Understanding.
By derek_a
@derek_a (10873)
April 12, 2007 10:55am CST
I cannot understand that which transcends thought. But sometimes, there is a glimpse of an experience that I am "looking at". An experience that is inexplicable because it does transcend thought. But then, I begin to lose the experience because I begin to "understand" and all I am left with is a rationalisation of transcendence and that is merely a memory that will fade.
The truth here I see is that experience is the context of all my mind, and that is something my ego does not want to contemplate.
I need to make peace out of all this. I need to make peace the context, for that is what it truly is. How can peace have an opposite? Even conflict will occur in the context of peace for true peace if absolute acceptance, resisting nothing, not even conflict. Peace engulfs conflict, not the other way round. Peace unravels conflict by patient acceptance and observation allowing it to be until what we are left with is.. Peace.
Does this make sense? I don't know, it's beyond rationality, beyond sense.
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@cdparazo (5765)
• Philippines
26 Jul 07
I too have lots of questions that needs to be answered. However, when I start to unravel them and put words on them, another question or mystery arises that seems to confound me more. Most of the time, I find that it is easier to let things be and not dig dipper. It could be that I am just too lazy. For me, there are indeed a lot of things that are beyond understanding, reason and rationality and to explain them or put them into words would just result in more confusion because for me they are not supposed to be defined because it would just limit them. They are there to be felt and one should bask in it beyond reasons or rationality. I don't want to explain love but I just want to feel it in all it's glory and splendor. To explain it and put it into words somehow diminishes the experience, as you said, and i think words or rational explanations are just sooo inadequate because it is beyond explanation.
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