2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Everything in this world is relative. There are no absolute truths. It is impossible to know the world. It is unrealistic to predict the future.
And it seems like you can't argue. But it's only a matter of scale. For example, when I wake up in the morning and make coffee, then I am surrounded entirely by absolute truths. I know that the water in the kettle will boil anyway, I know where to get a spoon, I can imagine how to get sugar with it, and I know the exact result I will achieve. Of course, at any time I can be enslaved by aliens or agents of the State Department. Still, the margin of error is pretty damn small. Too small to give her any attention.
But if we talk not in social and everyday categories, but in abstract philosophical ones, then yes, everything is correct here. "Are you Camo Coming?" and all the bullshit. If we are trying to understand the meaning of life or our purpose, or to find happiness or some kind of absolute, the idea of the relativity of existence will fit perfectly.
Or here's another example. Answer the question "who am I?" If we reduce the scale of the situation to a specific sleepy individual trying to cheer himself up with coffee, then the answer is obvious: I am Ivan Maslennikov, a citizen of the (still) Russian Federation and a psychologist. A Zen teacher would not have been satisfied with such an answer and he would have hit me with a stick, but within the framework of a simple concrete everyday sketch, this answer is more than convenient and meets all the challenges of momentary urgency.
But if you answer the question "who am I?" on the scale of my whole life, or even on the scale of society or in general on the scale of the existence of the universe, the answer "citizen of the Russian Federation" looks delusional, to put it mildly. A decent answer here would be a Buddhist one-handed clap.
Well, or here's another. What is a sense of life? There can be no unequivocal answer. And what is the point of going to the store for bread? The meaning is obvious. That is, I repeat, the meaning and essence of things varies greatly depending on the scale that we set them.
It is the same with good and evil, and with right and wrong. From the point of view of my whole life - there is no good or evil. The world is not black and white, but multifaceted and colorful. Moreover, we never know where our paths lead. Several catastrophic situations in my life have led me to happiness. And some sincere gifts given from the heart - to heavy grief.
But from the point of view of momentary everyday reactions - good and evil in bulk. Everyone has the right way to the store.
But is the “conventionality of all things” necessary and applicable in everyday life? I think it is very necessary. Especially where we are weak, where something does not work out for us. For example, if we have a vivid emotional and painful, but inherently minor conflict with a loved one, it's time to remember that the person next to us is not a “citizen of the Russian Federation”, but the One who walks with us hand in hand through life. And that all conflicts are conditional in their essence. After all, if you are together, then any conflicts are conditional. And if you suddenly find out that in an hour this person will die, then what will be left of your conflict? Nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. And when we are able to see the conventionality of the conflict and the unconditional value of a person nearby, then.. conflicts remain all the same. But they don't hurt anymore.
But it also happens when some citizens of the Russian Federation, having read the literature and practicing yoga, begin to talk about "what is a spoon?", "What is the essence of coffee?" and "entering the kitchen in the morning you cannot know what awaits you there." And to your answer: "Damn, it's just a spoon," they just shake their heads meaningfully and clatter contemptuously. Well, well.. it's time to remember about the conventionality of any conflicts.
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