Don't Solidify in your Worldviews

Every concept is false.

Or at best, more or less accurate in representing truth.

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The moment we start to speak about ‘my ideology’ or ‘my opinion’ or how ‘I view the world’, and we believe without a doubt that we are right, or at least more right than others, we lose touch with reality and solidify ourselves as a separate ego.

It is an odd thing to live in a world with billions of people and to believe that there is such a thing as multiple truths, or that our truth is the right one out of all those billions of truths.

How can there be such a thing as multiple simultaneous truths?

Such a thing is not possible in the laws of this universe; there might be multiple facets to truth, but there can only be one truth.

If my truth and your truth cause a conflict, and become something we argue about,

We have both made a fool out of ourselves.

Believing in the illusion of a seperate 'truth' that can be different from other truths, we become like miniature versions of religions and countries, with boundaries and ideologies that we go to war over with people that we disagree with.

My advice: don't be part of a table where people argue over different truth, trying to prove their right, if you want to preserve your energy.

I am not saying to have no worldviews, or opinions. It is only natural.

But I suggest simply a lighter, wiser way to hold worldviews, one that is rooted in actual understanding and insight.

An inner voice that says, in the midst of its own worldviews:

"This is how I currently see things, with the best of my understanding, and at the same time I know that I don’t know anything, and that I have had many ideas before that I strongly believed in in the past that have been uprooted or even obliterated.

And so everything I believe now could turn out to be absolutely false again.

So learning from my past experiences, I have learned to not hold onto tightly anymore to any worldview.

Knowing that they are fluctuating, moving things.

Constructed by my very limited human mind.

And so there is no opinion I have that I will ever go to war over, to save people from my potential delusion."

That is why Vedanta teaching always points us back to the one thing that we can know, and that is simply the experiential knowledge ‘I am’.

Self-luminous consciousness alone.

This present moment.

Everything else,

Is just a guess.