pose the question that what someone's believes is not in fact so. Or at the very least it can be construed by a person as insulting, which is another belief in itself, you see?
Indeed, the greatest challenge you will probably face is yourself. Because it is your own beliefs and conceptions about what is right, what is true, what is fact, that limit you. And all this because you haven't thoroughly tested what you hold as true by seeing what is real through testing it out in real moments. Instead what happens is a life of givens, where we take all knowledge spoken to us for granted as the truth. It is the extreme gullibility or cowardice of humans. Why do we dare not question? Why is it insulting to question? Or what do we fear will happen? Punishment, for questioning? This fear alone would beg a change is needed in human everyday life.
One cannot begin to see or understand oneness and equality if one is not honest with oneself. Is all Life one and equal? No one is More than or less than another. That is the first step. The next step is how to practically do this, and live this in your world and reality. This I will continue over the course of this series of blogs. I will go slowly and surely through examples and tests, that I have used for my own collection of evidence which I can trust. Whether you join me on this little journey is your choice. See you in the next one.
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