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Coincidentally, what we call being “spiritually awakened” is the self-realizing of our own habitual pattern of mis-perceiving that distorts reality, and therefore, also obscures our own truth. It is this not-knowing of ourselves, based upon all of our assumptions, that is the true source of emotional and existential suffering.
We assume the world is exactly as we’ve been taught and that our personal memory speaks the truth. These are both conscious assumptions that we knowingly make, but what about the countless assumptions the mind makes on our behalf, that we are unconscious of? What are we missing?
For the most part, our lives are virtual, a projection of mind filled with to-do lists, goals and plans, stresses and worries, fears and desires, opinions and knowledge, memories and random thought. We’re so busy with our conceptual lives that we fail to truly experience the actuality of what is here and now.
In other words, we overlook what is real so that we can ponder over what is not.
On a subconscious level, the mind is continually filling in the gaps that exist within our direct experience of the present moment. These assumptions create the fluid continuity of sensory perception, appearing as the environment in which we seem to move, as it has been compiled and pieced together from all of the mind’s prior conditioning, knowledge, memory, and experience.
And so, most of we presume to know is actually an assumption.
For example, I assume a wall exists behind my back, but in my direct and immediate experience, I don’t actually know it as fact. The mind assumes it is there, based on common sense, but I can’t actually confirm it to be true until I turn around and look in its direction.
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