the ONLY truth
if you can afford only one truth what should it be?1
the only truth is YOU
everything else is epistemology
your existence simply perceives every other truth.
but your perception is often deceiving you as shown by gestalt’s psychology.
you’re not able to always delineate between your mental strata of beliefs, emotions, desires, and knowledge, giving you the illusion of truth. this is the theory of mind.
without the ultimate truth,
without you,
nothing exists. what you perceive is construed.
truisms, reality, conviction, victimhood, all of it is your brain’s output2
samkhya philosophy - the juxtapostion of purusha (your consciousness) and prakriti (everything else) - gave birth to yoga and meditation, as well as strongly influenced vedas, upanishads, and hinduism. it essentially explains the truth through you.
one can peruse physics, metaphysics, and philosophy without this realization
and they would be happy and sad in all the normal ways.
the existential joy however lies in witnessing yourself without the unrelenting smog of thought.
in consciousness meeting with nothingness.
stripped of every thought,
every belonging,
every distraction,
every instinct, indulgence, and despair
at least for a few moments of solitude
to finally come home to yourself.
not proposing any philosophical isms, although what i am saying here is going to sound like solipsism. in any case, here’s col. jessup for ya.
going back to the famous thought experiment: if a tree fell and no one was around to hear it, did the tree actually make a sound?
air waves did vibrate as it fell. although no one with an ear was around, in absolute reality the tree did fall and it did make a sound. but hang on. that’s not sound if no ear perceived it. it’s just air waves. the notion of sound is merely a perception of auditory brain cells evolved from amino acids on earth. you could possibly imagine other forms of life in the universe that doesn’t have this skill. so, was there a sound?