I just heard someone say this, and it is true enough in a rough conventional sense.
We may perceive something that’s not accurate and often do. Most of the time, we may not even notice. And sometimes, life shows us the error in our perception.
A MORE CLOSE LOOK
And yet, it’s not exactly what’s happening.
Our senses don’t trick us, they are innocent.
It’s our stories – about what we sense and anything else – that tricks us.
And it’s not even our stories that trick us. They too are innocent.
We trick ourselves when we naively hold these stories as true.
And we don’t really trick ourselves because, somewhere, we know what’s going on.
EXPLORING WHAT’S GOING ON
We have the wisdom in us, and we can find it by looking a little closer at what’s going on.
We can idenitify the stories we hold as true and find what’s more true for us.
We can explore our sense fields and how our mental representations combine with the other sense fields to create our experience of the world.
We can learn to differentiate our mental representation and what’s here in immediate noticing.
We can notice that our mental representations may be more or less accurate in a conventional sense. That they are different in kind to what they point to. That they help us orient and function in the world. That they cannot hold any full, final, or absolute truth. And that reality is always different from and more than our ideas about it.
DIFFERENTIATING OUR STORIES ABOUT WHAT WE ARE AND DIRECT NOTICING
We can also explore the difference between our ideas about who and what we are, and what we notice directly. In a conventional sense, we are this human self in the world, and that’s not entierly wrong. And when we look more closely, we may find what we more fundamentally are what the world to us happens within and as.
We are the field all our sense experiences, including our mental representations, happen within and as.
We are the field the world, to us, happens within and as.
How is it to live from that noticing, and as that?
DRAFT
I just heard this statement which seems a common view among many.
Our senses don’t trick us. Our senses are innocent.
If anything, it’s our stories that trick us when we naively hold them as true.
Our mind tells itself stories that it then takes as true, that’s how we trick ourselves.
And we don’t really trick ourselves because, somewhere, we know what’s going on.