The Nature of Disagreement
Posted on Mar 4th, 2006
by 
Rob
Rob
A quick messy doodle:
the paths all converge as we get closer to the top.
Jesus is speaking to a different crowd than Buddha...so the direction he gives is going to be catered to folks over on the left side of the mountain....while Buddha, teaching the same thing, is going to cater his instructions according to the terrain on the right side of the hill.
We're all starting with a different limited scope of awareness.
The higher up we go, the greater our perspective becomes, AND the more similar it becomes to those traversing on the nearby paths which eventually converge with ours anyway.
There's lots of disagreement between the folks at the bottom about what one must do to reach enlightenment/absolute truth...
At the top, the whole mountain is a part of enlightenment though...so all the paths are right.
-Rob
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January 2008
Love it Rob. It reminded me of something I often think about.
Everybody is just as sure that their truth is as right as ours is. In fact everyones truth is just as real to them as ours is to us. So the conclusion is obvious, we all must be wrong, isn’t that the essence of wisdom? A recognition that we are all full of shit(-:
Love the cute drawings(-:
V.
lol, we’re all wrong? possibly…or just not totally right…either way, we have to forgive eachother for our inherent inability to tell truth from falsehood with any degree of accuracy.
It’s so tough to tell what we think we see from what we actually see, that I’m reminded of a quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj:
“In our ignorance we are innocent, in our actions we are guilty. We sin without knowing and suffer without understanding. Our only hope; to stop, to look, to understand and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.”
Mostly the first part is relevant…but I dig the rest of it too…in the context it’s given in.
-Rob
Some humble hearts have the selflessness to recognize truth that isn’t their own, and yet are allowed access to. So whatever free will moves others to say in judgement of those ones doesn’t change the experience of the presence of said truth, respectively.
our humble compassion
Ah yes, absolute truth and relative truths.
Quite the dance we are all a part of. Always partial and whole in every moment, humbled and exaulted, human and divine, one and yet two…not one and yet not two.
A dance that takes a truly humble heart to navigate.
V.