Mind's Eye Re: Are You A Human Being ?

Truth ... *sigh* ... is not in what we pick up in the book, what Momma says, what 'great' men seem or say, not even in what I feel or think or know ... it is first and foremost in what I see and know of my self, sans thoughts and meanings... in the way I am, within the body-mind structure, and their sub-structures, the subconscious qualifications and attributes that pre-load me and form and shape my emotions and will, my thoughts and meanings, the knowledge I think I know, and the very idea I have of myself. 

It's only after we've covered that distance upto ourself ... do we get the perspective of the universal structures, material and mental, and its very cause. 

Truth ... is NEVER contradicted. One may be superseded by a higher, more fundamental or universal one, but never contradicted.

There may not be a truth in our knowledge to accord with that rigorous definition ! Even gravity gets contradicted by a little sprout ... it grows upward !

On Friday, August 10, 2012 1:35:36 PM UTC+5:30, Vam wrote:

How exactly do you specify that ? Being Human, that is...

Put aside the biologist telling you of your classification or the scientist detailing the features... What exactly tells that you are a human being, apart from the rest of the animal kind ? 

I know it is easy to go frivolous, or quote the millions of texts in the library. But what does it mean to you, that you can vouch for, pointedly ?

What sets me apart is my capacity to know, to engage single-minded in that process of discovery of what I seek to know, one after another, and to be able to tell myself what I do know, its how and why, and share it with others. The knowing leads me everywhere... into the universe, the earth, environment, other beings and things, language, arts, economics, values system, and myself.

The next important capacity is to love other people, not just my own offspring, not just for people's utility value or until they are useful to me, but precisely because of the lifetime of knowing they represent, and for the values they embody on account of what they know. In fact, love isn't just directed towards individuals... it invariably includes the "good," life and growth, light, greenery, panorama, beauty, truth, honesty, freedom, expression... and much of what the universe itself is.

What else or more, as it is with you ?

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