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The Great Paradox: Waking Up
by Jose Andres Arvide
filmsforaction.org
In an age where “waking up, awareness, higher consciousness, illumination,” are terms commonly used to denote the state of mind of somebody who is certainly mindful, it seems that achieving this is all we want. We refer to people as conscious, aware, or somebody who has woke up or illuminated, but essentially, what does these terms really mean? What does waking up and being more aware than I was yesterday mean? Is Marc, who discovered that the political party that was elected is corrupt more aware than Joseph, who studied the different options and voted for this political party thinking it was the best and most honest?
It seems that these terms are all misleading, just as any other term, for words are merely conventions and conventions as Alan Watts indicates in his book The Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, are simply used depending on social convenience.
“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money … but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth … In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are “coins” for real things.”
Every Day is Earth Day
Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/12/the-great-paradox-waking-up.html
