“No Two people can share the exact same journey in life. Even those who walk a path side by side don’t walk the path with the same companion. In this regard, my way is my own” -Vin Armani Tao of the Gigolo
If a picture is worth a thousand words, would your thousand words be the same as someone else’s?
If the picture was moving like in a movie, how many different words would there be?
If you watch a movie with a friend, you can get two different responses.
Could we even agree on the same words?
Could we even agree that we saw the same movie?
“The truth can’t belong to anyone. The truth point where the truth became clear. Now that I have seen such truths I can tell you what I’ve seen. The truth can never be fully described, it can only be experienced. My hope is that my meager descriptions of the truth I have experienced will be motivation enough for you to travel the way and experience the truth for yourself.” -Vin Armani Tao of the Gigolo
Much like walking a path and coming upon a boulder, the boulder isn’t owned by anyone. The boulder has been there and will remain there. Even if you decide to change the boulder, it will be a different boulder than the one when you first perceived it.
If you leave and the weather erodes the boulder, someone else will see a different boulder.
The Truth is much like this boulder.
Or much like a river, where the water you see is not the same water that you saw.
As the saying goes, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” -Heraclitus. Just as the territory, the reality, the truth changes. So too does the observer change with the changing of the thing being observed.
Even with words to try and map out and model what you’ve seen. You’d fall short. The words themselves are not enough to recreate the entirety of boulders, valleys, lakes, rivers, and mountains.
Think about the tale of the blind men describing an elephant. There were five blind men and they went to go see an elephant for the first time. They each only examined different parts; the trunk, the tusk, the body, the tail, and the flapping ears. They will all speak their truths and be correct, even if they’re conflicting Truths with eachother.
One blind man that only feels the tusk will argue vehemently that the elephant is hard. While another blind man that feels only the tail will argue that it is soft and thin. These men argue over their perceived subjective observations of truth.
The metaphor of blindness is that there is ignorance among those that recant their own truth and yet refuse to listen to the others. The metaphor of the elephant is that the objective truth is always in the room and it’s very large and big, almost imperceptibly so. Hence relating to a similar saying ‘the elephant in the room’.
We would go far to defend our truth.
Arguments and miscommunication over truth if given enough time will devolve into conflict and action. This results in wars and deaths, violence. When you disagree so badly that it affects your emotional needs to feel safe or your capacity or ability to survive, then you ask yourself if your life is worth more or less than the need to defend yourself. Even if you so choose to defend yourself premptively by striking.
Miscommunication breeds violence.
I’d like to pass onto you a Hawaiian Proverb
That proverb is “The Big Kahuna is one that can hold multiple truths at the same time”.
Here is a picture to show the differences that people may see;
You do not own the truth. The truth is merely revealed to you. -And even with that, you don’t see the whole thing, and you see a different version than what someone else has seen. You may see more than others, you may see less than others.
And yet it (the truth) can be so much more than what we even see, there may be even more things;
There are many truths to a situation, many ‘sides’ to a story. It is important for us to hear what others are saying so that they may speak their truth and to discern what is true from everyone’s stories.
Some people, lie, and that obscures the truth. So you must learn and weed out the false illusions from the truth to ensure you are navigating accurately into the next decision or actions. Making judgments or decisions based on bad data will lead to unexpected results which can be either positive or negative. The results may likely be outside your intended future, so be aware.
So the Big Kahuna, can entertain many truths, they can see and hear and place themselves in the shoes of the story tellers. Doing so helps to understand one another. To see the other sides. To be empathetic.
In another way (with words),
The map is not the territory.
A map that is the same size of the territory is useless. A Map that is larger than the territory itself can help pin point areas. A Map that is smaller than the territory can help navigate and be carried around.
But walking on the map is not the same as traversing the actual territory. Crossing a mountain with dotted lines on a map is not the same as climbing and scaling the actual mountain.
As Such,
The description of the truth is not the truth itself.
And when we talk about words and their meaning.
The word is not the truth, it merely is a sign that points or refers to the truth. The Word is much like a description, a map, a model, a sign.
The word ‘water’ is not something you can drink. You can’t bathe in the word ‘water’ nor can you make tea or use the word as if it was the real thing itself.
Thusly, all words have their meaning which references things or concepts.
Those things or concepts are themselves a form of existence.
As words are forms, things and concepts are forms too.
In a way, all words are synonyms that point to other words.
The word ‘water’ points to the being ‘water’ which both are technically words. . .
But that’s a concept that we’ll have to bridge another day. I’ll leave it as a riddle for now.
Epilogue,
I hope this was an interesting dive into truth. I can go on and on about truth and how our lives are connected in some ways to these concepts and vibrational energies.
I just want to leave you with a big nugget of truth;
The Ultimate Truth Denies Nothing
Maybe you can chew on that phrase or co-op it into your own mantra, also remember my little mantra;
Words Mean Things.
Words Mean Things 