A Horse Leads Me to Water

We all learn how to relate to the world from our experience of relating to the world. If the world was represented by a horse, we could analogously understand how we relate to the world by examining the way we relate to a horse. However, what if our knowledge of how to relate to the horse was actually ignorance that seemed like knowledge? Could that be the case for our knowledge of the world, as well? What about how each person relates to herself? Do we have a mixed up understanding of who we are as individuals? What if we could remove ignorance? Without ignorance what would our knowledge be of the horse, of the world, of ourselves? How would […]

The true nature of the world is not obvious at first glance. We could say it is hidden in plain sight, but the hiding mechanism is so effective that we don’t even realize that it’s there, let alone that it can be removed so that we no longer see anything but true nature. Why does this matter? Well, for many of us, if not most of us, at one time or another we have felt a sense of ongoing or sporadic dissatisfaction or unhappiness with our life experience. As a way to resolve that we imagine that something is wrong with us or that it is others and the social and physical environment that prevents our steady fulfillment. The human […]