Deep Surface

Recently I’ve been listened to audio recordings from an obscure non-dual teacher named Mickey. Using several different examples, he proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I have zero knowledge about Truth. This may seem obvious to regular readers, but I’m just coming to understand the depth of my ignorance.

So just how ignorant am I? Well, nearly all of the real-life experiences I have take place within a three foot radius of my body. Even visual experiences are processed and distorted by my mind, so I can’t even say that things I see are experienced “out there.” Everything that this body receives through the senses, for the most part, is filtered through memories of my past and organized according to categories that to create the illusion of safety and predictability.

On this planet, there are billions of other human perspectives, and I can communicate with maybe a small portion of those people. Even if someone else gives me an explicit description of an experience, the words and images used to communicate that perspectives are interpreted through the lens of the mind, - just a collection of programs and layer upon layer of other interpretations.

Even if I was able to really experience every moment of my life without overlaying what I think I know, my perspective is an unbelievably tiny percentage of what’s available on this planet. Add billions of galaxies to the equation, other dimensions, time etc… the statistics are pretty clear. My knowledge of the universe is an infinitely tiny fraction of all there is - so tiny that I might as well know nothing.

I’m not going to stop looking for knowledge and new perspectives, but I’m now more interested in seeing the deepest truth this perspective can offer. I’m committed to dis-identifying with these layers of interpretations, programs and categories so that I might know Truth, and experience the perspective of the Whole.