Perception

All of our knowledge is tainted with our perception. Everything we know is our perception of it. Perception defines what we see, hear and think. A simple proof of this being, when we are caught in a mirage we believe it to be the truth. If that is the case, can we ever know the truth?

I know a man who believes that the earth is flat. He is not an illiterate or an ignorant man. He believes the earth is flat because he believes in a scripture that says ‘The earth is flat.’ I tried, in vain, to convince him that what he sees is not the scripture but his interpretation (perception) of that scripture.

If everything we know is our perception of the truth, if everything we learn is our perception of the fact, we never will really know anything. Wait,….there is something we do learn. We learn more and more about our perception, our mind, and our thoughts. Come to think of it, to know oneself is the only thing one really needs to know.

The mind trap that keeps us from the truth, takes us to the one place that matters and all one needs to do, is to be aware. Everything we do, everything we don’t, everything we think, everything we like is telling us something about us. We only need to listen.