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I know nothing

Posted on by philipdodson

What do we really know to be so?

Our mind comes up with endless thoughts on almost every thing and every person, yet what is it all based on?

We convince ourselves that things are as we see it and the mind searches for anything to back these views.

What if we choose to say ‘I know nothing about that’?

We don’t have to have a view or form one. We can just choose to not know.

This would change a great deal of conflict where one mind is arguing with another mind, where both minds are convinced they know something. However, in reality, they know little other than what their mind has made up for them.

Just acknowledge

Posted on by philipdodson

Every one of us thinks in our mind that we are always right.

Yet all of us can not be right all the time, because, in my mind, my ego tells me that you are wrong at the same time someone else believes they are right and therefore I must be wrong.

Why have humans not realised that we can not be right all the time and others always wrong? It’s not possible.

Simple, our ego will not allow us to be wrong. Even if we reluctantly accept that we are wrong and say so out loud, deep down the mind will work its magic to convince itself that it was still right, there were factors that made us temporarily make an error but we were still right.

The fact is, to our true essence and self, right or wrong does not matter. Yet we waste so much energy and focus on being right, all the time.

Perhaps we can just choose to neither agree nor disagree and just acknowledge the other person but not pass a judgement. Imagine how quickly conflict would go away.